China News Service, San Francisco, December 14th. Last week, the animated sequel "The Croods: A New Age" created by Universal Pictures and DreamWorks reached the North American weekend box office rankings for $3 million. Consecutive championships".
In addition, Warner Bros.'s plan to simultaneously release all films in theaters and the HBO Max streaming platform in 2021 was opposed by many parties.
US box office statistics website boxofficemojo.com announced on the 14th local time that in the third week of release, "Crazy Primitives 2" dubbed by Nicholas Cage, Emma Stone and Ryan Reynolds dropped by 32.2%. , But did not encounter threatening challenges on the weekend box office rankings in North America.
At present, its North American box office revenue is 24.3 million US dollars, and the global box office has reached 76.3 million US dollars.
Focus Pictures released "Half Brothers" in 1,386 theaters in North America, and continued to rank second with a weekend box office of $490,000.
Currently, the film has not been released overseas.
New Line Pictures' Christmas comedy "Elf" (Elf) earned $400,000 in box office in the fifth week of returning to theaters, ranking third in the North American weekend box office rankings.
This year, the film has earned 1.5 million US dollars in North America, and the global box office has reached 1.6 million US dollars.
This is not the only holiday-themed classic movie on the top ten list of box office charts last weekend.
Warner Bros. brought all three films back to the screen: 2004's "The Polar Express" (The Polar Express) ranked sixth with $245,000; 1989's "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" ) Ranked seventh with $239,000; 2017's "Wonder Woman" (Wonder Woman) ranked ninth with $189,000.
Ranked fourth on the list is the horror comedy "Freaky" (Freaky) from Universal Pictures and Brenhouse Studios.
Entering its fifth week of release, the film won $315,000 in box office from 1,235 theaters in North America.
Currently, the North American box office of "Happy Chopping" is US$8.2 million, and the global box office has reached US$14.2 million.
The fifth-ranked film is "The War with Grandpa" released by Studio 101.
Entering its tenth week of release, the film won $268,864 weekend box office from 1,080 theaters in North America.
At present, the total box office of the film in North America has reached 18 million US dollars, and the global box office is 27.3 million US dollars.
Outside of the rankings, the biggest box office news last week was the fight back against Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. previously announced that all the films the company will launch in 2021 will be released simultaneously in theaters and its streaming service platform HBO Max.
The theaters obviously expressed dissatisfaction with this move.
In addition, "Tenet" director Christopher Nolan and "Dune" director Dennis Villeneuve both publicly expressed their opposition to the plan.
The Disney Company also announced last week that a live-action film based on "Pinocchio" and "Peter Pan and Wendy" (Peter Pan and Wendy) will bypass theaters and premiere on the streaming platform Disney+. The animated fantasy film "Raya and the Last Dragon" (Raya and the Last Dragon) will be released in theaters and Disney+ on the same day.
However, Disney did not explicitly state the release plans of "Black Widow" and "Luca".
Currently, the two films are still scheduled to be released in theaters in 2021.
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