Box Office: Tom Hardy's 'Venom 2' & Marvel's 'Shang Chi' are making all the money, globally!
Marvel's 'Shang Chi' and Sony's 'Venom 2' are the only two movies to do well at the box office, globally
Tom Hardy's got some loyal fans globally.
The Hollywood star's sequel to 'Venom' (2018), 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage', is reportedly set to cross making over $200 million at the American box office this weekend. Thus, becoming the second film to achieve this feat in the pandemic era after 'Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings', reports claim.
On Friday alone, the film raked in $199.7 million--with global collection being $427.3 million--and is expected to cross another $1 million on its home turf, becoming only the second movie to hit the $200-million mark amid Covid-19.
'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' was released by Sony Pictures.
Yet another movie doing phenomenally well at the box office is Marvel Studios' 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', with a total earning of $224.2 million in North America (approx, as per reports).
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Interestingly, both 'Shang-Chi' and 'Venom 2' got theaters-only releases, thereby clearly indicating that a theatre-first release is still the only sure-shot way to bring in the big bucks.
"There's a growing realization that the exclusive theatrical window works. It's not speculation anymore; it's fact. The only thing that's surprising is that it's surprising to people," Tom Rothman, Sony Motion Picture Group CEO, had previously told a news portal.
It is worth noting that Sony Pictures changed the release date of 'Venom 2' following the success of 'Shang-Chi' successful run at the box office in its opening weekend in September, which had surpassed all box-office predictions and went on to become the second-best debut of the pandemic. The first one being Scarlett Johansson's hybrid release, 'Black Widow'.
Tom Hardy-led 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage'marked its own record as well: bringing in $90.1 million in its opening weekend, the biggest opening since the start of the pandemic era.