MGMB - Sony looks to make box-office 'Carnage' with Marvel vs. Marvel square-off

It's the busiest box office in several weeks starting today, with three films headed into wide release - and Sony, WarnerMedia and United Artists Releasing looking to knock Disney out of the top spot. Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (NYSE:DIS) became the year's top-grossing domestic film after its fourth weekend on top. But it faced a few light weekends in September, including the lightest since May, and there are more challengers now. Foremost among them is Venom: Let There Be Carnage (NYSE:SONY), the sequel to 2018's Venom, part of Sony's Spider-Man series (it has an arms-length relationship to the Marvel character). The new film returns Tom Hardy, and adds Woody Harrelson as his antagonist. Venom opened to $80 million almost exactly three years ago, but that was before COVID-19, so expectations are that the new film will take its place among the year's top openings

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Sony looks to make box-office 'Carnage' with Marvel vs. Marvel square-off