Last weekend, "Jedi X-Men: The Rush" continued to dominate the North American box office, and in the ten days of its release, the total North American box office has climbed to $120 million, which is about to surpass the total North American box office of the second film released in 2003. The war film "1917", which won a number of blockbuster awards such as the Directors Guild Award and the Photographers Guild Award, also earned $15.8 million at the weekend, climbing to the second place in the weekend box office list. The film's cumulative North American box office has now reached $104 million, which is quite outstanding.
Stills from Jedi X-Men: The Rush
In terms of new films, STX Pictures' "The Gentlemen" grossed $11.03 million (2,165 theaters), far less than director Guy Ritchie's previous work, "Aladdin" (which opened at a box office of $91.5 million and released 4,476 theaters), and even his poorly acclaimed "King Arthur: Legend of the Beasts." Sword) of $15.37 million (3702 theaters).
"Gentlemen" was not badly praised on Rotten Tomatoes
However, "Gentlemen" currently has a 72% praise rating on the film and television rating website "Rotten Tomatoes", and the reputation is actually not low. Some film critics wrote: "'Gentlemen' may not be able to add many fans to the writer and director Guy Richie, but for those fans who are already good at him, 'Gentlemen' can still be worth the ticket price." ”
Stills from "Gentlemen"
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hannham, Henry Goldin, Michelle Dockrley, and others, "Gentlemen" revolves around McConaughey's big drug lord, and returns to the British gangsters that Guy Richie relied on in his early years, "Two Smoking Guns" and "Kidnapping and Robbery". The film was originally acquired by Miramax on the 2018 Cannes Film Festival marketplace. Last year, STX bought the North American distribution rights from Miramax for $7 million. However, STX, with a Chinese background, is still only a newcomer to the Us film market, and it seems to be a little cautious in the promotion and distribution of "Gentlemen". The film's publicity investment is said to be only 25 million US dollars, and the scale of release in more than 2,000 theaters can only be said to be lower than moderate. Next, given that "Gentlemen" is currently quite good, STX is expected to increase the number of theaters where the film will be released.
A new film from Universal Pictures, "The Turning," also went on sale last weekend, releasing hundreds more theaters than "Gentlemen," only to gross $7.3 million at the weekend box office. The film is adapted from the famous American writer Henry James's 1898 novella "The Screws Are Tightening", and the story itself is not unfamiliar to American audiences. "Screws Tightened" was brought to the screen by British director Jack Clayton as early as 1961, and remade into the classic horror film "The Innocents", and the 2001 horror film "Island Horror" starring Nicole Kidman was also inspired to some extent by the novel "Screws Are Tightening". Unfortunately, judging from the comments, the latest remake version this time not only failed to shoot any novelty, but also changed all the essence points of the original work.
Stills from "Tighten Up"
"Tighten Up" is directed by Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-born Canadian female director, who started at the age of 55 by making MVs and commercials, and her 2010 film debut "The Fugitive Band" was well received. However, after becoming famous, she did not get much filming opportunities, and in recent years she has only been active in the field of television, participating in the directing of several episodes of american dramas "The Handmaid's Tale" and "American Gods".
This time, "Tighten Up" was originally a project in the hands of the big director Steven Spielberg, who is said to want to try to make a horror film again forty years after his 1975 masterpiece "Jaws". But in the end, Spielberg decided to take a back seat and only serve as the executive producer of the film, handing over the directorship to Floria Segismondi.
After the release of "Tighten Up", it immediately attracted unanimous spit from american audiences. The film currently has only 12% positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, and more importantly, the audience score given by cinemaScore, an authoritative market research agency, shows that American audiences who have seen the film have only given "Tighten" the lowest F-rating - the same as the horror film "New Grudge" released in North America in the first week of 2020.
In recent years, horror films have become popular in the American film market, and a number of small film companies represented by Bloom House Film Company have taken advantage of low-cost horror films to seize the remaining box office space left by Marvel and DC superhero blockbusters, including some novel masterpieces, but also a large number of popular follow-up works. This year, less than a month has passed, and there have been two horror films such as "New Grudge" and "Tighten Up", which have suffered negative points from the audience, which may mean that this low-cost horror film trend will have new changes.
In addition, "Detective Chinatown 3" was originally scheduled to be fully released in the United States last weekend, but it was also cancelled at the same time because of the withdrawal of files in China. The film's North American distributor was Warner Pictures, which had planned to schedule the film's release in 150 theaters across the Country. With such a premiere scale in North America, it is already the largest chinese domestic film in history. Last year's Spring Festival box office champion "The Wandering Earth" landed in North American theaters in early February 2019, and only 129 theaters were released at the most, and finally the film received a total North American box office of $5.87 million.
January 24 -January 26 North American weekend box office charts
1. Jedi X-Men: The Rush 34 million
2. "1917" 15.8 million US dollars
3. Dorit's Fantasy Adventures $12.5 million
4. "Gentlemen" $11.03 million
5. Brave Game 2 $7.9 million
6. "Tighten" $7.3 million
8. Little Women $4.7 million
9. "Righteous Mercy" $4.05 million
10. "Sharp Blade Out of the Sheath" $3.65 million