, the original movie "Joker" based on DC Comics, is still the top box office leader in North America.
As of the end of the second weekend, the global box office of "Joker" has exceeded 500 million US dollars, and the North American theater line received another 8.34 million US dollars on Monday, New York time, and the global box office totaled 548 million US dollars.
The animation "The Adams Family" released by American United Arts came in second with 4.78 million US dollars on Monday; Paramount's "Gemini Killer" ranked third with a single-day box office of 2.51 million US dollars. This film is directed by Li An, The high-frame-rate blockbuster starring Will Smith is about to be released in domestic theaters. The investment of 1.38 US dollars in North American theaters has suffered serious losses, so I hope that the mainland theaters will stop the loss.
Judging from the performance of "Joker" in theaters in recent weeks, if the third weekend's revenue exceeds 300 million US dollars, then the global box office will exceed 1 billion US dollars. The problem is that foreign media generally believe that "Joker" exceeds "Venom" global box office of 855 million US dollars should be OK, but the global box office is difficult to exceed 1 billion US dollars. The reason for
is very simple and realistic, because "Joker" is an R-rated film.
According to statistics from SN Entertainment, there are 43 movies with a box office of more than $1 billion worldwide. In 2019, 6 movies have reached this standard. Among them, Disney has 5, namely "Reunion 4" and "The Lion King" ", "Captain Marvel", "Aladdin" and "Toy Story 4."
You can see that these movies include many types, including animated movies, musicals and superhero movies.
Another movie that broke $1 billion in 2019 is "Spider-Man: Far From Home". This movie is also produced by Disney's Marvel, but the copyright of Spider-Man belongs to Sony, so the box office statistics are in Sony's Columbia Pictures.
And the big data reality is that all the films that exceed the $1 billion box office are not R-rated films, not because they can be shown in more theaters, but because they allow teenagers to watch movies, which is an important part of the box office.
Secondly, it is a pity that R-rated films cannot be released in China. Both "Venom" and "Aquaman" have won very good box offices in China, not to mention "Avenger 4" in the domestic box office of 4.24 billion yuan, if "Joker" The domestic release will not only impact several domestically produced films in the National Day file, but also help "Joker" to increase its global box office.
Here I want to mention "Batman: The Dark Knight". Its global box office is $1.005 billion, which happens to be ranked 43rd. It is not an R-rated film, but because the subject matter is too dark, it has not been released in China. In summary, the reason why foreign media worry that "Joker" will not exceed 1 billion is due to the nature of R-rated films. Not only cannot it be released in China, but it also rejects all teenagers from watching movies. Both are important parts of the box office.
