Box Office: 'Venom: The Last Dance' Tops With A Good-Enough $175 Million Worldwide Opening Weekend

'Venom 3' had no added value elements and suffered for the sins of 'Morbius' and 'Madame Web,' but it was budgeted at a level not requiring a global total on par with its overperforming predecessors.

Two things that can be concurrently true.
Venom: The Last Dance opened to disappointing domestic grosses.
Venom: The Last Dance is on its way to being a rock-solid commercial success for Sony. 

The Last Dance is “just” a Venom movie.

Venom: The Last Dance, purportedly the closing chapter in the Tom Hardy-starring Eddie Brock saga, had little to offer or sell beyond just being another Venom movie. The sequel already played the franchise’s arguable “trump card,” a fun/well-liked actor (Woody Harrelson) playing the only in-universe bad guy (Carnage) that general audiences might know and care about. Let There Be Carnage also leaned into the campy/quirky LGBTQIA-friendly rom-com tropes hinted at in the first Venom, making it more of a “yes, and...” follow-up. Venom 2 was also able to capitalize on the goodwill of the shockingly successful first Venom movie while opening in October of 2021 amid a theatrical ecosystem crawling back to pre-COVID levels. Venom 3 offered no added value elements, had mixed-negative reviews and a B- from Cinemascore amid a comparative decline in automatic must-see interest for Marvel/DC superhero movies.