“The Last Dance” and “Here” will take over the box office for Sony

Sony will be at the box office the first weekend in November with the second picture of the Culver City lot Venom: The Last Dance A drop of about 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio's release of Miramax's adult drama Here.

Here, what she represents Forrest Gump The reboot, from filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is expected to gross around $7 million, with the aim of hopefully pulling out older adults again this weekend after securing a date for Focus Features defined. conclave last weekend ($6.6 million opening).

It remains to be seen whether Here Slots in second place, giving Sony the 1:2 success of the frame.

The question is whether the audience is okay with seeing a generational drama story about different families on the same property/house from a distorted angle. Hanks and Wright have technologically aged back to their former 1980s/1990s selves, their plot the aorta of the story. Rotten Tomatoes critics responded with a 33% Rotten rating after the pic had its world premiere at AFI Fest on Friday.

Here was fully financed by Bill Block's former Miramax administration for $50 million; He is the producer of the film. Block also produced last year's Miramax Oscar winner The remnants, which was sold to Focus in a $30 million global rights deal. Here is a domestic distribution deal for Sony, which recently inked deals with Hanks for the 2022-2023 drama A man named Otto, half of the cinema audience was over 55 years old; That pic ended with a four-day opening of $15.4 million after a three-stage platform release and ended its domestic run with $64.2 million. Sony also had the Hanks films A beautiful day in the neighborhood, which started with $13.2 million pre-Covid in 2019 and ended with $61.7 million in the US, and the World War II film greyhound, which it unloaded on Apple TV+ during the pandemic.

Here was originally planned as a three-stage platform with an exclusive debut in New York City and Los Angeles on November 5th, a limited expansion on November 22nd and the big release on November 27th, before Sony pushed it back as a full release to this weekend.

The box office won't get back on track until November 15th with Amazon MGM Studios' Dwayne Johnson-Chris Evans holiday action film Red opens to an expected over $36 million, followed by Evil And Gladiator II on November 22nd and Moana 2 on November 27th

Also opening to great success this weekend is Samuel Goldwyn's Liam Neeson action film with 1,200 runs Absolution, as well as Viva's animated film Hitpigabout a bounty hunter pig who travels the world with a free-spirited elephant he wanted to capture. Andy Serkis, Rainn Wilson and Jason Sudeikis have voice roles in a film directed by Cinzia Angelini and David Feiss.

Here Performances begin on Thursday, Halloween night, at 2 p.m.