This past weekend, "Black Panther" was finally squeezed out of the box office by Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again. Although the latter's $28 million opening result can be ranked first, it has slightly regressed from the $37.28 million opening result of the previous film. Echoing this, Rotten Tomatoes' overall rating also slipped from 71% to a failed 45%.
Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Poster
Compared with its opening performance in China, although the reputation is also far inferior to the previous one, it still won about 65 million US dollars. It can only be said that as the volume of the Chinese market is getting closer and closer to North America, the situation of the two powerhouses of the East and the West is becoming more and more obvious, and the "special blockbusters" or Chinese elements in Hollywood movies created for the Chinese market will only increase in the future.
"Son of The Bully" and "Son of Bai Suzhen" gathered in "Pacific Rim 2", which best explains the "Chinese special" nature of this film. On the left is Zhen Jianyou, the son of Shinichi Chiba, and on the right is Huang Kaijie, the son of Zhao Yazhi
Black Panther, in second place, grossed $16.65 million at the weekend. As a result, it surpassed The Avengers at $623 million with a total North American box office of $630 million, becoming the highest-grossing superhero movie and comic book adaptation in North American film history. I believe that before the release of the film, not many people foresee this; and in the future, it is bound to have a long-term impact on the future development trend of Hollywood.
"Beyond Imagination" poster
The previous blockbuster gospel film "Beyond Imagination" continued to rank third last weekend. After the previous beautiful opening results, "Beyond Imagination" added 30% of the film last week, entered 2253 theaters in North America, and finally won the weekend box office of 13.8 million US dollars, which has reached 38 million US dollars in ten days, and its production cost is only 17 million US dollars. With Easter approaching, the film is expected to break through further at the box office.
Nomio and Juliet 2: Sherlock Normouth poster
Paramount's 3D animated film "Gnomeo & Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes," which was released last weekend, came in fourth place with just $10.6 million, a pitiful result compared to its 3,600-plus theaters. The film is the sequel to 2011's "Gnomeo & Juliet," and perhaps because of the long time it has passed, the popularity of the previous game ($25.3 million at the opening weekend, $194 million at the box office, and $36 million) is now gone.
It is worth mentioning that compared with the previous game, the only big name added to the dubbing lineup of this film is Johnny Depp, who endorsed the Garden Dwarf version of Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Normouth". In recent years, Depp has participated in non-"Pirates of the Caribbean" series of film works, box office results are often unsatisfactory, "Dark Shadows", "Lone Ranger", "Transcendental Hacker", "Noble Thief", "Alice in Wonderland 2" can be described as one after another inaccurate, this time the production cost of 59 million US dollars "Normo and Juliet 2", I am afraid it will not escape this fate.
Paramount Animation, which produced and distributed the film, is a Paramount affiliate that was only established in 2011. 2015's debut film "SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" was a great success, but last year's "Monster Truck" lost all its money, and now this third bullet is a worrying prospect. Although animated films of all ages can often stage box office miracles, this bowl of rice is really not for everyone to eat.
Tomb Raider: Battle of origins poster
Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins, which ranked second the week, plummeted last week, dropping fifth place with a $10.4 million drop of 56 percent, and North American audiences seem to have lost interest in it. But like Pacific Rim: Thunder Rises Again, the film's main battlefield is in the overseas market represented by China (which won $10.64 million in the second weekend of release), and whether American audiences welcome such works or how American film critics view the quality of their completion has become increasingly irrelevant.
Overall, in the first three months of 2018, the North American film market was much inferior to 2017. At this time last year, Hollywood has ushered in several word-of-mouth box office win-win works such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Escape from Desperate Town", "Wolverine 3" and so on, but so far this year, only "Black Panther" has flourished, which inevitably makes people sweat for the annual results of 2018.
March 23 - March 25 North American weekend box office charts
1. Pacific Rim: Thunder ComeBack $28 million
2. "Black Panther" $16.65 million
3. Beyond Imagination $13.8 million
4. Normio and Juliet 2: Sherlock Normouth $10.6 million
5. Tomb Raider: Battle of the Origins $10.4 million
6. "The Folds of Time" $8.04 million
7. "Love You, Simon" $7.8 million
8. "The Apostle Paul" $5 million
9. Game Night $4.16 million
10. Midnight Sun 4.11 million