After Venom2 galvanizes the box office, what's next for movie theaters?
” has been the loudest indication yet that maybe, just maybe, the movie theater business can rebound from COVID-19 wreckage., a debut that’s impressively reminiscent of opening weekends prior to the global health crisis. It’s the biggest three-day haul for a pandemic-era release, ranking ahead of “Black Widow” , “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “F9: The Fast Saga” .
In some ways, the latest Bond entry, “Dune,” as well as Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and “The Matrix: Resurrections” — tentpoles that don’t revolve around superheroes — will be a better test to determine the industry’s overall health. Already, “No Time to Die” has galvanized moviegoers at the international box office, where the 007 adventure has generated aIn the case of “Venom,” its status as a comic book sequel doesn’t mean its box office success was preordained.
Timing also played a huge factor. It had been weeks since “Shang-Chi” opened over Labor Day weekend and, until this weekend, the Marvel adventure ruled over box office charts without any real competition. Moviegoers were hungry for a new spectacle to take in at the multiplexes.
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