Despite the low Rotten Tomatoes score, the fanboys came out to see the new Sony Venom movie starring Tom Hardy as the flick netted the Thursday advanced previews box office record.
Venom nabbed $10 million domestically, which beat out Paranormal Activity 3’s $8 million back in 2011 for Thursday, with that film going on to open to over $56 million.
It’s has been estimated that Venom will have an opening box office of around $65 million, which is in line with Sony’s first Amazing Spider-Man, but Sony has actually estimated it a bit lower at $55 million.
For a comparison, Amazing Spider-Man 2 opened with $15.4 million for its Thursday night preview and went on to bring in $91.6 million for its opening weekend.
The first Amazing Spider-Man actually kicked off on a Tuesday, so it’s harder to compare the opening to Venom.
Marvel Studios Ant-Man and the Wasp recently had an $11.5 million Thursday and went on to open with $75.8 million.
I’ll probably go see Venom tonight, and I am trying to stay away from online comments and negative reviews and go in with an open mind.
Venom
Venom gets released October 5 directed by Ruben Fleischer starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze and Reid Scott, with a script by Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, and Kelly Marcel. The producers include Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and Amy Pascal, with executive producers including David Householter, Stan Lee, Kelly Marcel, Tom Hardy, Edward Cheng and Howard Chen.
The film is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for language.
One of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters takes center stage as Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) becomes the host for the alien symbiote Venom. As a journalist, Eddie has been trying to take down the notorious founder of the Life Foundation, genius Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) – and that obsession ruined his career and his relationship with his girlfriend, Anne Weying (Michelle Williams). Upon investigating one of Drake’s experiments, the alien Venom merges with Eddie’s body, and he suddenly has incredible new superpowers, as well as the chance to do just about whatever he wants. Twisted, dark, unpredictable, and fueled by rage, Venom leaves Eddie wrestling to control dangerous abilities that he also finds empowering and intoxicating. As Eddie and Venom need each other to get what they’re looking for,
