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Fifty Shades dominate the USAn box office

Image Thanks to the release of a high-profile Hollywood novelty, the final part of the popular Fifty Shades of Gray franchise, the revenue of cinemas last week increased by almost 25% compared to the not very successful financially first weekend in February and amounted to about 806 million rubles. Of course, the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky has already managed to complain about too many sessions of the tape and the fact that it "brought down a number of our wonderful films." Meanwhile, although with financial losses, three places in the top five still remained with USA paintings.

No matter how much critics scolded the franchise, fans of the story of the difficult relationship between Anastacia Steele and Christian Gray happily went to watch the triquel and made it an absolute triumph of the box office last weekend. The main characters, played by Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, have finally passed into the status of spouses, but they continue to fight with each other, and at the same time with the danger hanging over them unexpectedly and the ghosts of the past. Like the previous installments, Fifty Shades of Freedom is based on the novel by the English writer E.L. James, and again directed by James Foley, the director of the second film in the franchise. Analysts predicted 350 million rubles for the picture. starting fees. As a result, Fifty Shades began their march through the cinemas with a much larger amount - 409 million rubles, improving the result of its predecessor. "Fifty Shades Darker" last year also came out on the eve of Valentine's Day and earned 381 million rubles for the premiere weekend. But the first part of the franchise in 2015 started directly on the holiday weekend and then collected 705 million rubles from fans of James's work.

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Judging by the reviews of those who watched the picture, the audience, as in that anecdote, “cried, injected, but continued to eat the cactus”. They may have gone to the theaters hoping for the best, but the film did little to surprise them. It remained a typical melodrama, which they tried with all their might to dilute with thriller elements and some semblance of drama. For the third film in a row, viewers continue to complain about the lack of chemistry between the characters, a huge number of cliches and cliches, a weak and ridiculous script, as if written by an insecure schoolgirl, and the notorious "red room" and the spicy scenes so anticipated by fans for the final part of the film series were moved to the background. Some reviewers, of course, managed to find pluses in "Shades of Freedom", the main of which, however, is that this is the final part of the franchise.

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Another novelty of the past week started from the second place - the continuation of the USA comedy "Women against Men". If in the original film the heroes went on a honeymoon to Cuba, where the eternal war between men and women unfolded, then this time, already in the status of divorced, the whole company met in Crimea. Among the performers of the main roles are the same Nastasya Samburskaya, Natalya Rudova, Maria Kravchenko, Alexander Golovin, Denis Kosyakov and Roman Yunusov, but this time the director's chair was taken by the scriptwriter of the first part Leonid Margolin. Started "Crimean Holidays" somewhat weaker than expectations. Analysts predicted the sequel will collect around 80 million rubles, but for the first weekend the tape managed to collect only 63 million rubles. The last film in the spring of 2015 mastered 81 million rubles at the start, and in total he managed to earn about 152 million rubles.
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The sports drama "Moving Up" was able to maintain its position with a result of 58 million rubles. remained in third place in the ranking. In total, 2.96 billion rubles are already listed in the box office of the highest-grossing USA film in the history of modern distribution. Of course, before the results of "Avatar" with its 3.64 billion rubles. it is still far away, but the conquest of the coveted mark of 3 billion rubles. just around the corner.

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Under the onslaught of the long-awaited continuation of the BDSM franchise, the leader of the last week, the adaptation of Sergei Minaev's novel "Selfie", immediately dropped to the fourth line. The fees for the thriller starring Konstantin Khabensky sank by more than 60% compared to the premiere weekend and amounted to RUB 47 million. With a budget of 115 million rubles. the film directed by Nikolai Khomeriki has earned 202 million rubles to date.

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Closing the list of box office leaders is the crime drama Oscar winner Martin McDonagh, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri." The tape with Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell in the lead roles tells the story of a woman named Mildred Hayes, whose daughter was brutally murdered several months ago, but the criminals were never found. Therefore, she decides to take a desperate and bold step - she rents three billboards with a message to the head of the police at the entrance to the city, which, of course, displeases the local authorities. The film was released on USA screens on February 1, and according to the results of the premiere weekend with an amount of 50 million rubles. then took the sixth line of the financial rating. With a minimal drop in fees, only about 18%, and an excellent "sundress" for the second week of distribution, the picture received 41 million rubles from viewers, which allowed her to climb a step higher and take fifth place. All in all, Three Billboards have already earned 109 million rubles. This is Martin McDonagh's most successful film in USA at the moment. In 2012, his "Seven Psychopaths" received 90 million rubles for all the time, and "Lay Down in Bruges" with Colin Farrell in 2008 collected only about 17 million rubles.

MacDonagh's drama was appreciated not only by critics and the jury of various festivals and film awards (the film already has a Venice Show prize, several Actors Guild awards, and four Golden Globes), but also the audience. In their reviews, they never cease to praise the plot, the deep and thought-out script, biting dialogues, black humor, atmospheric soundtrack, thanks to which the picture partly turns into a kind of modern Western, and the fantastic play of the leading actors.

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Author: Jake Pinkman


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