After Venom shocked us all by snagging an $80 million opening weekend, much of the talk online was about how the Tom Hardy vehicle’s success would be short-lived and that it would surely take a big (-60% or more) drop in its second weekend. First of all, a big comic book superhero movie falling 60% or more in its second weekend is no longer considered a major issue. Second, just in the last three years, we’ve seen a handful of big superhero flicks take arguable nose-dives in weekend two only to reassert themselves over the next month for an eventually happy ending.
So, for my own research, I dug up an old list I made three years ago for the 16-biggest second-weekend drops for comic book superhero movies. To my amusement, we’ve actually had a handful of new entries on the list. Moreover, the likes of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Deadpool 2 and Suicide Squad (along with Ant-Man and the Wasp, which dropped “only” 61% this summer) recovered accordingly and ended up with perfectly acceptable ($300 million+) domestic totals. So, for those who are curious, here are the 22-biggest second-weekend drops for major comic book superhero movies.
Box office: The biggest 2nd-weekend drops for comic book superhero movies
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Again, it was a prostate check!
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I’m removing Jonah Hex and Steel from the top 10. People didn’t even know they were from comics, so they don’t belong in the CBM category. (Kind of like Road to Perdition. People went to see a Tom Hanks movie, not a comic adaptation.)
That means Zack Snyder directed 3 out of the top 8. That’s almost half! Two of them (Watchmen and BvS) have the dubious distinction of not even achieving a 2x multiplier.
