Sony will hit the box office the first weekend of November, with the second frame of the Culver City lots Venom: The Last Dance a drop of about 60%, or $20 million, for No. 1, followed by the studio’s release of Miramax’s adult drama Here.

Here, which represents the Forrest Gump reteam of filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, is expected to earn about $7 million with an eye toward hopefully attracting older adults again this weekend after they made a date for Focus Features’ Conclave last weekend ($6.6 million opening).

It remains to be seen whether Here lands in second place, giving Sony the 1-2 punch of the frame.

The question is whether the audience will agree to watch a generational drama story about different families on the same property/house at a crooked angle. Hanks and Wright are technologically outdated to their former 80s/90s selves, with their storyline being the aorta of the story. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes responded with a 33% Rotten rating after the pic had its world premiere at AFI Fest on Friday.

Here was fully funded by Bill Block’s former Miramax administration for $50 million; he is a producer on the film. Block also produced last year’s Miramax Oscar winner The survivors, which was sold to Focus in a $30 million global rights deal. Here is a domestic distribution deal for Sony, which has lately been doing business with Hanks in the 2022-2023 drama A man named Otto, where half of the general public was over 55 years old; that pic finished with a four-day opening of $15.4 million after a three-step platform release and ended its domestic run with $64.2 million. Sony also had the Hanks films A beautiful day in the neighborhood, which opened to $13.2 million pre-Covid in 2019 and ended with $61.7 million in the United States, and the World War II film Greyhound, which brought it to Apple TV+ during the pandemic.

Here was originally planned as a three-step platform with an exclusive debut in New York City and Los Angeles on November 5, limited expansion on November 22, and the big explosion on November 27 before Sony moved it to this weekend as a full wide release.

The box office won’t regain some energy until November 15, when Amazon MGM Studios’ Dwayne Johnson-Chris Evans Christmas promotion drops Red opens to an expected $36M+, followed by Bad And Gladiator II on November 22 and Moana 2 on November 27.

Samuel Goldwyn’s action film Liam Neeson also opens wide this weekend with 1,200 runs Absolution, as well as Viva’s animated film Hitpigabout a bounty hunter pig who travels the world with a free-spirited elephant he wanted to capture. Andy Serkis, Rainn Wilson and Jason Sudeikis have voice roles in a film directed by Cinzia Angelini and David Feiss.

Here showtimes start at 2pm on Thursday, Halloween night.