Venom: The Last Dance” is two-stepping slower than its series predecessors in North America, after chowing down on $22 million from 4,131 domestic theaters across Friday and previews. That’s well below the first-day debuts of both the first “Venom” in 2018 ($32 million) and its 2021 sequel “Let There Be Carnage” ($37 million).

For the last time, Tom Hardy’s Venom is swinging his way to the box office. Sony’s “Venom: The Last Dance,” the final movie in the Spider-Man villain’s trilogy, has made $8.5 million in Thursday previews at the box office so far.

Its opening weekend may have only just begun, but Venom 3 is already falling short of its franchise's standards at the box office.