USAn Box Office: Shark and State Sank Cruise
Thanks to the release of the American-Chinese blockbuster Meg: Monster of the Depth, the USA box office was able to revive a little after several weeks of extremely low fees. Compared to last weekend, which with a result of 395 million rubles. became the worst this year, revenue of cinemas increased by 51% and amounted to about 597 million rubles.A fantastic horror thriller about the rescue of the crew of a deep-sea bathyscaphe and several hundred more unsuspecting people from a prehistoric 23-meter shark in America that we have managed to surpass all expectations of film analysts and the Warner Bros. studio. The film by director John Terteltaub was expected to have a starting fee of around 240 million rubles. However, during the first four days, the bloodthirsty shark managed to get 348.5 million rubles out of the spectators' pockets, setting several records at once. So, "Meg: Monster of the Depth" showed the best start this year among the original foreign films, overtaking Steven Spielberg's tape "Ready Player One", which debuted with a result of 330 million rubles. The triumphant of August last year, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" (347 million rubles), remained behind. Besides, "Meg" became the highest grossing film starring Jason State in our history. Previously, the most successful solo film by the British actor was the action movie "The Mechanic", which in 2011 spent 245 million rubles.  As for the reaction of critics and viewers to the novelty, they accepted the film without much enthusiasm. The creators of the project came out with an average and absolutely passable entertaining picture, as they say, at one time. Of course, the good old State did not disappoint and everything is also cheerfully and with bare hands cracking down on opponents, be it international terrorists or a prehistoric shark. But the film itself came out too serious, with a lot of cliches, boring and sometimes even unnecessary dialogues, too often distracted by the history of minor characters, which stops the dynamics of the picture. Although, when the plot finally accelerates, the action, reviewers unanimously admit, looks really spectacular, like the megalodon shark itself.  Another novelty of the past week, the crime comedy "The Spy Who Dumped Me", is on the second line with a huge lag behind the leader. In the story, the best friends Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon) suddenly find themselves at the center of an international conspiracy and are forced to take on the difficult task of saving the world. Of the expected by analysts 70 million rubles. for the first weekend at the box office, Susanna Vogel's film managed to earn 55 million rubles. The novelty, of course, is far from such a brother in genre as the tape "Spy" with Melissa McCarthy in the title role, which debuted in 2015 with a result of RUB 163 million. It started rather at the level of the films "Spies in the Neighborhood" (61 million rubles), "Cops in Skirts" (59 million rubles) and "Killers" (54 million rubles). Reviewers for the most part scold the film, classifying almost everything as a disadvantage, starting with an unconvincing acting duet and the fact that the picture cannot determine the genre in any way, ending with inappropriate and unfunny "toilet" humor. The audience, perhaps, only celebrates the staging of fights and chases, but in order to stretch the tape, this is clearly not enough.  The Disney family film Christopher Robin was just a little short of the second highest grossing tapes of the weekend. The picture showed a rather mild drop in fees, about 42% compared to the premiere result, and put an additional 50 million rubles in the piggy bank. In total, the film, which returned to the screens the matured hero of the fairy-tale works of Alan Milne, Christopher Robin, is now 183 million rubles.  Sony Pictures' animated comedy about Count Dracula and his many relatives and friends has been on the leaderboard for five weeks. The box office "Monsters on Vacation 3: The Sea is Calling" sank over the past weekend by 41% and amounted to 36 million rubles. In total, for the entire rental period, the triquel of the popular franchise was able to earn 1.11 billion rubles, not only rising to fifth place in the list of highest grossing releases in 2018, but also ahead of its direct competitor, the long-awaited Disney cartoon "The Incredibles 2". which stopped at the USA box office at around RUB 974.5 million.  No matter how many people the deadly prehistoric shark could devour, its main victims were, perhaps, Tom Cruise and his next "Mission Impossible". Under the pressure of the novelty, the blockbuster, which had retained its leadership in the USA box office for two weeks, lost 67% of its receipts over the weekend and with a result of 36 million rubles. fell in the list from first to fifth place. In total, the sixth film "Mission Impossible: Consequences" now has 512 million rubles. The result is not bad, but the final fees of its predecessor, "Mission Impossible: A Tribe of Outcasts", which in 2015 collected 642 million rubles all the time, will hardly be able to get around the new part of the franchise. The Topic of Article: USAn Box Office: Shark and State Sank Cruise. |
