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According to Bloomberg, nearly 2 years after the epidemic, there are still 640 films in North America that have not opened their doors after being closed for epidemic prevention reasons, accounting for 12% of the 5500 commercial theaters in the United States. It is worth noting that more than half of these theaters that may permanently close have only 3 or less screens, indicating that small theaters have been particularly affected by this epidemic. In the 1950s, the popularity of television brought a devastating blow to the film industry, and the number of cinemas in Europe and the United States fell by 65% in 15 years, but correspondingly, multi-screen composite theaters began to appear on a large scale, and screen technology was constantly updated, and finally successfully stabilized the market with differentiated competition. This round of the epidemic can also be said to be a reshuffle, and perhaps only those theaters that can bring a truly "big screen" experience can survive.
Disney's animated Full House fell just 32 percent last weekend to $150 million at the global box office. Among them, the trend of North America is better than that of "Dream Quest" and "Ocean Wonderland", and it is very easy for North America to break 100 million. Overseas, the film continues to win consecutive titles in 11 markets, and is now the highest-grossing animation film in Latin America since the epidemic. Among them, Colombia has accumulated more than 31.9 billion Colombian pesos, surpassing "The Incredibles 2" to become the second highest-grossing animation work in the country's history, and the 7th highest film in the entire history of cinema, attracting more than 2.9 million viewers in just 18 days, accounting for 12.4% of the entire market this year.
Steven Spielberg's song and dance film West End Story didn't perform well at the box office, falling below pre-screening forecasts in almost all markets. In fact, not only film critics rated its audience reputation is also good, of which the CS audience score is A, the PostTrak recommendation index is 4.5 stars, 88% of the audience gives positive reviews, but it does not seem to translate into box office capabilities. With only $10.57 million in North America in three days, it was significantly lower than the conservative pre-screening forecast of $15 million, and the industry was generally not optimistic that he could match the performance of "Chicago" in 2002 of $171 million. Overseas earned $4.4 million in 37 markets, but won the only weekend title in the UK for £1.298 million, and even 12 markets did not make the top five weekends.
Although the next blockbuster will crowd the market, "West End Story", which has a word-of-mouth advantage and an Oscar bonus, is not without the opportunity to recover the cost of $100 million. 44 years ago, in December, "Weekend Night Fever" and Steven Spielberg's classic science fiction film "Third Kind of Contact" were released in the United States in the same week, and although "Third Type Of Contact" won seven consecutive weekend titles and collected $77 million in film rental income (equivalent to $125 million at the box office), "Weekend Night Fever" also earned $71.46 million (equivalent to $131 million at the box office) with its stamina, which began John Travolta's legendary film actor career. Historically, it is not wise to release musicals that have a strong appeal to women two weeks before Christmas, and should normally be placed in the week of Christmas. But these two weeks may allow the film's high quality to spread through word of mouth, bringing surprises during the Christmas holidays.
Lady Gaga's "Gucci Family" showed a very strong trend last weekend, falling 41% in North America to a total of $41.08 million, Global responsible for 38 overseas markets fell 29% to a total of $41.88 million, MGM was responsible for 25 overseas markets fell 44% and accumulated $10.71 million, and the global box office could exceed 100 million yuan before this weekend. Among them, Germany performed the best, falling only 7.4% in the second week of release to accumulate 3.55 million euros, surpassing the same period of "The Birth of a Superstar". Such excellent market performance proves that the audience feedback of this film is very good, and people can't help but look forward to the performance of the next awards season.
The children's adventure comedy "Big Red Dog Cliffor" added 19 new overseas markets last week, accumulating more than $62 million at the global box office. Of these, 21 old markets fell just 28 percent over the weekend, especially in Poland, which fell 19 percent and totaled 4.55 million PLN. The new market segment finished second in eight markets, including £1.293 million in the UK, 100.7 million rubles in Russia and P16.4 million in Mexico, all of Which were Paramount's best animated openings of the year.
The new french super-hit comedy series "Dusches 4" squeezed into the stick list, but the word-of-mouth box office doubled down the street. In terms of word-of-mouth, Alllocine, France's largest film portal, after more than 1100 people scored, the average score of the 5-point system was only 1.8 to sit firmly in the worst series, and a large number of viewers complained about the disastrous perception on social media. At the box office, it attracted only 757,000 spectators in France, setting a record for the series, and only 5,896 in French-speaking Switzerland lost to the following week of "Gucci Family". Although director Olivier Baruch announced in an interview before the premiere that a sequel was in preparation and planned to be released in 2024, sources close to the producer EMI revealed to this writer that if there is a major commercial failure of the film, there is a high probability that the sequel plan will be rejected internally.
The Voice of Joy 2 continues to be well received in some small markets. Among them, Saudi Arabia's revenue of 1.18 million riyals in 46 theaters is twice that of "Pet Secret 2", 60 theaters in the United Arab Emirates also have 920,000 dirhams in the account for the best opening of this year's Universal Animation, and the total of 870,000 US dollars in 11 Arab countries in the Entire Middle East is the second highest opening of Hollywood animation during the epidemic. The European side earned $190,000 on 231 screens in five Balkan markets, with Slovenia and Cyprus winning the weekend with €37,000 and €23,000 respectively. Israel fell 61% at the end of the holiday, with a total box office of NIS 4.24 million.
"Chosin Lake" remained in the top three weekends of the weekend in the fifth week of hong Kong and successfully exceeded 20 million Hong Kong dollars, becoming the second mainland film to exceed 20 million in hong Kong since "Heroes", and the global box office has exceeded 904 million US dollars. "Arashi: 5× 20th Anniversary Concert Tour "Memoirs" in Japan, relying on the help of silent aid, fell by only 21% over the weekend to a total of 3.14 billion yen, exceeding $30 million and 1 million times worldwide, significantly breaking the concert documentary box office record held by "BTS: Bringing The Soul".
This week, the market will usher in Marvel's blockbuster "Spider-Man: Heroes Are Homeless", according to Comscore real-time data it has the highest pre-sales of the year in 23 of the 24 markets, of which North America is the second highest in film history and only lags behind "Avengers 4" by 27%, the United Kingdom is 31% behind, and Spain is behind by 26%. Taking into account the epidemic as a whole, the global pre-sale is equivalent to more than 60% of the same period of "Reunion 4", and Hollywood analysts believe that it is expected to win more than 500 million US dollars in the world. The Chinese mainland market does not yet have any slot news, and even if it is optimistic, it will not be released until after mid-January next year.