Jaydogrules

$20k-$22k for a 9.8? $10k for a 9.6? Not hardly. Lol -J.

Actually, the narrative that was being pushed by the usual suspects (and, oddly, even before the book was released) was that it was (going to be) super "rare". Nevermind that it was available for pre-order weeks in advance and had plenty of them, or that it was going to be a number one issue, or that it would be the official re-naming of a character Marvel is really pushing, or that there were going to be multiple store variants also released to skew the ratio lower than normal than other legit 1:100's with no store variants- this one was going to be "rare". Really, really "rare". That caused some initial high sales. Then enter the shillers, a steady stream of fake buy it nows to create the pre-ordained "buzz" and "voila!". Seasoned dealers and collectors saw this coming a mile away and know exactly what is happening and what will happen. Now that Ebay has been flooded with dozens of copies over the last couple of days and squelched any talk of "rarity", maybe there will be an attempt to change the narrative to how great the cover is to rationalize all the fishy sales. Haven't really seen that just yet though.. -J.

Two dozen copies on Ebay in the last 48 hours alone. But it's #rare and should be at $1500 before the end of the week. -J.

I wonder about those- if the Venom franchise will be a one-off. Outside of Peter Parker/Spider-Man himself, Venom is easily Sony's largest and most recognizable Spider properties, exhibit A is Spider-Man 3 where Raimi was literally forced to shoehorn him in when he really wanted him for the fifth movie. Fans have been clamoring for a proper Venom ever since (10+ years) and Sony has been talking and teasing one for just about the same amount of time. Venom was critic proof because fans and a good chunk of the general movie going public already knew who Venom was. Sony was already fairly lucky to dodge a bullet with Venom, but again, he was already a pretty well known character among the masses, even more so now. Can the same be said for Morbius ? Black Cat? Kraven? Not particularly. And colour me more than a little skeptical that Sony has the chops to make completely unknown D list characters must-see move stars in the same way that Disney has been able to pull it off with its D list characters thus far (GOTG, Captain Marvel, Ant-man, etc). -J.

Nice! This is pretty much guaranteed to generate Sony's best revenue ratio for a Spidey film to date, and to gross more than Logan. -J.

Here's my ticket to ride. Really glad I sprung for this back in 2013. (Probably time for a new mylar bag for the case too lol.):

Great copy! -J.

$18.2MM for its third weekend for a very respectable less than 50% drop from week 2. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/halloween-box-office-terrifies-775m-debut-1154066 She got legs and she knows how to use them. -J.

Weird. I'm not sure what or why you (apparently) believe Halloween having a good opening night has to do with the (likely) ~$450MM Venom will be sitting at by the end of its third weekend. You either (apparently) believe Venom should be able to remain #1 at the box office indefinitely, or that the success of any subsequent movie somehow diminishes the overwhelming and continued success of Venom and its leggy performance thus far. In either case, you're wrong. -J.

Okay, okay I concede. -J.

You mean Business Insider, Collider, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter are "wrong". https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/venom-has-biggest-opening-weekend-ever-for-an-october-release-2018-10 https://www.google.com/amp/collider.com/venom-friday-box-office/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/box-office-venom-awes-10m-thursday-previews-a-star-is-born-nabs-32m-1149564 https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2018/film/box-office/venom-a-star-is-born-box-office-the-hate-u-give-loving-pablo-1202971215/amp/ Good talk. -J.

How is it wrong? Are you saying Venom only grossed $22MM on its first Friday? And then $4MM MORE on Saturday ($26MM)? Literally every single article reports the Thursday/Friday gross as Business Insider did. Not one reports it the way you do. -J.

No. $10MM on Thursday. And then $32.8MM on Friday. $42.8MM total on its first Thursday/Friday. $10MM+ more than Halloween for the same two day period. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/venom-has-biggest-opening-weekend-ever-for-an-october-release-2018-10 -J.

Halloween is estimated to have earned $32MM including its box office on Thursday. Venom made that on its first Friday alone. Also, the same deadline article you reference now estimates Venom at a nearly $19MM weekend three, which would only be another 47% drop. That's what we call "legs". The same article says $60MM is still possible for Halloween in a "worst case scenario". I'm saying that's closer to where it will end up after its first weekend (still very good for a first weekend, but Venom's October record is more than safe for now). https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2018/10/halloween-record-opening-weekend-box-office-1202485871/amp/ -J.

That's interesting. Venom made $10MM in Thursday previews and the "experts" pegged it for a $57MM-$65MM opening. Halloween does only $7.7MM on Thursday and they peg that for $75MM? Not likely. I say Halloween will be lucky to crawl past $60MM. Both Venom and A Star is Born (ick!) are expected to holdover strong. -J.

There was a sale yesterday for $2200. -J.

It's good that you grabbed it when you did. There are only three slabbed sales (including yours), and none raw, that I am familiar with in about a year all private sales. Haven't seen a bona fide raw copy in any condition, anywhere, in over two years. -J.

Niiiiice pick up. Big time congrats ! -J.

Awesome heavy hitter Dell'otto stack you have there. May I ask when and from where you snagged that 667? -J.

Very nice. The 9.8 ended at $2,325. 9.6's should see another price bump soon. -J.

Looks like you were right. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/10/14/box-office-venom-tom-hardy-michelle-williams-spiderman-logan/amp/ ...but not in the way you thought you'd be. Lol -J.

#1 again with $35MM and a very respectable 56% drop from first week's record breaking grosses: https://mobile.twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1051486817831120897?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet $378MM worldwide, with China still to come. https://mobile.twitter.com/BORReport/status/1051490683490463744?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet At this point, Sony isn't worrying about the Halloween remake/reboot/sequel pr whatever it is. At this point the studio that's putting out halloween is worrying about Venom. -J.

Your numbers are whackadoodle. Sorry this film's runaway success perturbs you so much. Might I suggest you start A Star is Born fanboy reddit. -J.

+1 My only bone of contention was the notion that 60% second week decline should be considered "massive", when it is in fact average. 75-80% second week drop would be massive. We won't be seeing anything like that. Venom is buzzy among movie goers. That bodes well for some decent legs. -J.

Now I don't see your point (?) A Star is Born is sitting at $66MM domestic. That's still $40MM+ less than Venom. It made $35MM less opening weekend. It has lost ground. And a new movie next week may out-gross a three week old movie next week. This is prophetic, how? And FWIW, Halloween is rated R and is a stodgy 40 year old franchise. Venom is fresh and new and its "safe" PG-13 rating will likely carry it through with the tweeners through at least the first couple of weeks in November. And seeing as how the film will blow past $300MM in just two weeks of release, without China even hitting yet, I'll take you up on your bet for a less than $500MM worldwide end gross. In fact I put it around $550-$600MM now which in fact crushes the first wolverine movie totals (a more apt comparison). -J.