USAn Box Office: Black Panther melted the Ice
After the holiday weekend, which fell on the Defender of the Fatherland Day, the proceeds of cinemas were expected to decline. The fall in receipts was about 30%, but in total viewers brought about 811 million rubles to the box office of cinemas. Despite the fact that the Hollywood blockbuster took over the palm last week, four lines in the top five box office leaders are occupied by USA films.The American superhero film "Black Panther" finally came out into full-fledged hire, pushing aside the domestic melodrama "Ice", which held first place for two weeks in a row. Ryan Kugler's painting about a young prince of the African country of Wakanda, hidden from human eyes, earned 321 million rubles. In total, the assets of the 18th tape of the Marvel Cinematic Universe already have 734 million rubles. "Black Panther" started out of the box: from February 22, the film was shown only in premium formats, but in wide distribution it was released not on Thursday, as is usually the case, but on Monday, February 26. Similarly, we have previously released such Marvel films as Doctor Strange and Thor: Ragnarok. The blockbuster starring Chadwick Boseman is somewhat inferior to its predecessors. So, Benedict Cumberbatch and his wizard hero in 2016, after four days of previews, received 188 million rubles, the very first official weekend brought the tape 538 million rubles. But the god of thunder performed by Chris Hemsworth last year earned 226 million rubles. and 435 million rubles. respectively. In total, over the same period of time, Strange already had 991 million rubles in its piggy bank, while Thor had 1.03 billion rubles. Despite the slight lag, it is safe to say that, judging by the dynamics of fees, the billion-dollar mark of "Panther" will also conquer, besides, another holiday weekend is ahead.  The USA sports melodrama "Ice" has dropped to the second line. The box office of the film for the third week of distribution sank by 70% and amounted to 117 million rubles. As for the total collection of the musical picture with Aglaya Tarasova and Alexander Petrov, at the moment they have already exceeded 1.26 billion rubles. Now the tape occupies the sixth line in the list of the highest grossing domestic films in the entire modern history of USA film distribution. Above in the rating are only "Crew" (1.5 billion rubles), "Viking" (1.53 billion rubles), "Stalingrad" (1.67 billion rubles), "The Last Bogatyr" (1.73 billion rubles .) and the unattainable "Upward Movement" with record fees of 3.04 billion rubles.  The biographical drama of Alexei German Jr. started from third place. Dovlatov. Initially, the release of the film, which tells about several days in the life of the famous writer Sergei Dovlatov in Leningrad in the early 70s, was supposed to last only four days. Thanks to this unusual solution, the film not only showed record pre-sale results for auteur cinema, but also became the leader in terms of average attendance. The prize received at the recent Berlin Film Festival and the love of the USA audience for the writer himself also played into the hands. As a result, the film grossed almost 99 million rubles for the premiere weekend. For comparison, such films as "Dislike" (98 million rubles) and Leviathan (93 million rubles) by Andrey Zvyagintsev and "Arrhythmia" (87 million rubles) by Boris Khlebnikov, earned similar amounts for the entire rental period. Huge interest from viewers led to the fact that on Saturday the film producers and the distribution company announced the extension of screenings until March 11. The viewers who watched the picture do not cease to praise the leading actor, Serbian actor Milan Maric, as well as Artur Beschastny, who played Joseph Brodsky, and the perfectly recreated atmosphere of the 70s.  With a 67% drop in revenues from the second to the fourth line, the comedy “What Men Talk About. Continuation ". The trip of Quartet I to St. Petersburg for the second weekend earned an additional 67 million rubles, and in total on the account of the picture at the moment there is a little less than 304 million rubles. The tape shows itself at the box office a little better than the original film "What Men Talk About". For the same period of time, he had 247 million rubles in his piggy bank, and in 2010 he earned about 359 million rubles. And if this amount looks quite attainable for the "Continuation", then the results of the sequel to the new picture will definitely not be able to overcome. In 2012, "What else are men talking about" received 438 million rubles from viewers in two weeks. and finished rolling with the amount of 565 million rubles.  Closing the top five is another novelty of this week, the adventure film Beyond Reality. In the center of the plot is a talented swindler named Michael, who gathers a team of people with paranormal abilities to rob a casino. However, everything is not going according to plan, and in order to save his partners, Michael has to act beyond reality, in the mysterious world of the subconscious, where the superpowers of his friends stem from. The main roles in the film were performed by Milos Bikovich, Lyubov Aksenova, Evgeny Stychkin, Yuri Chursin, Aristarkh Venes and Antonio Banderas. At the box office, the tape started much weaker than expected. Analysts predicted the film grosses in the region of 100 million rubles, but "Beyond Reality" managed to earn only 57 million rubles for the premiere weekend. 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