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Venom 3 is expected to hit an all-time low in its opening weekend

Movieguide® contributor

The prospects for the third film in the Venom series, VENOM: THE LAST DANCE, don’t look particularly good.

“As Venom: The Last Dance inches closer to its release date, box office forecasts continue to deteriorate,” CBR reported on October 15. “While the Sony/Marvel threequel is still highly anticipated, it is no longer expected to break the record for best opening in the franchise.”

The film is expected to gross $70 million in its opening weekend, October 25th. Just a few weeks ago it was on track to gross between $80 and $120 million.

“The change in box office tracking also comes with an unfortunate reversal in franchise records. “The Last Dance” was previously projected to potentially surpass “Venom: Let There Be Carnage”s $90 million domestic opening and take the crown for the franchise’s best opening weekend,” CBR reported. “However, since the film is currently only projected to gross $70 million, that’s less than both Let There Be Carnage and the original Venom film ($80.2 million), meaning The Last Dance will end up grossing $70 million The Venom series could set the record for the worst opening weekend of all time.”

The last Venom film, LET THERE BE CARNAGE, featured intense violence and language. The Movieguide® review reads:

In VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE, Eddie Brock gets the chance to interview the notorious criminal Cletus Kasady. Eddie and his alien counterpart Venom discover where Cletus has hidden the bodies of his murder victims. This results in Cletus receiving a death sentence. Shortly before his planned death, Eddie comes to interview Cletus one last time. However, an argument breaks out between them. This causes Cletus to bite Eddie and absorb his blood, creating another alien monster called Carnage. After escaping from prison, Cletus hires Carnage to help his girlfriend escape from her high-security mental institution. They decide to take revenge on the people who harmed them.

VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE features strong character development, great direction, stunning visual effects and captivating performances. It also has a strong moral worldview with implicit and overtly positive Christian content. The film promotes marriage, the light overcoming the darkness, and doing the right thing. Furthermore, the decisive battle takes place in a church. However, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution as there is a lot of strong, intense action violence, some immoral and borderline behavior, and excessive profanity.

The third film also has excessive language and violence with bloody scenes. But such content is clearly not what drives ticket sales. People want to see entertaining films with positive elements that they can show family and friends. Films like PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN, THOR: RAGNAROK and JUSTICE LEAGUE all did fantastically well at the box office because they did not contain excessive profanity and violence and contained some wholesome themes.

Screen Rant reported, “Ragnarok earned more at the box office than any of the previous Thor films, thanks in large part to the new elements and shift in tone.” Marketing also relied heavily on the film’s playfulness, which made it popular made it more appealing to a wider audience.” The film became the MCU’s third best-selling film of all time.

Unfortunately, the Thor series fell off the podium with the introduction of THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. This was due to the film’s strong profanity, inappropriate and perverse themes, and violence. Therefore it only appeals to a very narrow audience.

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE is also going this route to appeal to a narrow audience, which will result in less desirable ticket sales. Its flop would almost guarantee that the franchise would kill any notion of future films and stay true to the “.”Sweep away” is part of the title of the new film.