He is here, he is here, the superhero God. Thanks to the premiere of “Thor: Love and Thunder” and the good maintenance of “Minions: The Origin of Gru”, the Spanish box office continues to improve its global takings week after week and between on 8 and 10 July, the 20 most viewed films in our cinemas have once again exceeded 7 million euros, An amount we haven’t seen since the premiere of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” in early May. According to data from Comscore, this weekend more than one million viewers arrived in theaters and 7,062,047 euros were inserted, of which 79% belongs to just these two films. For this reason, although the numbers are good, this disproportion is terrible for theaters that show another type of cinema, independent or not, but not family-oriented, and we see the consequences, for example, in the closure of mythical theaters such as the Conde Duque Santa Engracia and Alberto Aguileras.
In the end, the fourth installment of “Thor” was able to beat Gru and his yellow friends and debuted at the top of the Spanish box office with 3.46 million euros and 495,000 admissions, a figure that, although it is very good compared to the rest of the character’s movies, It’s well below the 5.65 million earned by the “Doctor Strange” sequel and can’t even match the “Minions” debut last week. “Love and Thunder” is therefore the fifth best premiere of the year with an average box office gross of € 8,609. It is available on 1,047 screens across the country.
In its second week in theaters and falling to second place, ‘Minions: The Origin of Gru’ fell 43%, raising € 2.1 million across 391 screens. His total audience for the weekend is 321,000 and his accumulated total is very close to 9 million (that’s 8.89). Third place in the standings goes to “Jurassic World: Dominion”, which, like “Minions”, only moves a gap to make room for the God of Thunder. The end of the Jurassic saga has been in theaters for 5 weeks and its fall is again 50% compared to the previous period. Colin Trevorrow’s film is still available in 333 cinemas and 583 screens where it grossed an average of € 737. The dinosaurs attracted more than 62,000 people to the places and posted € 429,883. Its accumulated total collection already exceeds 15 million euros.
In fourth place and with a 39% drop, Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis’ adds 273,420 euros for a total of 2.2 million. While we can’t call it a runaway success, it is having good maintenance these 3 weeks after its premiere. Closing the top 5 and maintaining the same position as last weekend, “Top Gun: Maverick” has the least pronounced drop on the list, just 33% and adds another 222 thousand euros in 315 cinemas and screens for a total of 8.32 million euros and an average of 707 euros per room.
‘Black Phone’ loses positions in sixth place with a decrease of 47% and a collection of 206 thousand euros. Sure, a little push is enough to reach € 2 million in total and hopefully it will do so next weekend. it is followed by ‘Lightyear’, with the biggest drop in performance in the rankings. The Disney and Pixar film has collected 57% less than last week, precisely 125 thousand euros nailed. Its accumulated total is already over 4 million euros, but the figures are not those expected for such a project. Unfortunately, the only Spanish film we will talk about today is ‘Full of Grace’, which, three weeks after its premiere and available in 302 screens, failed to reach € 100,000 in box office and fell another 48%. compared to the weekly pass. It maintains a per-screen average of € 314.
the other first
Concluding the Top10 we finally find other releases of the week in addition to ‘Thor’. ‘Detective Conan: The Halloween Bride’ debuted in ninth place with low takings of € 26,276 in 69 screens and an average of € 381 per screen thanks to 3,727 people who went to see it. ‘Benediction’, which Festival Films brought to 48 theaters where it raised just over 22 thousand euros, also slipped slightly.
And this week another superhero arrives in theaters, the one who does not stop Save the Spanish box office: Santiago Segura. The director returns to the bill with ‘Father there is only one 3’, third chapter of his family saga that he also directs alone and writes together with Marta González de Vega. The former was the highest-grossing Spanish film of 2019 and the latter repeated its success a year later, and even in the midst of a pandemic, so let’s hope this one will at least have a similar reception. Also, ‘Pig’ with Nicolas Cage, the animated film ‘Hasta siempre, Don Glees!’ and “The Invisible Agent” will have a brief stint in commercial theaters before finally landing on Netflix.
Source: E Cartelera
