Box office: USAns won't remember the stop word
Traditionally, the second week of February is the period for the release of potential box-office champions on the big screens. This time distributors gave the green light to several sequels of successful projects that came out a couple of years ago, preferring them to Oscar nominees. By the way, the latter received humiliatingly few copies as opposed to the films, which will be discussed below. So, the twenty most profitable tapes brought in 957 million rubles for the specified period. - a reason for the delight of producers, but by no means real cinephiles.The fact is that the first place, sadly enough, was taken by the continuation of the criticized erotic melodrama "Fifty Shades of Gray" in every way. The painting " Fifty Shades Darker " was received by USA journalists even worse than the original. They unanimously noted that the creators of the second part managed to ruin even the little that was bearable in the first film. The plot of the sequel became completely absurd, and the refusal to film the perverted bed fantasies of the author E.L. James led to the fact that even completely undemanding spectators became unbearably bored during the sessions of this for no one knew the craft.  Nevertheless, neither the complete decay of timid sympathy between the heroes, nor the disgusting dialogues did not deter our compatriots from going to the cinemas. The brainchild of James Foley earned 381 million rubles at the start, which, of course, is worse than the performance of the original, which fished out of the wallets of USAs 705 million rubles., but still not bad for a representative of this genre. Moreover, distributors in one of their comments regarding the success of the project at the box office said that they are very much looking forward to an influx of funds during the upcoming long weekend. In addition, according to them, the so-called"female repertoire"is not expected until the release of "Beauty and the Beast". A slightly primitive scheme of dividing the target audience, unfortunately, works, and we are forced to predict that the second "<  The second place of the box office was taken by a much more successful sequel. Cool killer John Wick performed by Keanu Reeves, adored by USAs, became a welcome guest throughout the CIS. Its inhabitants gave the hero 161 million rubles. , and thus the film Chad Stahelski has already managed to surpass the final fees of its predecessor ( 157 million rubles ) ... Compared to other action films, the tape turned out to be head and shoulders above Jack Reacher 2 ( RUB 122 million ) and Jason Bourne ( RUB 144 million ).The undoubted success is due to the fact that the creators of the picture gave their viewers everything that they promised in the promotional materials and improved their own developments from the first part. Thus, " John Wick 2 " became an even larger celebration of violence. It still combines the beauty of combat choreography and efficiency in its laconicism, furious action with a variety of gunfights and chases and a fascinating, albeit uncomplicated plot. And, of course, the icy and almost invulnerable title character became the cherry on top. The third line went to another newcomer of the past weekend - the spin-off of the once-made noise from the cartoon “Lego. Film". This witty example of the most outrageous and inventive toy advertising campaign in film history was so popular with the public that they resented it when they did not see it in the nominees for the " Oscar - 2015 ". However, the animated film managed to become a box office hit - it received 221 million rubles only in our country. As for the “ Lego Movie: Batman ” branch, its performance is still more modest - only 125.5 million rubles. for the debut weekend. And the reception of the toy The Dark Knight is not so warm here than at home. And yet the cartoon Chris McKay is too early to write off,  Reviewers again showed rare unanimity, praising the light cartoon with a luscious picture, humor for all ages and pleasant references to comics and cinema in general. Many of them lacked the enthusiasm and wit of the founders of the " Lego " franchise, Chris Miller and Phil Lord. However, the picture is very good as a parody of blockbusters - the adaptation of comics in general and the DC universe in particular, which has slipped into excessive seriousness. In fourth place is the last major rental novelty - the final part of the "Resident Evil" series. The film with the subtitle " The Final Chapter " has been released for limited release so far and has performed well in preview format. Team Paul W. S. Anderson received from USA fans of evil spirits and Milla Jovovich 96.5 million rubles . However, one should not expect a significant leap from the picture - the reviews about it are extremely negative.  Both the audience and critics were disappointed, who noted that the script of the tape turned out with a very rough set of cliches and incoherent sketches, ragged editing prevented the enjoyment of signature fights, and the once original atmosphere was completely lost. It's a shame that the ending of the long-running franchise came out so toothless and stupid.Closes our review still striving to conquer the cherished billion domestic fantastic action movie " Attraction ". He lagged behind his closest competitor quite a bit, earning 96 million rubles . All in all, in his piggy bank 932 million rubles . The so-called grandmaster's milestone is close, but the movie Fyodor Bondarchuk is being let down by movie fans who are rapidly losing interest in it. For comparison, "Ekipazh" and "Stalingrad" during their third weeks lost only 48% and 52% of revenue, respectively, while Attraction"dropped by 63% . It is difficult to make any unambiguous predictions for the future path of the project in the box office: on the one hand, it has no competitors in the genre niche, on the other, on the approach such loud premieres as "The Great Wall" and even causing continuous sarcastic grins "Defenders". They will undoubtedly attract the very audience that benefited Bondarchuk's team . The Topic of Article: Box office: USAns won't remember the stop word. |
