Venom, which was released on Thursday to capitalise on the holiday weekend, has over 1,000 screens. It’s a popular franchise in India, and it may follow in the footsteps of previous blockbusters like No Time to Die and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Five Rings.
In the absence of Bollywood films, theatre owners are banking on the Hollywood superhero picture Venom: Let There Be Carnage to entice audiences this Dussehra weekend. The Hindi film schedule will be released in theatres in time for Diwali.
Venom, which was released on Thursday to capitalise on the holiday weekend, has over 1,000 screens. It’s a popular series in India, and it may follow in the footsteps of previous blockbusters such as No Time to Die and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The previous instalment of the Venom series, released in 2018, grossed 34.31 crore in India.
The festival weekend will be significant for the Bengali and Punjabi film industries, which will see the release of two major films, Golondaaj and Honsla Rakh, respectively.
“There is a lot of hype about Venom, and it appears to be a solid blend of mass-market genres like horror, action, and spectacular effects,” said Sreedhar Pillai, an independent trade analyst. According to Pillai, the film should follow in the footsteps of No Time to Die, which grossed approximately 11.3 crore in its debut weekend, or even perform better.
Venom, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe’s second feature, will be released in Hindi, English, Tamil, and Telugu, as well as 3D, IMAX, and 4DX formats. Earlier this month, the picture made history when it grossed an estimated $90.1 million in its first weekend in the United States, the greatest total for the country since the epidemic.
“Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a massive screen extravaganza that is a must-see in theatres.” “We hope that this picture will attract people back to the theatres in India like it did in the United States,” said Vivek Krishnani, managing director of Sony Pictures Films India.
“We’re confident that people will return to theatres in huge numbers during this festival season, and at the same time, there will be material that people will watch at home on their own screens.” Overall, consumers are the ultimate winners because they get to select what they want to watch and when,” Krishnani said, referring to the broad range of options available on streaming services and the shift in viewer behaviour during the past year and a half of the epidemic.
