While it’s certainly packaged as a prestige picture, and it’s very likely we’ll hear about it a lot during award season, it also cost $59 million to make.
It’s likely that the plan is to make that money back in the long run, but surely the studio was hoping for a bigger box office impact.
What’s good news for Venom, however, is basically bad news for everything else – especially the crop of new wide releases, none of which were able to take a position above third place.
Universal has big hopes for the film, which chronicles Neil Armstrong’s journey to become the first person to walk on the moon, but they probably aren’t too happy with its $16.5 million opening.