USAn Box Office: Poirot surrounded by superheroes
After three weekends in a row, the total box office receipts of the USA box office rose above 1 billion rubles, the expected decline began. Although the results of the past weekend can still be called solid. In total, the proceeds of the cinemas amounted to about RUB 934 million.The film adaptation of the comics about Thor and the approaching end of all things has been replaced by another superhero blockbuster - Justice League. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg team up to fight a powerful foe that threatens the safety of the entire planet. The film is directed by Zach Snyder based on graphic novels from DC and stars Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher. In the USA box office, the picture started at 376 million rubles, which is, although a good result, but still quite modest in comparison with other projects of the DC cinematic universe. So, the tape "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" last year mastered 530 million rubles for the premiere weekend, and "Suicide Squad" was able to earn 762 million rubles at all. True, the "Justice League" managed to surpass the starting fees for the solo film about Wonder Woman, which in June this year began its march through USA cinemas from the mark of 226 million rubles. As a result, earning just under 485 million rubles. But the results of Patty Jenkins' creation in our box office cannot be called outstanding. In dollar terms, the film was able to raise about $ 8 million, while in the US it received $ 412 million, and in the world a total of about $ 409 million. But the results of Patty Jenkins' creation in our box office cannot be called outstanding. In dollar terms, the film was able to raise about $ 8 million, while in the US it received $ 412 million, and in the world a total of about $ 409 million. But the results of Patty Jenkins' creation in our box office cannot be called outstanding. In dollar terms, the film was able to raise about $ 8 million, while in the US it received $ 412 million, and in the world a total of about $ 409 million.  Critics and viewers who watched the picture reacted to it rather coolly. Of course, some believe that DC and Warner Bros. managed to fix some of the errors that accompanied all their recent films. But Justice League could not become a salvation or a reboot for the MCU. The long-suffering film had a change of director, and large-scale reshoots, and attempts to fit the initially almost three-hour action into a two-hour limit. All this, of course, could not but affect the final result. No matter how hard Joss Whedon tried to make the story started by Snyder easier and more fun, it did not work out to radically change it. On the contrary, when watching it, one gets the impression that the film was never able to determine the tone of the narrative. The traditionally dark and depressing atmosphere of DC blockbusters tried to dilute with jokes, but the rest of the problems did not go away. Reviewers complain about a boring script, lack of character disclosure, an indistinct villain, an unforgettable soundtrack, weak action and special effects. Despite all the aspirations of Warner Bros. and DC to catch up with Marvel, which, year after year, continues to release increasingly successful box office films about the adventures of superheroes in their universe until they get it. until they do it. until they do it.  The second place was kept by British director Kenneth Branagh's film Murder on the Orient Express. Over the past weekend, the adaptation of the novel of the same name by Agatha Christie has mastered an additional 187 million rubles. All in all, in the piggy bank of the detective drama, in which, in addition to Bran himself, such Hollywood stars of the first magnitude as Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer played the main roles, there are already 652 million rubles. The picture shows one of the best results among detective films that have been released in USA in recent years. Murder is noticeably ahead of such projects as, for example, Inferno (585 million rubles), Sherlock Holmes (501 million rubles), Angels and Demons (435 million rubles), The Da Vinci Code (305 million rubles) and "Girl on the Train" (217 million rubles).  The leader of the last weekend, the film comics "Thor: Ragnarok", has dropped to the third line of the financial rating. The weekly fees of the superhero tape sank by almost 70% and amounted to 136 million rubles. In total, the continuation of the franchise about the god of thunder Thor has been able to earn 1.27 billion rubles to date. Thus, the picture bypassed the results of the second film "Thor 2: The Kingdom of Darkness", which in the fall of 2013 received 1.17 billion rubles from viewers, and rose to the seventh line in the list of the highest grossing releases of this year.  But the third place in the ranking of the highest grossing tapes of 2017 is occupied by the USA comedy co-produced by Disney and Yellow, Black and White studios - "The Last Bogatyr". Over the past weekend, the film's piggy bank was replenished by 79 million rubles. In total, the adventures of a motley company headed by the son of Ilya Muromets earned an impressive 1.63 billion rubles. More this year, only "Pirates of the Caribbean: No Tales Are Told" (2.32 billion rubles) and "Fast and Furious 8" (1.65 billion rubles) were the only ones that managed to get into their assets. In addition, the film directed by Dmitry Dyachenko became the second highest grossing USA film in the entire modern history of our film distribution, forcing Viking (1.53 billion rubles) and "Crew" (1.5 billion rubles) to move. The leading position so far remains with the military drama "Stalingrad", which four years ago was able to earn 1.67 billion rubles.<  Closes the five most successful films on the basis of the past weekend, another USA film - the comedy of Alexander Molochnikov "Myths". In his debut project, the director brought together such USA film stars as Fyodor Bondarchuk, Sergei Bezrukov, Ivan Urgant, Ksenia Rappoport, Victoria Isakova, Paulina Andreeva, Irina Rozanova, Maxim Sukhanov and Andrey Smolyakov. In the story, a beggar foreigner played by the Greek actor Yannis Papadopoulos, by pure chance, finds himself in the thick of the life of the rich and famous. It turns out that all our ideas about the life of stars are myths. In fact, things are much worse. Trying to help the stars solve their problems, the hero falls in love with the wife of the big mayor and decides to do everything so that she is with him. According to the reviewers, the young actor and theater director Molochnikov turned out to be a kind of mixture of satire, musical and romantic melodrama, however, the first pancake, as they say, came out lumpy. The narrative of the picture looks chaotic, and the characters do not cause any interest or any kind of empathy. Scattered stories, far-fetched situations and not the best humor are unlikely to help the film at the box office. And nevertheless, during the premiere weekend, "Mifam" managed to earn an amount of 33 million rubles. The tape started at the level of another film with the participation of a large number of famous actors, the film almanac “About Love. For adults only ”. At the beginning of this autumn, he managed to master about 35 million rubles on the first weekend. 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