Venom Breaks $820M Worldwide – How Did It Come To This?

My deep-lying bias against Venom is public knowledge, beginning when I decided to write an angry rant about the whole idea after it was first announced (you can catch it in related below). I get that some people have seen it and said it was okay, a few have said it wasn’t great, but not awful. But the very idea of it annoyed me irrespective of whether it was a good movie or not. With the movie getting a collective ‘Meh’ ranking in most places I genuinely feel no rush to go and watch this….Ever.

Now we discover (thanks to Box Office Mojo) after this weekend Venom has gone on to surpass $820 Million in box office takings since release. How the hell did this happen folks? I blame you fans, since they never got any of my money. You realize that this success almost guarantees that Sony will push ahead with their own Spider-Verse and ultimately, eventually, the wall-crawler will come a-crawling back to Sony?

RELATED: LRM Rant: What’s The Point Of Sony’s Venom Movie?!

Of course, unless you run the site through Google Translator then the majority of this movie’s audience might struggle unless they read English surprisingly well. The vast majority of Venom‘s profits have come from China, which ultimately is a country where I simply cannot fathom their movie tastes. One minute they don’t go to see The Last Jedi and I think, “the Chinese have got this”, then next they essentially prop up strange movies such as Transformers and now Venom. Is this due to a lack of being raised on great movies from the 70s and 80s? Therefore the Chinese don’t have my cold cynicism and expected disappointment in everything modern? Maybe this means I’m starting to get too old and grumpy to enjoy modern movies, like my Dad is with everything releases after my birth in 78 (which essentially means post-John Wayne specifically)?

Whatever the reason we have to accept that the market you need to crack in this industry right now is China, a movie can live or die by how it is perceived in those territories.

I’ll leave with this,

What can Venom fans do against such reckless Sony hate? Where is the Spider, where is the web that was swinging? They have passed like symbiotes on the mountainside.

How did it come to this?

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SOURCE: Box Office Mojo

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