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Turn time around and turn the past into aspiration, which does not hold back.

That seems to be the only obsession not so much of Christopher Nolan as of the whole world.

And first of all, the cinemas.

In the last two weekends, the fight of the two most voracious monsters (we are not talking about politics) has turned the rooms into the scene of the normality of other times.

Without reaching the pre-pandemic figures,

Godzilla vs Kong

has risen not only as the best premiere of the year (something quite obvious) but as a return to the times of

Tenet

.

In its first weekend, on March 26 before the Easter holidays,

Adam Wingard's film grossed 1.43 million euros, slightly less than Nolan's film,

but above Father there is only one 2. Segura's movie, which would end up as the most viewed of the year, got 1.35 million a month earlier.

"All that this means is what we knew. As soon as there are movies, the audience responds," says Borja de Benito as spokesman for the Federation of Cinemas of Spain (FECE).

With nearly a quarter of theaters still closed, the data for theaters counts as resurrection.

Not in vain, on the weekend of Resurrection Sunday itself and without any other premiere for the vast majority, the figures were repeated again.

If the previous theaters grossed a total of

2.74 million

, the last total box office amounted to

2.79 million

with

Tom and Jerry

and

Nomadland

, each at one end, helping what De Benito does not hesitate to call achievement.

To be sure, the numbers are still a long way from the old days of normal normalcy.

But less and less, each time the past is closer.

According to a comparison by Comscore, the company that audits the box office, cinemas are 59% below the average for all weekends between 2015 and 2019. But, and this other data is even more relevant,

only a 12% of the worst weekend in that same time span.

"Take into account that only 78% of theaters are open and that of the films considered blockbuster only one has appeared", reflects De Benito, who takes it as good that theaters return to numbers just after the first wave when many believed that the worst was over.

In the wide world, the figures are similar.

How similar are the desire to return.

In their first three days in China, the creatures of the inner Earth

raised $ 70 million in revenue.

In the United States, where it premiered on the last day of March, the

$ 48.5 million

in the first five days has far exceeded all forecasts.

Back to

Tenet

.


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