The Venom sequel, Let There Be Carnage, had a very strong opening this past weekend at the North American box office. It made $90.1 million in the US and Canada to surpass Black Widow ($80.8 million) to become the highest-grossing movie during the pandemic for its opening weekend, according to Deadline.
Let There Be Carnage is actually doing even better than 2018's Venom, which made $80.2 million for its opening weekend--and there was no pandemic at the time.
"Venom: Let There Be Carnage absolutely validates our exclusive theatrical window strategy," Sony Motion Pictures boss Josh Greenstein said. "If you look at the history of theatrical, the obituaries have been written many times, and they’ve always been wrong. We had confidence in the theatrical experience, confidence in our big valuable IP, and took full advantage and had the patience to weather all of this. That strategy is paying off, which we're happy about. It's a nice validation of the theatrical strategy."
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