Early October Box Office

Another effects-heavy super hero extravaganza lands at the top of The List.

The first full weekend of October movie receipts turns out to be highly venomous.

THREE DAYS OF GROSSES

1) Venom -- 4,250 -- $80M -- $80M (1st weekend)

2) A Star Is Born -- 3,686 -- $42.2M -- $43.5M (1st weekend)

3) Smallfoot -- 3,592 -- $14.55M (-40%) -- $42.4M

4) Night School -- 3,019 (+9) -- $11.9M (-55%) -- $39.1M

5) The House… -- 3,463 -- $7M (-44%) -- $54.7M

6) A Simple Favor -- 2,408 (-665) -- $3.5M (-46%) -- $49.1M

7) The Nun -- 2,264 (-1,067) -- $2.7M (-50%) -- $113.4M

8) Crazy Rich Asians -- 1,466 (-881) -- $2.1M (-48%) -- $169.2M

9) Hell Fest -- 2,297 -- $2M (-48%) -- $8.8M

10) The Predator -- 1,643 (-1,283) -- $900K (-77%) -- $49.9M

Venom opens north of $80 million in the U.S. and Canada. With a production budget of $110 million (after the Free Money is handed out via tax breaks and subsidies) it should climb rapidly into profits.

Smallfoot has the smallest PERCENTAGE decline of any movie in the Top Ten ... The Incredibles 2 remains in a couple of hundred theaters and now stands at $606.9 million domestic, $1.2 billion worldwide.

Hotel Transylvania 3 is now pretty much gone from neighborhood multiplexes, but has a global domestic gross of $511,661,024.