The battle of the symbiotes continues its box office carnage.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage this weekend became only the second film in the pandemic era to top the $200-million threshold in the U.S. and Canada, according to a report on Deadline. The only other movie in that rarefied air? Another Marvel product–Shang–Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Estimates have Carnage on pace to earn $3.7 million domestically this weekend–the film’s seventh weekend–pushing its total to more than $202 million by the end of Sunday. Worldwide, the sequel to the 2018 Marvel Comics-themed horror hit is expected to pass $430 million by the close of the weekend.
Carnage enjoyed the best three-day opening of the pandemic, with a $90-million debut early last month. The Sony Pictures film hit the $100-million mark in just five days.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage–directed by Andy Serkis from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel–follows Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), the host of the symbiote Venom, as he clashes with another symbiote, Carnage, inhabiting the body of serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson).
The Marvel Comics Venom character was introduced as a living alien costume back in 1984 in The Amazing Spider–Man No. 252, with Carnage making his debut in 1992 in issue No. 361 of that same Spidey title.
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