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Venom: The Last Dance struggled at the domestic box office, but had no trouble coming in No. 1 both domestically and globally. The final title in Sony’s franchise — based on the popular comic book antihero — opened to $51 million from 4,131 theaters in North America, well behind an expected $65 million, or the $90 million domestic launch of Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
Paramount and Temple Hill’s Smile 2 placed second in its sophomore outing, falling 59 percent to $9.4 million for a 10-day domestic total of $40.7 million.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 27, are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venom: The Last Dance | Sony | $51,000,000 | 4,131 | $12,346 | $51,000,000 | |
| 2 | Smile 2 | Paramount | $9,400,000 | 3,624 | $2,594 | $40,714,005 | -59% |
| 3 | Conclave | Focus Features | $6,500,000 | 1,753 | $3,708 | $6,500,000 | |
| 3 | Wild Robot, The | Universal | $6,500,000 | 3,427 | $1,897 | $111,368,270 | -36% |
| 4 | We Live in Time | A24 | $4,848,132 | 2,968 | $1,633 | $11,760,401 | 15% |
| 5 | Terrifier 3 | Iconic Events | $4,271,507 | 2,720 | $1,570 | $43,138,946 | -54% |
| 6 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Warner Bros. | $3,230,000 | 2,874 | $1,124 | $288,743,942 | -35% |
| 7 | Anora | Neon Rated | $867,142 | 34 | $25,504 | $1,619,582 | 58% |
| 8 | Piece by Piece | Focus Features | $720,000 | 1,298 | $555 | $8,882,890 | -65% |
| 8 | Transformers One | Paramount | $720,000 | 1,422 | $506 | $57,946,270 | -64% |
| 9 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Warner Bros. | $600,000 | 1,243 | $483 | $57,833,073 | -72% |
| 10 | Saturday Night | Sony | $575,000 | 1,151 | $500 | $8,876,926 | -66% |
