Last weekend, "Jedi Men: Chase" continued to occupy the top spot in the North American box office. The film was released for ten days, and the total North American box office has climbed to 120 million U.S. dollars. box office. The war film "1917", which won several blockbuster awards including the Directors’ Guild Award and the Photographer’s Guild Award on the weekend, also recorded $15.8 million on the weekend and climbed to second place on the weekend box office rankings. The cumulative box office of the film in North America has reached 104 million US dollars, which is quite outstanding.
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In terms of new film, STX Films' "The Gentlemen" (The Gentlemen) got 11.03 million US dollars at the box office (2165 theaters), far inferior to director Guy Ritchie's previous one His work "Aladdin" (at a box office of 91.5 million US dollars and showing in 4476 theaters) is not even as good as his poorly praised "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" The opening result of 15.37 million US dollars (3702 theaters).
"Gentlemen" has a good reputation on "Rotten Tomatoes"
However, "Gentlemen" currently has 72% praise on the film and television rating website "Rotten Tomatoes", and the reputation is actually not low. A film critic wrote: "The Gentlemen may not be able to add many fans to the screenwriter and director Guy Ritchie, but for those fans who are just like him, the Gentlemen is still worth the ticket. Price."
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"Gentlemen" by Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hannum, Henry Golding, Michelle Starring Dokry and others, the story revolves around the big drug lord played by McConaughey. The road of the play is back to the British style of "Two Big Smokers" and "Smuggling" that Guy Ritch relied on in his early years. The underworld film. The film was originally copyrighted by Miramax at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival market. Last year, STX bought its North American distribution rights from Miramax for $7 million. However, STX with a Chinese-funded background can only be regarded as a newcomer to the American film market, and seems a little cautious in the publicity and distribution of "Gentlemen." It is said that the investment in the publicity of the film is only 25 million U.S. dollars, and the scale of the more than 2,000 theaters can only be said to be moderately low. In the next step, given the relatively good reputation of "Gentlemen", STX is expected to increase the number of theaters that the film will be shown.
The new film "The Turning" from Universal Pictures also began to be released last weekend. Compared with "Gentlemen", there were hundreds of more theaters, but it only won $7.3 million at the weekend box office. The film is adapted from the novelette "The Screw is Tightening" published in 1898 by the famous American writer Henry James. The story itself is no stranger to American audiences. "The Screws Are Tightening" was put on the screen by British director Jack Clayton as early as 1961, and it was remade into the classic horror film "The Innocents" (The Innocents). To a certain extent, the horror film "Cry on the Island" starring Nicole Kidman is also inspired by the novel "The Screw is Tightening". Unfortunately, judging from the comments, the latest remake of this time not only failed to shoot any new ideas, but also all the essence of the original work was changed.
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"Tighten" is directed by Italian-born Canadian female director Floria Sigismondi (Floria Sigismondi). The 55-year-old started from making MVs and commercials. She made her 2010 film debut "The Runaway Band" is well received. In fact, there is quite a set of stylized elements such as movie screens and character modeling. But after becoming famous, she did not get many filming opportunities. In recent years, she has only been active in the television field, and has participated in directing several episodes of the American drama "The Handmaid's Tale" and "American Gods".
's "Tighten" this time was originally a project in the hands of the great director Steven Spielberg. It is said that after 40 years from the famous 1975 "Jaws", he wanted to try again to shoot a horror film. But in the end Spielberg decided to retreat behind the scenes, only serving as the executive producer of the film, and handing over the directorship to Floria Sergismondi.After
"Tighten" was released, it immediately drew unanimous complaints from audiences across the United States. The film currently has only 12% praise on "Rotten Tomatoes." More importantly, the audience score given by the authoritative market research agency CinemaScore shows that American audiences who have watched the film only gave "Tighten". The lowest score of F grade is the same as the horror film "The Grudge" released in North America in the first week of 2020.
In the past few years, horror films have become popular in the American film market. A small number of small film companies represented by Bloom House Studios have used low-cost horror films to grab the surplus left by Marvel and DC superhero blockbusters. In the box office space, there are also some quite innovative masterpieces, but a large number of follow-up works have also emerged. This year, only one month has passed, and there have been two horror films "The New Grudge" and "Tighten" that have suffered negative comments from the audience. Perhaps this means that this low-cost horror film trend will have new The change.
In addition, "Detective Chinatown 3" was originally planned to be released in the United States last weekend, but it was cancelled due to the withdrawal of files in China. The North American distributor of the film is Warner Pictures, and they originally planned to arrange the film's release in 150 theaters across the United States. With such a scale of premiere in North America, it is the most domestically produced film in history. Last year's Spring Festival box office champion "Wandering Earth" landed on North American theaters in early February 2019. At the time it was shown in only 129 theaters, the film won a total of 5.87 million US dollars in North American box office.
January 24-January 26 North American weekend box office chart
1. "Jedi Men: Chase" $34 million
2. "
" $15.8 million
3. "Dolit's Fantasy Adventure" $12.5 million
4. "Gentlemen" $11.03 million
5. "
Brave Game 2
" $7.9 million
6. "Tighten" $7.3 million
7. "
Star Wars 9: The Rise of Skywalker
" $51.7 billion
8. "Little Women" US$4.7 million
9. "The Mercy of Justice" US$4.05 million
10. "
Blade Out
" US$3.65 million
