Venom And A Star Is Born Top Box Office Returns For A Second Week

LOS ANGELES (CelebrityAccess) — For the second week in a row, Sony’s superhero action movie Venom and Warner Bros. musically-themed A Star Is Born held the top two spots in worldwide box office revenue.

According to estimates compiled by comScore, Venom earned $35.7M in North American theaters and $105.4M worldwide, in its second weekend of theatrical release.

A Star Is Born continued to perform in the theaters during its second weekend as well, earning $28.0M domestically, and $48.2M worldwide.

New entries for this week, including Universal’s First Man, a dramatization of the moon landing, failed to generate much traction with audiences.

The film, which featured Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong and with direction from Damien Chazelle (La La Land) failed to recoup its estimated $70m production budget, earning just $16.5M in North America and $25.1M worldwide.

Sony’s seasonally appropriate Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and 20th Centgury Fox’s neo-noir thriller Bad Times at the El Royale also landed with a thud. Goosebumps scared up just $19.9M for its debut while Bad Times bowed to just $11.2m from 37 territories worldwide.

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, October 14, are below.

1. Venom – Sony – $105.4M
2. Star Is Born, A – Warner Bros. – $48.2M
3. First Man – Universal – $25.1M
4. Smallfoot – Warner Bros. – $23.8M
5. Project Gutenberg – Multiple – $22.3M
6. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween – Sony – $19.9M
7. Johnny English Strikes Again – Universal – $11.5M
8. Bad Times At The El Royale – 20th Century Fox – $11.2M
9. Night School – Universal – $10.2M
10. House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Multiple – $9.6M
11. Shadow – Multiple – $8.2M
12. Lost, Found – Multiple – $8.1M

The top 12 domestic weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, October 14, are below.

1. Venom – Sony – $35.7M
2. Star Is Born, A – Warner Bros. – $28.0M
3. First Man – Universal – $16.5M
4. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween – Sony – $16.2M
5. Smallfoot – Warner Bros. – $9.3M
6. Night School – Universal – $8.0M
7. Bad Times At The El Royale – 20th Century Fox – $7.2M
8. House With A Clock In Its Walls, The – Universal – $4.0M
9. Hate U Give, The – 20th Century Fox – $1.8M
10. Simple Favor, A – Lionsgate – $1.4M
11. Nun, The – Warner Bros. – $1.4M
12. Crazy Rich Asians – Warner Bros. – $1.1M