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The slightly higher-than-expected performance of "Runaway Player" has somewhat boosted the confidence of Hollywood's big players.
However, looking at the "extraordinary" declines of many films, Hollywood must not be happy. Variety box office analysts pointed out that due to the current lack of elderly and family audiences in North America, although there is not much impact on R-rated films, family movies have been seriously hit. Now Hollywood executives are still watching whether to extend the new film schedule, although Disney has decided to give "Shangqi" theatrical debut and 45-day window, but whether other movies can enjoy this treatment is difficult to say. Sony Pictures, which has always been responsive, has moved the "Venom" schedule three weeks later and let the "Elf Hostel 4", which was scheduled to be released on October 1, directly on Amazon streaming.
"Runaway Player" won the weekend with more than $50 million, 12% higher than expected before the screening. 25 of the film's 42 markets took first place at the weekend, with North America being the 7th highest since the pandemic. Overseas, it is 9% ahead of "Black and White Witch Kuira" at the same exchange rate. A Disney spokesperson told the media that the film's CA audience rating is A, and the PostTrak recommendation index is 4.5 stars, and it is believed that the film will have more than 3 times the staying power in North America and overseas. IMAX grossed $3.03 million on 620 screens, with 29% of the North American box office coming from special screens such as IMAX,PLF,DBOX.
Influenced by the Tanabata Festival, the famous Hong Kong director Chen Musheng's posthumous work "Anger and Serious Case" exceeded 100 million yuan on a single day on Saturday, becoming the highest single day of the film, which not only helped to achieve a weekend reversal, but also became the self-made "Wrestling! "Daddy" has had a non-private film for the first time in four years on the 16th day of release. The film's final cumulative box office fell roughly 1.2 billion yuan, which was the first billion-dollar film in his career, and it was also the second time that a Chen director film entered the top ten of the year after "Baby Project" in 2006. The film is scheduled to be released in Hong Kong this week, and it is reported that since last week, there have been advance scenes that have accumulated to 350,000 Hong Kong dollars.
The acclaimed "Task Force X: Full Assemblies" performed rather badly, with a sharp drop over the weekend that exceeded expectations. Among them, North America plummeted 71.5%, the first in the history of the DC Universe, and the final cumulative box office may not even exceed the first day box office of the previous game of $64.89 million. Overseas, the old market fell by 58% in this year's Hollywood blockbusters only slightly stronger than "Black Widow", and the newly opened Japanese painting was only 200 million yen in three days under the blessing of Bon Hugh. 》。 The only place to hold back is DC Back Garden Brazil, which fell just 22% the following weekend and now totals 14.93 million reais to rank 5th of the year.
"Fast and Furious 9" opened in Taiwan for NT$50.99 million, the highest opening since the current round of resumption of work in Taiwan, and also made the weekend market a new high of 183% year-on-year. The outstanding performance of overseas markets further pushed its global box office to $681 million, and it is believed that it is only a matter of time before it breaks the 700 million mark after its release in Italy this week. Another notable record is that the film has won the weekend number one in all 62 markets released so far, which is the first Hollywood blockbuster to achieve this achievement after "Avengers: Endgame".
The Korean movie "Water Cave" was recorded by 922,000 spectators in the five days of release, setting a record for the highest opening and highest weekend of Korean local films in 2021. Starring well-known Han Sung-cha Seung-won and Lee Kwang-so, the disaster comedy tells the story of a family who had been preparing for 11 years to buy a house to raise funds, but within a minute of buying the house, the house fell into a super-large pothole 500 meters underground.
Interestingly, despite the film's cost of 15 billion won, distributor Showbox said that the film's profit and loss point was only 2 million. Another film, "Mogadishu", which is currently being released, has exceeded 2.3 million people, and distributor Lotte has revealed to reporters that it is very close to the profit and loss point of 3 million passengers. According to the internal profit calculation reports disclosed by the industry before the epidemic, their break-even trips should be 3.5 million and 6 million, respectively. According to the information of listed companies, South Korea's four major film companies lost more than 23 billion won in April and June alone, while the demand for returning their films has been declining, and it is not known whether they have found more ways to make a profit or just a digital game on the book.
The performance of the popular R-rated sequel "Hold Your Breath 2" launched by Mu bao Company is quite OK, equal to the $10 million opening forecast given by Sony, of course, this data is 60% lower than the previous game. The north American biopic "Respect," which aims to be released by MGM in North America, ranked fifth over the weekend, telling the story of the life of "Soul Queen" Aretha Franklin, and according to the survey, 48% of the audience on the first day of the survey was African-American, showing a lot of responses from the black community.
Paramount's Canadian co-production animation "Wang Wang Team Makes a Great Achievement Movie" released by Paramount will be released this week in 34 markets including North America and Germany, and will land on Paramount+ on Friday after the release of 6 overseas early markets. The sci-fi thriller "Remembrance Puzzle" from Warner Bros. is also the main film of the week, and will first land in 28 markets led by North America and the United Kingdom.