China News Agency, Los Angeles, February 20 (Reporter Zhang Shuo) February 21 coincides with the US statutory holiday "President's Day".
The latest North American box office statistics show that this year's "Presidents Day" long weekend North American box office will exceed 100 million US dollars.
According to the film market data released by the North American box office statistics website boxofficemojo.com on February 20, the North American weekend box office (18th to 20th) of 30 films reported about 94.29 million US dollars, sweeping away the previous Major League Football Championship "Super Bowl". (Super Bowl) weekend box office slump.
During the entire "Presidents Day" long weekend (18th to 21st), the North American box office will exceed 100 million US dollars.
Among them, the new film "Uncharted" leads the North American box office chart this round, accounting for about half of the total box office of the long weekend.
The Sony Pictures action-adventure film "Uncharted" is adapted from the best-selling game of the same name on the Sony PlayStation 3, which has been long-awaited by the majority of game fans.
Since its premiere on the 18th, the film has grossed about $51 million at the North American box office and a cumulative global box office of $139 million.
Some viewers said that as an "old fan" of this game, they were very moved when the theme music played, and the overall viewing experience was both tense and happy.
The 25-year-old star Tom Holland, who is widely known for his new "Spider-Man" role, starred in "Uncharted", which is also his first major role outside "Spider-Man", but audiences are watching it for now. The acceptance of the new image is not very high.
After all, "Spider-Man" is so deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The superhero movie "Spider-Man: No Way Home," also starring Tom Holland, premiered in December, although the number of theaters dropped during the President's Day weekend this year. , but the box office did not drop but rose, ranking third in this round with about $8.8 million, becoming the "Ten Dynasty veterans" in the North American weekend box office top ten list.
It is worth mentioning that the film currently has a total box office of about 772 million US dollars in North America, surpassing the fantasy action film "Avatar" to become the third-highest-grossing film in North American film history, and the global box office has reached 1.832 billion US dollars.
Another new film released on the same day as "Uncharted", United Arts' comedy "Dog", ranked second at the box office with about $18.05 million.
The film is a common Hollywood road movie starring Channing Tatum and co-directed.
Some viewers said that the film not only tells the story of loyal dogs, but also presents the living conditions of veterans.
In addition, the 20th Century Films crime suspense drama "Death on the Nile", the top-ranked 20th-century film in the previous issue, appeared to be a "flash in the pan", and this time it slipped to No. 4 at the box office with only about $7.19 million.
Action comedy documentary "Jackass Forever", musical romantic comedy "Marry Me", cartoon "Sing2", horror thriller "Scream 5" "(Scream), the action thriller "Blacklight" and the fantasy suspense horror film "The Cursed" (The Cursed), followed by other seats in the top ten North American box office in this issue.
New week, Open Road Pictures horror comedy musical "Studio666" will be released in North America on February 25, Blue Fox Entertainment's romantic comedy drama "Butter" (Butter), Good Deed Entertainment The feature film "Moon Manor" and United Arts' love music drama "Cyrano" will also be screened on the same day.
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