North American box office: "Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises" "weak" on the top

Los Angeles, March 25 (China News Service) -- The most dazzling star has also left the center of the stage. This past weekend, "Black Panther," the first five-time winner at the North American box office in nearly nine years, finally relinquished the title and was "weakly" taken over by the new film "Pacific Rim: Uprising."

North American box office statistics website boxofficemojo.com released film market data on March 25, and 55 films closed at the weekend box office of about $129 million, down 2.9% month-on-month.

Universal Pictures' sci-fi action film "Pacific Rim: Thunder ComeBack" launched on the 23rd rose to the top of the latest North American box office charts with about $28 million. Compared with the hot weekend of the premiere of "Black Panther" with more than 200 million US dollars more than a month ago, the US$150 million "Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again" has been considered by the industry to be not outstanding.

The "Pacific Rim" science fiction film series, which debuted as "Mecha Fights Monsters", debuted in 2013. The director of the first "Pacific Rim" was Gilmour del Toro, who won best director at the 90th Academy Awards earlier this month for "The Shape of Water." Nearly 5 years later, Steven Dinett, a veteran producer in the American television drama industry, crossed the big screen and directed his film debut "Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again", which tells the future battle of mankind to defend the earth from giant beasts in 111 minutes. At present, the film has a cumulative box office of about 151 million US dollars worldwide, and the contribution rate of international box offices outside North America is more than 80%.

Some viewers commented that as a sequel to a major blood change, "Pacific Rim: Thunder Resurgence" is far less amazing than the first one, feeling like an assembly line product, and the routine is obvious. But many fans also said that this is a "fully qualified special effects mecha blockbuster", full of male hormones, not only the battle scenes are wonderful, the plot arrangement is also creative.

On the occasion of the new film "Thunder Comeback", the premiere of the action-adventure film "Black Panther", which has dominated the box office for more than a month, retreated to the second place in this issue with a decline of about $16.66 million and a decline of 37.5%. As the highest-grossing superhero film in the history of American cinema, "Black Panther" has retired, and the film has now grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide.

In addition, the family film "I Can Only Imagine" retained the third place with a decline of $13.84 million and a 19.1% decline. Paramount Pictures' new film, "Ginomyo and Juliet 2: Sherlock Gnomes," which was released on the same day as Pacific Rim: Thunder Rising, is no. 4 on the list with $10.6 million.

The other top ten rankings in this issue have also been greatly shuffled, including the action-adventure film Tomb Raider, the fantasy film A Wrinkle in Time, the comedy drama "Love, Simon", the feature film "Paul, Apostle of Christ", the action comedy "Game Night", the drama film "Midnight Sun" ( Midnight Sun) finished 5th to 10th, respectively.

This upcoming weekend, the feature film "God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness," the thriller "Tyler Perry's Acrimony," the action film "Baaghi 2" and the comedy "Finding Your Feet" will all be released on March 30. (End)