Home Marvel

‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ finally passes the first movie at the box office

Venom: Let There Be Carnage has finally overtaken its predecessor at the domestic box office, almost four months after releasing.

venom let there be carnage

Believe it or not, Venom: Let There Be Carnage is still playing in theaters, despite debuting all the way back on October 1, even if the symbiotic sequel’s thunder has long since been stolen.

Recommended Videos

For a while, Tom Hardy’s return as Eddie Brock was the biggest and most popular Sony-produced Marvel Comics adaptation of the pandemic, only for that pesky Tom Holland and Spider-Man: No Way Home to come along and obliterate almost every standing record set during the age of COVID.

Andy Serkis’ breezy 97-minute superhero story is one of just four Hollywood blockbusters to have passed $500 million globally since the beginning of 2020, putting it alongside the aforementioned No Way Home, No Time to Die and Fast & Furious 9 in such rarefied air, but it’s now set another impressive benchmark.

Having cobbled together $16,500 from cinemas yesterday, Let There Be Carnage has officially surpassed the domestic gross of Ruben Fleischer’s opening installment, with a shade over $213 million in the bank. That’s a solid feat for a film that’s been playing on the big screen for almost four months, never mind one that arrived in the midst of a global health crisis.

Sure, it’s only the second-biggest of Sony’s recent Marvel releases, but there’s no shame sitting behind No Way Home.