Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (“True Detective”), “No Time to Die” follows Craig’s Bond as he is drawn back into active service by an old friend. The returning cast includes Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Léa Seydoux, Rory Kinnear, Ben Whishaw and Jeffrey Wright. Series newcomers Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch and Billy Magnussen also star, along with Rami Malek as the film’s antagonist.

The box office’s runner-up slot will be taken by the second weekend of Sony’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” The Marvel sequel netted $8.85 million on Friday and is headed to a projected $31.1 million weekend total. That number would mark a 64% drop from the film’s record-setting opening weekend of $90.1 million, the largest domestic box office debut of the pandemic era.

Meanwhile, UAR and MGM’s “The Addams Family 2” will take third. The film earned $2.77 million on Friday. The animated sequel is only projected to drop 38% in its second weekend, a remarkable hold-over for a film that became available through at-home rentals on the same day of its theatrical debut.

Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is headed for fourth place, grossing $1.17 million on Friday for a running total of $209.4 million. The superhero movie has been a box office mainstay since its opening on Labor Day weekend. Rounding out the five is the second weekend of “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel to HBO’s renowned crime series “The Sopranos.” The Warner Bros. release grossed $400,000 on Friday, a whopping 80% drop from its opening day last week. While “Many Saints” has struggled at the box office, streaming viewership data indicates that the film drew plenty of eyeballs on HBO Max.