"Venom" at the test of critics topping the box office for a second week

DISNEY WILL BE SOON owns each Marvel screen character, except those whose services are owned by Sony. So it was particularly important this fall that Sony began to create its own Spider-Man movie universe with the elements it has, so that society does not remain in the dust to recover.

In this context, everything revolved around the film "Venom" this month and it could have been disastrous, given the critical drama that took the film of the director Ruben Fleischer.

When "Venom" exceeded the opening weekend's predictions at the beginning of the month, the box office was a boon – but the movie was not yet completely out of the woods. "Venom" was to avoid a steep drop like that of another critically-criticized superhero movie, "Batman v Superman: The Dawn of Justice", which dropped nearly 70% during his second national weekend.

Over the weekend, the resilient "venom" avoided such a fate.

At the national level, "Venom" – starring Tom Hardy as a fierce journalist and journalist's alien symbol – has dropped 55%, yielding $ 35.7 million to win the weekend and the top "A Star Is Born "($ 28 million) a second week.

"Venom" also won the weekend abroad, totaling $ 69.7 million in more than 50 foreign markets, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.

This brings the gross total of the film to $ 378.1 million after just 10 days, on a budget announced of $ 100 million.

At this level, "Venom" is not only immune to criticism. It also allows Sony to author many movies based on Marvel comic book characters (the studio would have access to about 900 movies).

Last year, Sony's "Spider-Man: Homecoming", created in collaboration with Disney / Marvel, generated a worldwide profit of $ 880.2 million.

Up to now, "Venom" is following more and more the trajectory of Fox's "Logan" movie of X-Men, which last year reported a total of 152.9 million US dollars after a fall 57% on last weekend. "Logan" ultimately generated $ 226.3 million in the domestic market, for a total of $ 619 million worldwide.

Disney is in the process of acquiring Fox, including his X-Men universe.