“Father there is no more than one 3” gets the best premiere of a Spanish film since 2018

Santiago Segura did it again. The director, screenwriter, producer and actor brought the García family back to theaters on July 14 and audiences raised them once again to the top spot at the box office. ‘Father there is only one 3’ overthrows ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ and becomes number 1 of the weekendbringing together more than half a million viewers, according to Sony Pictures.

The family comedy was also able to improve the previews of its two predecessors. He grossed 78% more than “Padre no hay más que uno” at his premiere in 2019 and 44% more than “Padre no hay más que uno 2” in 2020. It cost him nothing to win the title of the strongest Spanish first of the year, beating ‘Alcarràs’. In fact, it would have exceeded the total that Carla Simón’s film has amassed in its eleven weeks at the box office, without detracting from the more than € 2 million that an independent feature has managed to add at a time when adult audiences are rather reluctant to return. in the rooms. In addition to the best Spanish premiere of the year, it is the best debut of a Spanish film in a time of pandemic.

And we can go even further back, because ‘Father there is no more than one 3’ had the best premiere of a Spanish film since 2016, when Juan Antonio Bayona’s ‘A monster comes to see me’ was released and it did so with a spectacular 3.6 million euros. The estimate for Santiago Segura’s film for the weekend is € 2.19 million, which would rise to € 3.1 million if we also included Thursday, according to El Diario.es. Bayonne, yes, reached that figure from Friday to Sunday. If we stick only to the weekend of “Padre no hay más que uno 3”, it would be the best Spanish cinema premiere since “Superlópez” in 2018.

Will it get a better total than its predecessors?

The first objectives of ‘Father there is no more than a 3’ will be to exceed the total receipts of the two previous installments. ‘Father there is only one’ closed its run with 13.68 million euros, and “Father, there is no more than a 2” went on to raise 11 million euros in the post-confinement summer. The film has an entire summer ahead in which cinemas have no capacity limits, so overcoming the challenge is more than possible.