China News Agency, Los Angeles, July 10 (Reporter Zhang Shuo) The new Marvel Cinematic Universe's new work "Thor: Love and Thunder" (Thor: Love and Thunder) premiered and became popular, pushing the North American weekend box office to exceed 200 million US dollars.

　　The North American box office statistics website boxofficemojo.com released the latest film market data on July 10. The North American weekend box office (July 8 to 10) of 24 films closed at about $236 million, up 24% from the previous month.

This is the first time since January 2020 that the North American weekend box office has remained above $100 million for seven consecutive weekends, and it is the first time it has topped $200 million in a month.

　　The fantasy adventure action film "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" is undoubtedly the leader of this wave of gains.

The film debuted in North America on July 8 and earned about $143 million at the box office within three days, accounting for more than 60% of the total North American box office in this statistical period.

In addition to overseas markets, the film's global box office has rapidly exceeded 300 million US dollars.

　　The Marvel Cinematic Universe originated in 2008 and is known as "Hollywood's strongest money printing machine", and "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" is the 29th film under its framework.

The first "Thor" in 2011 performed well, followed by "Thor: The Dark World" and "Thor: Ragnarok" at the box office. Especially in 2017, "Thor 3" North American and global box office reached 315 million and 854 million US dollars respectively.

　　"Thor 4: Love and Thunder", released after nearly 5 years, is still directed by "Thor 3" director Taika Waititi. The lineup includes the best actor, the best actress, the best supporting actor, the most 5 Oscar winners including Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The film continued the gold-absorbing model and refreshed the best opening score of the "Thor" series in one fell swoop. The opening weekend box office increased by 16% compared with the previous film.

　　However, "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" has declined significantly in terms of word of mouth.

At present, the major film review websites have only rated it at 57 on MTC and 68% on Rotten Tomatoes. The above scores of "Thor 3" are 74 and 93%.

Some viewers said that the soundtrack and visual effects of "Thor 4: Love and Thunder" are excellent, but the plot is low-level.

　　Under the impact of the new film, the previous list champion "Minions: The Rise of Gru" (Minions: The Rise of Gru), although the number of screening halls increased, but the weekend box office fell 57.4% month-on-month to about 45.55 million US dollars Ranked 2nd in this round.

At present, the North American box office of this cartoon has exceeded 200 million US dollars, and the global box office is close to 400 million US dollars.

　　"Top Gun: Maverick" followed, dropping to No. 3 in the round with about $15.5 million at the weekend box office.

At present, the 7-week-old action drama has grossed US$597 million in North America and US$1.184 billion globally.

The industry predicts that it is just around the corner for the film to break into the top ten of the North American box office rankings in history.

　　In addition, the musical biopic "Elvis" dropped to No. 4 on the list with a weekend box office of about $11 million, and a global box office of about $155 million to date.

The sci-fi adventure action film "Jurassic World: Dominion" dropped to No. 5 with about $8.41 million in the weekend and about $876 million worldwide so far.

　　It is worth noting that "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On", which was released on a small scale on June 24, only received about $340,000 at the weekend box office with double-digit number of screening halls. To the 8th place on the list in this issue, it is the film with the fewest screening halls among the top 10 at the weekend box office in this round.

The comedy, which has a 99% Rotten Tomatoes rating, is set to hit theaters on July 15th.

　　New week for animated 'The Deer King' in limited release on July 13; thriller drama 'Where the Crawdads Sing' based on best-selling mystery novel and animated comedy The film "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank" will be released on the 15th.

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