“Venom: The Last Dance” We enjoyed another weekend at the top of the box office. The Sony movie starring Tom Hardy added $26.1 million to ticket sales, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

It was a relatively quiet weekend for North American movie theaters heading towards presidential election. The charts were dominated by major studios like “Venom 3.” “Wild Robot” and “Smile 2”, audiences absolutely rejected the reunion of Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis. “Here.” Thirty years after “Forrest Gump,” “Here” opened to just $5 million in 2,647 locations.

“Venom 3” dropped just 49% in its second weekend, which is a pretty small drop for a superhero movie. It didn’t open exactly like that either. The film grossed over $90 million domestically in two weeks; The first two opened for over $80 million. In global terms, the picture is brighter considering that it has exceeded the $300 million threshold.

Meanwhile, Universal and Illumination’s “Wild Robot” Six weeks later, it continues to appeal to moviegoers (and when available on video-on-demand), it ranks second with $7.6 million. There is an 11% increase compared to last weekend. The animated wizard grossed over $121 million in North America and $269 million worldwide.

“‘Wild Robot’ has quietly been an absolute juggernaut for the fall season,” said Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. “It’s surprising that this movie saw an increase after six weeks.”

“Smile 2” landed in third place with $6.8 million, helping bring its worldwide total to $109.7 million.

“Here,” a time-traveling comic book adapted by “Forrest Gump” screenwriter Eric Roth, was financed by Miramax and distributed by Sony’s TriStar company. With his fixed-position camera, he takes the audience through the years in a single living room. Critics disagreed: It has an abysmal 36% overall on Rotten Tomatoes.

“It was already a slow weekend, but it didn’t resonate the way a lot of people thought it would,” Dergarabedian said. “There are a lot of movies for the audience that ‘Here’ is after.”

Despite playing in nearly 1,000 locations, “Here” is behind Focus Properties’ papal thriller “Meeting” It earned $5.3 million. Opening in 1,796 theaters, “Conclave” is down just 20% since its debut last week, grossing $15.2 million so far. Two Hindi films also entered the top 10: “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3” and “Singham Again.”

Overall box office continues to lag behind 2023 by almost 12%. But going to the movies during the holidays will likely give the industry a year-end boost, with movies like “Gladiator II” and “Wicked” on the way.

“In a few weeks, things are going to get a lot more competitive,” Dergarabedian said.

Jesse Eisenberg film “A Real Pain” The comedy-drama about cousins ​​on a Holocaust tour in Poland, opening in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles this weekend. It earned an estimated $240,000 or $60,000 per screen; That’s among the top three per-theater averages for the year. Searchlight Pictures will expand the well-reviewed film nationwide in the coming weeks, reaching more than 800 theaters on November 15.

But box office charts don’t always paint the full picture of the cinema landscape. Several relatively high-profile films opening in theaters this weekend did not report full grosses for various reasons, including Clint Eastwood’s film. “Jury #2” Steve McQueen’s WWII movie “Press” and Cannes darling “Emilia Perez.” Netflix, which directed “Emilia Pérez,” never provides a box office report. Apple Original Films is following suit with “Blitz,” a likely awards contender that will debut in theaters before debuting on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.

“Jury No. 2” is a Warner Bros. publication and has been well reviewed on this subject. In the film directed by Eastwood, Nicholas Hoult plays a juror in a murder case who faces a huge moral dilemma. Domestic ticket sales have been stopped. The studio said it earned $5 million from international shows playing on 1,348 screens.

Even major studios occasionally hide their box office numbers. Earlier this year, Disney didn’t make any news about the Daisy Ridley movie “The Young Woman and the Sea.” The results were mostly hidden during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It really depends on the distributors,” Dergarabedian said. “Many times the reason certain movies go unreported is because the quality of the movie may be conflated with the box office number.”

Final domestic figures will be announced on Monday. According to Comscore, estimated ticket sales at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday were:

1. “Venom: The Last Dance” $26.1 million.

2. “Wild Robot” $7.6 million.

3. “Smile 2,” $6.8 million.

4. “Conclave,” $5.3 million.

5. “Here” is $5 million.

6. “We Live in Time,” $3.5 million.

7. “Terrible 3,” $3.4 million.

8. “Singham Again,” $2.1 million.

9. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” $2.1 million.

10. “Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3,” $2.1 million.___This story has been corrected to reflect that the seventh film in the top 10 is “Terrifier 3,” not “Terrifier 2.”