Venom: Let There Be Carnage Debuts with $90.1 Million at Domestic Box Office, Beating Black Widow’s Pandemic Opening Record

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Sony Pictures has been cautiously optimistic about the performance of Venom: Let There Be Carnage due to the pandemic, shifting its release dates left and right, but it turns out that the studio didn’t really have anything to worry about. The antihero film starring Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson managed to score $90.1 million in the domestic box office in its first weekend, beating not only initial projections but the $80.2 million opening of the original. The earnings actually put Venom: Let There Be Carnage above Black Widow, which held the previous pandemic US/Canada record with $80.2 million.



Venom: Let There Be Carnage’s performance has also made it one of the best-performing films for the month of October, according to Deadline:



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