'Venom' tops North American box office with $90.1M

Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Tom Hardy's Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $90.1 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

Coming in at No. 2 is The Addams Family 2 with $18 million, followed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings at No. 3 with $6 million, The Many Saints of Newark at No. 4 with $5 million and Dear Evan Hansen at No. 5 with $2.5 million.

Rounding out the top tier are Free Guy at No. 6 with $2.3 million, Candyman at No. 7 with $1.2 million, Jungle Cruise at No. 8 with 680,000, Chal Mera Putt 3 at No. 9 with $644,000 and The Jesus Music at No. 10 with $560,000.

Last week's box-office take for the Top 10 was about $36.1 million when Shang-Chi was No. 1 for a fourth weekend.

This week's overall gross was $128.4 million, including 127.0 million for the top-10 films.

Last year during the first weekend in October, the overall gross was $9.0 million. In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, it was $150.6 million.