For a weekend that’s making less than $100M for all titles, there were some impressive feats going on.

From out of the blue, Sony/Marvel’s Venom the Last Dance after registering the lowest opening in the trilogy with $51M, actually held fantastically with a -49% second weekend or $26.1M. That percentile hold is the best for the trilogy ahead of Venom‘s second weekend decline of -56% and Venom: Let There Be Carnage‘s -65%, but it’s also great for a comic book movie ahead of Deadpool & Wolverine‘s (-54%) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (-63%) (granted, they were posting bigger numbers). But still for a B- CinemaScore comic-book movie — ‘Yeah!’ for Sony. Running total is $90M through EOD today. Imax saw $2.2M for the threequel raising its domestic take to $7.8M. Running global tally is a great $317M+ for the $120M budgeted Sony Marvel movie.

Meanwhile, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Wild Robot saw an amazing sixth weekend spike of +11% –unheard of–with $7.55M for a second-place steal; pic’s running cume now at $121.4M.

Sources say there’s nothing else in the marketplace, hence the great holds that occurring. More to the point, the epic LA vs. NYC World Series ended before going into a second weekend, hence the bounce back for business on Venom 3. The big games weren’t a case of the dog eating Sony’s homework; those record ratings did impact ticket sales.

Also as one Sony insider points out, “People do like Venom“. Just look at the Rotten Tomatoes audience score which sits at 81%. Business we hear churned all day yesterday north of $11M. There’s also something to be said about a post Halloween halo effect; celebrations did continue into last night, but people also went to the movies.

Not so ‘Yeah!’ when it came to their distribution of Miramax’s Robert Zemeckis’ directed fixed camera drama Here which crashed with $5M. More on that later.

On the specialty side, there was a lot to celebrate — even if some of the box office numbers went unreported.

–Searchlight’s Jesse Eisenberg directed bromance, A Real Pain, which was acquired at Sundance for $10M put up the third best opening weekend theater average of the year at $60K or $240K from four locations: NYC’s Angelika ($56K) and Lincoln Square ($62K) and LA’s AMC Century City ($29K) and AMC’s Grove ($29K). That theater average files behind this year’s best which is Anora ($91,7K) and Searchlight’s Kinds of Kindness ($75,4K).

–Word on the street is that Warner Bros.’ Clint Eastwood drama Juror No. 2 grossed another $100K yesterday after $90K Friday at 35 locations for what’s shaping up to be a $260K-$275K weekend. Very good. Those numbers are sources’ estimates as Warners isn’t reporting.

–NEON’s Anora keeps dancing in weekend 3 with an expansion to 253 sites and a 3-day of $1.89M, running total of $3.9M. She’s going to keep entrancing for quite some time in theaters. Anora‘s 17-day running total isn’t that far from that of NEON’s Parasite.

–Focus Features’ second weekend of Vatican thriller, Conclave, kept the incense smoking with -20% second weekend hold. Great.

–Steve McQueen’s WWII drama Blitz via Apple Original also wasn’t shabby with a $20K per theater from three houses: NY’s Lincoln Center, Union Square and LA’s Sunset 5 or $60K opening per sources. Missed opportunity theatrically, even on a limited basis? Apple doesn’t report grosses on limited release.

All movies grossed $76.1M this weekend — 21% ahead of the same period a year ago.

Chart updated with Sunday figures:

via Deadline