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In the case of the opening of the new market in Vietnam, "Star Wars Episode 9: The Rise of Skywalker" barely retained a 50% decline and achieved three consecutive championships, although it will eventually become the seventh Disney film to break 1 billion in 2019, but the desire to break 1.1 billion in the end was almost shattered. At the end of the third week, only 8 markets continued to win the championship, and Europe stumbled more than $300 million, performing much less than Star Wars: Rogue One, but IMAX won $82 million to surpass Captain Marvel at the second IMAX box office in 19 years.
On the contrary, Sony's action film "Brave Game 2: Fight again" continues to exceed the industry's expectations, the box office has approached 610 million US dollars, and finally over 700 million is no suspense, although in the end there is a slight regression of more than 20% compared to the previous game, but the overall revenue is not cheap. This makes people can't help but look forward to the good with the jungle series of Dawn Johnson starring, planned to be released in this summer's summer program "Jungle Wonder", but also a high probability of continuing to have a bright play.
"Frozen 2" exceeded the previous game's $1.281 billion, "beat yourself" so that the animation of the world's first film history continues to stay in the hands of the Frozen series, in the case of poor exchange rates can still brave the peak is very rare. The newly opened Brazilian, Argentine and Bolivia have broken Disney animation records, and Brazil is the 7th highest opening in history. Belgium surpassed Minions to become the champion in the history of animation films, bringing the number of markets that have achieved this achievement to 22. After a record premiere on the Scandira Via Peninsula, the following week fell by only 30%, considering the addition of the next long winter vacation, the ice and snow storm is expected to play better in the "Nordic hometown".
Italy's number one superstar Ceco Zarone's first self-directed comedy "Tolo Tolo" opened in Italy with incredible box office results, according to the distributor revealed that it earned 31.82 million euros in Italy in 5 days, which has surpassed the final accumulation of "Joker" in Italy, and will surpass "Reunion 4" and "The Lion King" this week, and finally break into the top three in Italian film history without difficulty. Zarone starred in the Italian box office top three local film "I'm going to court? "Sunshine Fierce" and "What a Beautiful Day", in Italy is the most appealing top movie star, this time the first electrocution director Although the script is not as high as the previous ones, but the commercial performance is even worse.
The Russian blockbuster "Slave" was stuck in the 11th place for the second consecutive week, but the next Thursday in Russia, the CIS and the Baltic countries grossed a total of Rs 880 million, surpassing the record of 650 million in the history of the crown "Munich" (excluding the first week after the early screening), and the cumulative box office of more than 1.4 billion rubles is expected to cross the 2 billion mark this week. The Korean film "Baekdusan" continues to stay in the weekend TOP25, and has now exceeded 7.5 million profit and loss points to achieve a return on the cost.
The only new film on the list last weekend was sony horror film "New Grudge", which began the year with a big "surprise" - it was angry in the Cinemascore rating, which is the worst level of CS audience ratings, and only 21 films in history have this rating. However, it is interesting that although the filming is very bad and the media and social software continue to be bad reviews, the results are still higher than the pre-screening estimate of 9 million by the distributor, and it may even be possible to achieve a return on the cost in the end. Because the production cost of this film is only 10 million US dollars, and the publicity is less than 50 million, it seems that the business model of low-cost R-rated horror films that can still be profitable is still running smoothly.
With the arrival of the awards season, Universal's "1917", which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture, will also be released on a large scale this week, and Chinese mainland, this film is also expected to be introduced in February and March with the assistance of Ali Pictures, so stay tuned.
January 8 box office prediction: 55 million