After the Thanksgiving holiday, the North American film market quickly entered the pre-storm silence.
The pre-sale of "Spider-Man: Homeless Heroes", released on December 17, is hot and almost comparable to "Avengers 4".
However, before that, the North American market was really too quiet.
The new version of West End Story was supposed to be a pre-Christmas warm-up.
Because this is the new work of the big director Spielberg, the cost of the cost of 100 million US dollars;
And the pre-screening reputation is very good, it is one of the highest rated movies in Hollywood this year, and it has become a hit in the awards season.
After the screening, the audience rating was released.
IMDb 8.1, CinemaScore Cinema Audience Rating A.
But.
With the exclusive theatrical release support of distributor Disney, "West Side Story" premiered on Friday and grossed only $4.1 million;
Saturday did not rise but fell, but also by "Full House of Magic", losing the single-day box office champion;
The first three days added up, roughly quoted $10.5 million, just over 10 million, just a narrow victory to win the North American box office charts.
There are only 4.4 million overseas paintings, and the cost of more than 100 million yuan is going to be lost.
I thought that "West End Story" could re-drive the song and dance film boom along with Netflix's "Countdown".
As a result, it turns out that the success of "Philharmonic City" in terms of word-of-mouth box office double explosion is already difficult to replicate.
Thanks to this pearl in the past, hollywood has had song and dance masterpieces almost every year in the past 5 years.
The King of the Circus;
"Mamma Mia 2";
"Happy Man 2" and so on.
"West End Story" was originally scheduled to be released last year, dragged on for a year, or failed to escape the fate of market failure.
These song and dance films have a better reputation, and the box office can return the cost, but the overall can only be decent;
This year's market is not good, even if the word of mouth is good, like the previous "In the Highlands", but it is a situation of applause.
This may lead to the subsequent song and dance films moving closer to the direction of the small-cost awards season, and only the big directors will have the opportunity to shoot big productions.
Disney's animation "Full House" in the third weekend of release fell only 28.3% to 9.425 million, breaking $150 million at the global box office, and is about to surpass "Peter Rabbit 2" as the highest-grossing animated film this year.
However, if China's "Lion Boy" can miraculously explode 1 billion yuan in two weeks, it can be a whistle to cut off Hu.
After the spread of the screening, this national comic dark horse opened a Douban 8.3 points, it seems that it is not only to grab the annual dark horse of "Yang Ming Liwan", but also to impact the domestic annual best.
Whether the box office can break out later depends on whether the publicity can keep up with it, and the play of "Manslaughter 2" in the same period.
Therefore, on December 17, the Chinese market, like North America, will also lead to a wave of big outbreaks.
The previous weekend was due to the withdrawal of Gu Tianle's "Assassination Storm", the single-week market was helpless to fall below 400 million, and it was too quiet before the storm.
"Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" successfully won the weekly box office with 166 million yuan, accumulating more than 330 million, and finally only 500 million at most;
"Fame and Fortune" fell by about 50 million, closing at 96.99 million in a single week, and is finally expected to break the 900 million mark.
The new film "We Once Loved Each Other" made its first weekend 22.61 million, as a movie starring Guo Caijie, "lived up to expectations" and received a large number of one-star bad reviews, impacting the annual bad films.
"Lion Boy" continued to expand its on-demand scale, winning 15.5 million ahead of schedule, surpassing the 14.31 million of "Chosin Lake", ranking fourth at the box office in a single week.
Suddenly, there is another potential work, and the end of the year is a continuous explosion of domestic dark horses, which is too valuable for the Chinese market that lacks imported blockbusters.
As of December 13, the total box office of the mainland exceeded 45.1 billion yuan.
In the end, whether it can successfully pass 47 billion, or can achieve a super outbreak sprint of 50 billion, depends on the "Manslaughter 2" and other New Year's masterpieces, whether it can kill a blockbuster of at least 2 billion magnitude to lead.
As for the issue of "Spider-Man: Homeless" being introduced or not.
The answer is already obvious.
Either january 7 next year, like Japan, or see you on the Internet.
If there is really the idea of rushing to break the performance of 50 billion at the end of the year, it is only the only luxury of parachuting Christmas.