In the 15th week of 2024 (April 12-14), the North American box office charts were released, and the overall market hit a total of $72.51 million, a slight decrease of 16% from the 14th week.
The top three are "Civil War", "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" and "Ghostbusters: Frozen City".
A total of four new films are on the list this week.
In tenth place is the Australian horror film "Spider in the House", which only collected $1.2 million in the first three days of the weekend, itself a foreign film, and failed to be released on a large scale, so it could not get a high box office.
The re-release of Universal's classic animation "Shrek 2" reported $1.35 million at the box office, ranking ninth.
Julio Quintana's film "Mustang Miracle" earned $1.39 million at the box office in three days, ranking eighth.
The film is starring Dennis Quaid, the actor of "The Day After Tomorrow", and takes the inspirational route of golf, with a small overall audience, and its performance can only be regarded as decent.
"Furious War Monkey" and "Omen Prequel" both fell by more than 50% in their second week, ranking sixth and seventh respectively.
Fortunately, the production cost of these two films is $30 million, and it is not a big problem to make a small profit on the streaming platform in the future.
Alex Garland's fifth feature film, "Civil War", hit $25.71 million at the box office in its opening weekend, beating the three-week monster blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" to win the box office championship with very low gold content.
The film is rated R in North America, produced and distributed by A24, which is good at low-cost operations, and the films produced by the company are basically small-scale openings, so the previous films have not been satisfactory at the box office in the first week.
"Civil War" surpassed the $13.6 million opening of "Hereditary Doom" in 2018 and became the first highest-opening film in A24. The film cost $50 million and is the studio's most expensive film to date.
The film tells the story of a journalist played by Kirsten Dunst who crosses the battle lines and manages to survive.
"Civil War" received a CinemaScore "B-" theater score, although it got 83% Rotten Tomatoes freshness, but the popcorn index was only 77%, indicating that it could not achieve ultra-long battery life, and whether it made money or not depends on the global box office.
In addition, "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" has a global box office of $436 million;
"Kung Fu Panda 4" grossed $423 million worldwide;
"Dune 2" grossed $683 million worldwide;
"Ghostbusters: The Frozen City" grossed only $159 million worldwide.
Last week, Nicolas Cage's horror film "Xanadu" made a box office hit, collecting only $480,000 in its opening weekend, missing out on the top 10.
Therefore, the distributor of the film is a home theater model, so it will only be released in 1100 theaters in North America, and Cage is about to get rid of the title of the king of bad movies, but how to crack the title of "box office poison"?
Brother Brown believes that Cage has starred in too many bad movies before, which is somewhat similar to our Bao Bell, so the word-of-mouth has suffered a backlash, and everyone doesn't believe that Cage can still have high-quality films, so let's avoid lightning first, see what the word-of-mouth is after the opening of the painting, and then prepare for watching it.
A Chinese audience on Douban said this: For the first time in my life, I watched it in a movie theater.
The film is okay, the suspense is very strong, the monster shakes its head very distinctively, and it's also cool for the dad to take his two sons to fight monsters, but it's just a night of fierce fighting, the parents of the two children are hanging, and the next day they can go to the end of the world for love, I think it's also a little, it's too suspended.
Sure enough, the trend of Rotten Tomatoes in "Xanadu" is the same as that of "Civil War", the audience popcorn index has been directly overturned, and there is no way to achieve a high box office.
Cage still has a long way to go to reverse the title of "box office poison".
Preview the North American theater situation in the 16th week, and five new films will be opened next week.
There are three films on a small scale: the sports genre film "Hard Mile" starring Sean Austin, the animated film "Linda Wants Chicken" and "Spy Playing House Codename: White".
The other two are blockbuster films.
One is the sixth work of Universal Pictures' "Dark Universe" - "Bloodthirsty Ballet".
The film was created by the "Deadly Videotape" series and the "Scream 6" team, and the word-of-mouth on Rotten Tomatoes has been released in advance to 85%.
The plot of "Bloodthirsty Ballet" is as follows:
A group of robbers broke into the mansion to burglarize, thinking that there was only one little girl who loved ballet in the house, but they didn't expect the girl to be ......
The other is the latest work of the great director Guy Ritchie "Top Secret Battle".
tells the true and bizarre story of a secret combat detachment in 1940.
The quality of Guy Ritchie's movies is okay, it depends on whether the box office can explode.
Well, that's all for the North American box office in Week 15, and we'll see you next week.