USAn Boxing Office: Basketball Players Set Records
After the festive weekend, which grosses exceeded 1.89 billion rubles, the proceeds of cinemas, as expected, decreased and amounted to about 847 million rubles. However, for the second week of January this is still a wonderful, moreover, a record result. So, for example, last year, over the same period of time, viewers brought 732 million rubles to the box office of cinemas, and in 2016, the receipts on the first weekend after a series of holidays did not quite reach the level of 700 million rubles. The main merit of such a financially successful beginning of 2018 for the industry, of course, belongs to the current leader of the box office.The USA sports drama about the victory of the Soviet basketball team at the 1972 Olympics "Moving Up" did not meet any competitors on its way and, as expected, only strengthened its position, setting several records at once. The first of them was the training camp for the third weekend. For eight years, the palm belonged to James Cameron's fantastic film Avatar, which earned 296 million rubles, and just a week ago, it was replaced by the blockbuster Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle with an amount of 298 million rubles, but he did not have to rest on his laurels for long. The film directed by Anton Megerdichev, not only for the third week in a row, continued to steadily attract a large number of viewers to the halls, but also earned almost 383 million rubles over the past weekend.  In total, the movie "Moving Up" has already invested 1.89 billion rubles, overtaking the fantasy "The Last Bogatyr" (1.73 billion rubles), which made it the highest-grossing USA film in the entire modern history of our film distribution. If we take foreign films as well, then the sports drama shows the fifth result after Avatar (3.64 billion rubles), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2.32 billion rubles), Zootopia (2, 28 billion rubles) and "The Secret Life of Pets" (2.14 billion rubles). Judging by how the basketball players have dispersed, it will not only be easy for them to reach the level of 2 billion rubles, but to overtake the Pirates is also a very attainable goal. According to the most conservative and conservative forecasts of film analysts, by the end of the show, "Movement Up" should earn at least another 500-550 million rubles.  Adventure thriller "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" has been in the top five for four weeks, three of which it manages to maintain its second place. Over the last weekend, the comedy action with Dwayne Johnson managed to master 82 million rubles, and in total, the tape already has 1.35 billion rubles. Among all films released in 2017, "Jumanji" took the ninth position, leaving behind "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2.32 billion rubles), "Moving up" (1.89 billion rubles), "The Last Hero "(1.73 billion rubles.)," Fast and Furious 8 "(1.65 billion rubles.)," Guardians of the Galaxy. Part 2 ”(1.61 billion rubles),“ Ugly Me 3 ”(1.55 billion rubles),“ Bossa Baby Sucker ”(1.53 billion rubles) and Thor: Ragnarok (1.39 billion rub.).  Although the box office for the musical starring Hugh Jackman sank by almost 72% compared to last week, he managed to move up from fourth to third place. Last weekend brought an additional 70 million rubles to the "Greatest Showman". All in all, the picture about the creator of one of the most popular traveling circuses of the 19th century has earned 393 million rubles to date. Of course, compared to the top heavyweights in the rating, this is a rather modest result, but The Showman was still able to bypass last year's La La Land (331 million rubles) and become the highest-grossing Hollywood musical in our box office.  American horror "Astral 4: The Last Key" has been released so far only as part of a preview, but despite this, starting fees of 53 million rubles. in the current ranking, they secured him fourth place. The next part of the popular franchise continues the story of the psychic Alice Reiner, who knows how to talk to the dead. For the first time a long-running film series appeared on the screens back in 2011, and if the first film earned about 58 million rubles in its debut weekend. and finished rolling with the amount of 111 million rubles, the next two films worked much better. Thus, "Astral: Chapter 2" began its march through cinemas at 149 million rubles, "Astral 3" - from 158 million rubles, and in total, horror films received 320 million rubles from viewers. and 323 million rubles. respectively. It would seem that for the fourth film, the interest of moviegoers should subside. However, the start of The Last Key looks quite promising. And judging by the first reviews, the sequel, although not without drawbacks, has managed to preserve everything for which the audience loves the franchise so much: an interesting mystical story, a gloomy frightening atmosphere, suspense and well-thought-out characters. So it can be expected that the film will show itself at the box office no worse than its predecessors and its results will be in the area of the last film's box office. that at the box office the tape will show itself no worse than its predecessors and its results will be in the area of the last film's box office. that at the box office the tape will show itself no worse than its predecessors and its results will be in the area of the last film's box office.  Fifth place went to another novelty of the past week - the comedy "Who is our dad, dude?" The adventures of two brothers, whose eccentric mother hid the identity of their real father all her life, became the directorial debut of cinematographer Lawrence Sher, whose piggy bank includes such films as "Hangover in Vegas" and "Close Up." Started the tape, starring Owen Wilson, Christopher Walken, J.K. Simmons, Ed Helms and Glenn Close are far weaker than expectations. Despite the fact that initially analysts predicted comedies with a rating of 18+, the gross was about 75 million rubles, during the premiere weekend she managed to earn only 48 million rubles. Although some viewers liked the kind of humor, the overwhelming majority speaks of the film as a banal and even boring action full of all kinds of cliches. The Topic of Article: USAn Boxing Office: Basketball Players Set Records. |
