Last weekend, "The Little Mermaid" premiered simultaneously in 52 markets around the world.
In the absence of blockbuster new films in the same period, coupled with the slowdown at the box office of "Fast and Furious 10" and "Guardians of the Galaxy 3", "The Little Mermaid" easily won the global box office championship last weekend as soon as it was released, but the film encountered unprecedented bad reviews and box office pressure overseas.
The box office broke 1.2 billion in the first weekend, "The Little Mermaid" won the global championship, and China was the seventh largest overseas box office!
According to the statistics of the North American box office website, as of May 28, the box office of "The Little Mermaid" exceeded 95.5 million US dollars in the first weekend of North America in 3 days, defeating new Hollywood films such as "The Fall of Kandahar" and "The Machine Is Crazy" to win the championship.
It can be seen that although the film is also very controversial in North America, it has not affected the box office results.
According to statistics, 35% of the movie's first-weekend ticket buyers were African-American, 25% were Latino, and only 26% were white. Perhaps you can understand why Disney made such a zzzq movie, to a large extent, the audience composition of the North American film market has changed. The biggest problem with The Little Mermaid is probably that it doesn't take into account the cost.
The $250 million movie is too high for the North American market alone. But "The Little Mermaid" met with a cold reception in overseas markets.
As of May 28, the film's largest overseas box office was Mexico, where "The Little Mermaid" won $8.5 million in its opening weekend, followed by the British box office with $6.3 million.
This time it was the turn of the North American market and the world to retrograde.
China and South Korea are very important box offices in Hollywood, especially the Chinese market can often produce as high box office results as the North American market, but this time Chinese audiences only contributed 2.54 million US dollars in the opening weekend box office, which is only the seventh largest overseas box office of the film, and the quality of the film has been criticized by the whole Internet.
The Korean market has always been a vassal of Hollywood, and this time it also "defected", and as of May 28, the film's box office in South Korea in its first weekend was $2.8 million, not much better than the Chinese market. At present, "The Little Mermaid" only 68.3 million US dollars in the first weekend of 51 overseas box office, which is not comparable to a market in North America, it can be said that this film really offended most of the world's audience.
At present, the global box office of the film in the first weekend is 163 million US dollars, which is about 1.2 billion yuan in renminbi, and the production cost of the film is 250 million US dollars, that is, 1.76 billion yuan, and the pressure to return the capital is huge.
In the Chinese mainland market, less than 500,000 viewers have seen "The Little Mermaid", but the popularity on the Internet is very high, and many netizens wonder whether this movie is good or not, because many people have not seen it simply to vent their emotions.
Here to talk about personal feelings, aside from the main controversy of the protagonist's "blackening", "The Little Mermaid" is still not a good movie, the 1989 animated film of the same name is only 83 minutes long, telling a simple and beautiful fairy tale is just right, but this live-action version is as long as 135 minutes, but the plot is basically copied from the animated version, and the plot is seriously injected. Basically, it is to use songs to fill the time, and audiences who don't like song and dance films are even more difficult.
Although the movie cost $250 million, the special effects costume props were really crude.
What prince, princess, king, etc., the title is more scary than the other, and as a result, the castle palace is more shabby than the other, and there are no big scenes in the whole film, I really can't figure out where so much money is spent, you say underwater special effects are expensive? This film is not to mention "Avatar 2", even the underwater scene of "Black Panther 2" can kill it in seconds.
Overall, "The Little Mermaid" is also substandard as a popcorn special effects blockbuster.
The global box office of "Fast and Furious 10" exceeded 500 million US dollars, and Chinese audiences failed to become saviors!
Last weekend's global box office runner-up was "Fast and Furious 10", as of May 28, the film's global box office exceeded 500 million US dollars, of which the Chinese mainland market accounted for 110 million US dollars, which is the largest box office of the movie. Unfortunately, the production cost of "Fast and Furious 10" is as high as 340 million US dollars, and in the face of a sharp decline in the global box office market, the loss of the film is already a foregone conclusion, and the Chinese audience who has repeatedly saved the box office of the series can not bear it.
"Guardians of the Galaxy 3" won the third place at the global box office last weekend.
As of May 28, the film's global box office has exceeded 730 million US dollars, of which the North American market is 304 million US dollars, and the Chinese market is 79 million US dollars, which are the largest box office and the largest overseas box office of the film, respectively. The film has basically entered the closing stage, and the probability of breaking $800 million at the final box office is unlikely.
Compared with the previous game's global box office of $864 million, "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" is quite acceptable.
After all, most of Marvel's series sequels have plummeted at the box office in recent years, and if the fifth stage is still such an assembly line quality, only knowing how to sell feelings and zzzq, Marvel may also be quickly abandoned by the audience.