Box Office: October 1-3, 2021: VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE, THE ADDAMS FAMILY 2, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, & More

Box Office: October 1-3, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for October 1, 2021 through October 3, 2021 have been released.

Venom: Let There be Carnage premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office with $90 Million.

The Addams Family 2 premiered in Second Place at the box office with $17.3 Million.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was Third at the United States box office with $6.1 Million for $206.1 Million so far. World-wide, the film has made $386.9 Million.

The Many Saint of Newark premiered in Fourth Place at the box office with $4.6 Million.

Dear Evan Hansen was Fifth at the box office over the weekend with $2.4 Million.

These films: Free Guy, Candyman, Jungle Cruise, The Jesus Music (which premiered this weekend), and Titane rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a 2021 American superhero film featuring the Marvel Comics character Venom, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel and Tencent Pictures. Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the second film in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe and the sequel to Venom (2018). The film is directed by Andy Serkis from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, based on a story she wrote with Tom Hardy who stars as Eddie Brock / Venom alongside Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, and Woody Harrelson. In the film, Brock struggles to adjust to life as the host of the alien symbiote Venom, while serial killer Cletus Kasady (Harrelson) escapes from prison after becoming the host of Carnage, a chaotic spawn of Venom.

The Addams Family 2 is a 2021 computer-animated supernatural black comedy road film directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon, co-directed by Laura Brousseau and Kevin Pavlovic, written by Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Ben Queen, and Susanna Fogel with a story by Hernandez and Samit, and based on the characters created by Charles Addams. Serving as a sequel to the 2019 film, the film features the voices of Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Javon Walton, Snoop Dogg, Bette Midler, and Bill Hader. It tells the story of the Addams family as they go on a road trip.

The Many Saints of Newark (marketed with the subtitle A Sopranos Story) is a 2021 American crime drama film directed by Alan Taylor and written by David Chase and Lawrence Konner. A prequel to Chase’s HBO crime drama series The Sopranos, it takes place during the 1960s and 1970s in Newark, New Jersey. The film follows a violent gang war from the perspectives of mobster Dickie Moltisanti and his teenage nephew, Tony Soprano, in the midst of the city’s 1967 riots. It stars Alessandro Nivola as Dickie and Michael Gandolfini as Tony, the character originated by his father in the series, with Leslie Odom Jr., Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, Michela De Rossi, John Magaro, Ray Liotta, and Vera Farmiga in supporting roles.

[The Jesus Music is a 2021 documentary that] reveals Jesus Music’s untold story – from its humble beginnings at the Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, California through its transformation into the multi-billion-dollar industry of Christian Contemporary Music today.

Titane (English: Titanium) is a 2021 body horror written and directed by Julia Ducournau. The film stars Agathe Rousselle as Alexia, a woman who, after being injured in a car accident as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head. Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier and Laïs Salameh also star.

Next week sees the release of: No Time to Die, American Insurrection, Lamb, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: No Time to Die will be Number One at the box office.

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