Box Office: ‘Eternals’ Nears ‘Dune’ As ‘Venom’ Passes ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’



Kingo, Sersi, and Sprite are in the movie Eternals. The photo was taken bySophie Mutevelian. All rights are reserved.

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In holdover news for the weekend, Eternals earned $10.825 million in its third weekend, taking a sharper drop than the likes of Black Widow, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Ant-Man and the Wasp. Ghostbusters: Afterlife opened to $44 million and took some of the family audience from Eternals. The latest fantasy has made $135.8 million. Eternals will be at $166 million by the end of the weekend, or just above No Time to Die and A Quiet Place part II, if the performance of The Dark World is any indication.

If only by default, the news is better overseas. It earned another $33.5 million worldwide, including a 45% overseas hold, for a total of $336.1 million. The poorly-reviewed epic should end up with around $415 million global and pass Black Widow, which is $380 million. It's a question of how well it holds up against Encanto over Thanksgiving weekend. It may not be a disaster, but it is not a rousing victory. This year's top domestic grosser is Shang-Chi, and it is a crowd-pleasing favorite.

Izaac Wang, Jack Whitehall and Darby Camp are in a movie.

Paramount.

The film earned another $8.1 million in the second weekend, taking a hit from Ghostbusters: Afterlife and finishing with $33.513 million domestic. Warner Bros. and Legendary's Dune earned another 3.065 million in the five day period, for a new $98.2 million total. It will pass $100 million domestic over Thanksgiving, but how much farther it will go depends on its place in this year's awards race. The $165 million sci-fi fantasy has earned $367 million worldwide, with a likely end-point of $385 million.

Eddie Brock is played by Tom Hardy in 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage'.

Sony.

Sony's Venom: Let There Be Carnage earned over $2 million in the eight-day period, bringing its domestic and global totals to $206.47 million and $450 million, respectively. It has passed the domestic grosses of The Dark World, Bad Boys for Life, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Unless Venom gets a last-minute Chinese release date, it should end with a domestic gross of $213.5 million and a worldwide gross of $500 million. That is a remarkable achievement, even without a Covid curve.

Daniel Craig and Lashana Lynch are in a movie.

The MGM.

No Time to Die was the biggest Hollywood grosser since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in December. The $589 million overseas box office is larger than anything out of Hollywood since Frozen II in November of 2019. The 25th official James Bond movie earned another $2.706 million in the seven day period ending on Sunday. MGM, EON and Universal's $250 million action movie has made over a billion dollars. It should end up with around $161 million domestic and $775 million worldwide.