In the last weekend of 2015, five large-scale films joined the Christmas box office battlefield, but these films are only candlelight compared with the momentum of "Star Wars 7", and these new films can not slow down the pace of "Star Wars 7" to break more records.
I. Weekend North American Box Office Ranking and Roundup Analysis:
Star Wars 7
Disney's sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens continued to dominate, winning the North American weekend championship the following weekend with a record-breaking $153.5 million; ten days after its release, the film's cumulative score reached $544 million, ranking fifth in the list of highest-grossing films in North American film history. The film doubles Avatar's previous Christmas weekend record ($75.62 million).
Paramount's family comedy "Daddy's Back" topped the new film, earning $38.8 million in three days of painting, exceeding expectations and finishing second at the weekend. Fox's comedy film "Joey's Struggle," released by Fox and starring Jennifer Lawrence, opened with $17.5 million and finished third on the weekend.
The globally released restrictive comedy "Sisters" closed for another $13.88 million the following weekend, almost the same as the opening weekend, and the trend was better, ranking fourth in the weekend. Fox's family sequel animation "Rat Noble 4" earned $12.7 million the weekend, down only 11% from the opening weekend, and also dipped in Christmas holiday benefits, ranking fifth on the weekend.
Sony's sports-themed drama film Concussion, released on Christmas Day, grossed $11 million in 2,841 theaters on the opening weekend, ranking sixth on the weekend. The $35 million film reveals the truth behind the suicides of several football stars due to the after-effects of brain injuries caused by violent collisions. The media ratings of the film are also average, with only 60% of the 101 media outlets on Rotten Tomatoes giving positive reviews.
Warner's action thriller "Extreme Thieves," which began opening in 2,910 theaters on Friday, grossed $10.22 million over three days over the weekend, ranking eighth on the weekend. This premiere performance was poor relative to its cost of more than $100 million. The film has been released in China at the beginning of the month, and achieved a final box office of 240 million yuan, performing well. At present, it is slightly difficult to see this film to earn its high production costs. The film's media ratings were extremely poor, with the Rotten Tomatoes website receiving only 4% of the rating and an average score of only 3.5.
Ghost director Quentin Tarantino's new work "Eight Wicked Men" began to release a limited number of film copies in 100 theaters, earning $4.54 million in three days on weekends and $45,000 in a single museum, which is an eye-catching performance for such a large on-demand scale. The film was well received by 76% of the media on Rotten Tomatoes, and the rating was not as good as the director's previous work, "Django Rescued", which had a freshness of 88%. The film will be released nationwide this weekend.
Leonardo DiCaprio's latest blockbuster film, The Reaper, began screening in four theaters on Friday and grossed $471,000 over three days over the weekend. The film's single-library performance is as high as $118,000, second only to the $130,000 earned at the time of the screening of "Steve Jobs", the second-highest single-museum performance this year.
Guan Hu directed and starred Feng Xiaogang and other high-profile domestic drama films "Old Cannon" was simultaneously released in North America last weekend, and the film earned 287,000 US dollars in 30 theaters and nearly 10,000 US dollars in a single museum, which performed well.
Top 10 weekend box office in North America 2015.12.25—2015.12.27 (unit: $10,000)
Weekend Market Summary: The powerful force of Star Wars 7 created the strongest Christmas slot in history, with the top 12 films on the weekend list earning a total of $286 million, second only to the record-breaking previous weekend ($306 million), which was the second-highest weekend record in history; the market soared 47% more than the same period last year ($187 million) when the fantasy movie "The Hobbit 3" won the weekly crown in the same period last year ($187 million).
Second, last week's new film details:
"Daddy is back" - a family comedy into a Christmas file of the little dark horse
"Daddy's Back"
The entire Christmas market is shrouded in the super force of "Star Wars 7", and even if no new films are rushed to release, they can only become green leaves that set off flowers. Of the five new films released on Christmas, the best performance was Paramount's family comedy "Daddy Is Back", which earned nearly $40 million in the first weekend; and the film had no heat before its release, which greatly exceeded industry expectations.
The film is co-directed by Sean Anders and John Morris, directors of Bad Boss 2 and Daddy's Good Son, and co-starring Mark Wahlberg, Will Farrell and Linda Cardrini. The film tells the story of "father" and "stepfather" "competing for favors" in front of their children. Will Farrell plays a mild-mannered radio manager who is determined to be the best "stepfather" in the world. Mark Wahlberg plays his father, a bohemian, cool prodigal son whose presence threatens Farrell's position in the family. In order to win the favor of the children, the two fathers began to find ways to please the children, and many jokes were made in the meantime.
"Daddy's Back" was released early in North American theaters on Thursday night, and the midnight show including the advance show grossed $1.2 million, which is a good result considering that most theaters are closed on Christmas Eve. The film was released in 3,271 theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, earning $15.7 million on that day (including Thursday's early box office), second only to "The Force Awakens" in a single day.
The film closed for another $13.18 million on Saturday, down 16 percent from Friday's opening day, a modest drop. The film is expected to charge around $10 million on its first day, bringing its three-day opening weekend to $38.8 million, an 8 percent higher start than the $35.54 million start of "Second-Rate Detectives" starring Mark Wahlberg and Will Farrell in 2010. The film is expected to eventually hit $150 million at the box office, boosted by the holiday effect, which will be second only to Mission Impossible 5 ($195 million) and SpongeBob SquarePants 3D ($163 million) among Paramount's films released this year.
The film also received a "B+" in the Cinema Score, with a popcorn index of 67% and a mediocre audience. Media film reviews are also mostly negative reviews, rotten tomatoes website included 68 media only 28% of the film gave praise, the average score of 4.9. MetaCritic, an authoritative media review website, included an average score of 42 points for 29 media outlets, far lower than the 64 points of "Second-rate Detective".
Entertainment Weekly: The director had many opportunities for two "dads" to compete directly with each other, but eventually fell into a cliché and became a game of psychological fighting. （67/100）
The Boston Globe: The film is a slightly unexpected predictable film, the beginning of the film is full of and kind of dirty funny, and finally we have to sigh that the film is back to this inferior beginning. （60/100）
The Chicago Sun: Farrell's character goes from mediocre to desperate to insane, which is really not very interesting; and Wahlberg's character has no sense of crisis or mystery. （50/100）
The New York Post: To be honest, Farrell is hilarious even if he's bored skiing near the wires, but Wahlberg's cowboy antics are less enthusiastic. （50/100）
"Joey's Struggle" - the new work of the big cousin is mediocre
Joey's Struggle
One of the many new Christmas films is the latest comedy "Joey's Struggle" starring "Big Cousin" Jennifer Lawrence. The film is a collaboration between Jennifer Lawrence and director David Lawrence. O. Russell's third collaboration after "The Happy Line Behind the Clouds" and "The American Hoax", their first two collaborations have achieved good box office results, bringing two Golden Globe trophies to "Big Cousin", and making her an Oscar at the age of 23. Although this third cooperation is a natural thing, the achievements do not seem to be as high as imagined.
"Joey's Struggle" is positioned as a "human comedy with a human touch", and the other two male actors in the film, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, have also been nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor for "The Happy Line Behind the Clouds". Based on a true story, Lawrence plays Joe Mangano, an ordinary single mother who started out with the invention of the "magic mop", which alone paid millions of dollars. Later, she also improved household items such as hangers and irons, and gradually became a successful entrepreneur and built her own business empire.
"Joey's Struggle" grossed $6.85 million in 2,896 theaters in North America on Friday Christmas, ranking third in a single day after "The Force Awakens" and "Daddy's Back." The film's opening day performance is roughly the same as the $6.52 million first-day performance of "American Hoax".
The film is down 13.6 percent on Saturday from Friday and earns another $5.92 million, while "American Hoax" is up 9 percent on the same day; the film is expected to fall 20 percent on Sunday and close another $4.74 million, bringing its opening weekend to $17.5 million, which ranked third over the weekend. The film's opening weekend performance was 8% lower than the $19.1 million opening of "American Deception", and considering that the film's reputation was far less than that of "American Deception", its final box office goal of 80 million to 100 million US dollars was reasonable, and the film's production cost was about 60 million US dollars.
The film also got a "B+" in the Cinema Score, the film popcorn index is 58%, and the audience's reputation is more differentiated. The media film review evaluation is at the passing level, and 57% of the 128 media outlets included on rotten Tomatoes gave positive reviews to the film, with an average score of 6.2. Meta Critic, an authoritative media review website, included an average score of 55 points for 43 media outlets, far below the 90 points of "American Hoax".
The Chicago Sun: The film is not on the same level as "The Happy Thread Behind the Dark Clouds" and "Beauty Deception", but some of its sets can still make an impression, and Lawrence has dedicated the best performance since "Winter's Bones", this film is worth watching. （75/100）
The New York Times: There are both bad and commendable aspects of the film, and this is a film that belongs to Jennifer Lawrence. She is such a star, able to turn everyone into a supporting role, not to complain, but to recognize her charm. （70/100）
Rolling Stone: The 25-year-old superstar has proven himself to be able to play a variety of roles, from comedy to tragedy, without losing his rhythm. （63/100）
ScreenCrush: "Joey's Struggle" doesn't feel the energy and precision of the director's recent works, and the heroine in the film can't invent a magic broom that can sweep away this garbage. （50/100）
Third, the list of old films detailed: "Star Wars 7" continues to break records The old films fell low
The Space Opera "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," released by Disney and produced by Lucasfilm, continued to gain momentum, earning another $40.11 million on Monday after breaking the all-time record of $248 million in its first week, boosting Spider-Man 2's all-time high monday box office ($27.66 million) by 45 percent; and slashing another $37.36 million on Tuesday, setting a new single-day record for "The Amazing Spider-Man" on Tuesday ($35.02 million). Closed at $38.02 million on Wednesday, setting a new Non-Open Wednesday record. The film broke through $300 million, 400 million and 500 million at the fastest pace in history, 3 days, 2 days and 7 days faster than the previous record.
Star Wars 7 collected another $49.34 million in North America on Christmas Day on Friday, doubling the $24.6 million Christmas Day box office record set by Sherlock Holmes when it premiered in 2009. The film continued to be screened in 4134 theaters the following weekend, and collected another $153.5 million in three days over the weekend, easily breaking the highest weekend box office record and directly raising the original record of $106.6 million for "Jurassic World" the following weekend. The film's next weekend earnings were even slightly better than the start weekend of The Hunger Games. The film fell just 38 percent the following weekend from the opening weekend, the lowest of all films in the $150 million opening break, and only 20 percent after midnight.
Ten days after its release, the cumulative North American box office of "Star Wars 7" climbed to $544 million, surpassing the final box office of "The Dark Knight" of $533 million, ranking fifth in film history; and this week is the New Year's holiday, and the film is expected to remain low again, not excluding the possibility that the film will surpass "Avatar" for $760 million this weekend and top the film history. The film's total global box office has also reached 1.09 billion US dollars, and the global breaking of 1 billion US dollars is one day faster than the record of the fastest in Jurassic World, and the latter also includes 175 million US dollars contributed by China in the same period. It is expected that the final global results of "Star Wars 7" will easily exceed $2 billion after landing in the domestic market on January 9.
The globally distributed restricted comedy "Sisters" remained in 2,962 theaters the following weekend, and received another $13.88 million the following weekend, which was boosted by the holiday effect, and the film did not decline the following weekend, and the results of the following weekend were basically the same as those of the first weekend. With a cumulative record of $37.15 million two weeks after its release, the film will continue to enjoy holiday box office benefits this week, and is expected to exceed twice its $30 million cost line after the week.
Fox's family animation film "Rat Noble 4" was also slightly increased to 3705 theaters the following weekend, and it received another $12.7 million on three days of the weekend, down only 11% from the opening weekend, which is a good trend. The film's cumulative grosses reached $39.4 million two weeks after its release, and under the "subsidy" of the New Year's holiday, the film's final box office is still expected to reach its $90 million cost line.
The Big Short
Paramount's "Rush to Austria" "Big Short" expanded to 1,585 theaters on Wednesday, earning $2.31 million and $1.72 million on Wednesday and Thursday, and $10.52 million over three days over the weekend, ranking seventh over the weekend. The film counts the previous two weeks of on-demand revenue, and the cumulative box office in North America reached $16.01 million, and it is expected to eventually exceed $50 million. The film cost $28 million.
Lionsgate's film adaptation of the teenage novel, Hunger Games 3: Mockingbirds (Part 2), was cut to 1,813 theaters last weekend and charged another $5.3 million over three days of the weekend, down 10 percent from the previous weekend. The sci-fi action sequel starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutchesson and Liam Hemsworth has grossed $264.6 million in North America, $40 million behind Mockingbird (Part 1) in the same period, and the film's Cumulative North American box office is no longer expected to exceed $300 million. The film grossed $617 million worldwide.
Warner's sports-themed drama "Quidditch" was cut to 1,518 theaters last weekend and collected another $4.6 million over three days of the weekend, down just 8 percent from the previous weekend and tenth on the weekend. The film is the seventh film in the famous boxing series "Rocky", which has grossed $96.31 million in North America, and will become Warner's fourth billion-dollar film of the year this week.