Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” did not start well. The film’s first weekend box office was $10.5 million, which was the top spot on the list by a narrow margin.
“West Side Story” set the director’s weakest North American (large-scale) box office performance since “Lincoln” in 2012.
The film is one of the most reviewed movies of the year: “West Side Story” has a freshness of 93% of Rotten Tomatoes, rated A by CinemaScore audiences.
But “West Side Story” still hasn’t attracted enough audiences, and it is even inferior to another musical “In the Heights” released in June this year (simultaneously on-line streaming media, still made a draw of 11.5 million US dollars) .
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Next week, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” will be released in theaters, which is undoubtedly even worse for the film.
The second place Disney “Encanto” is $9.4 million followed closely behind.
Three weeks after its release, “Encanto” had a total box office of US$71.3 million in North America and a global box office of US$151.8 million.
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Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” ranked third with $7.1 million. The film’s North American box office totaled $112 million and the global box office totaled $164.7 million.
“The House of Gucci” ranked fourth with $4.1 million, with a cumulative total of $41 million at the North American box office.
The film’s global box office totaled US$93 million, exceeding the production cost of US$75 million.
Disney’s “Eternals” ranked fifth at $3.1 million.
In the six weeks since its release, “Eternals” earned a cumulative total of US$161.2 million at the North American box office and US$395.3 million at the global box office.
North American Weekend Box Office Ranking
New movie this week
Minamata (December 15)
Director: Andrew Levitas
Starring: Johnny Depp / Minami / Bill Nighy / Hiroyuki Sanada / Tadanobu Asano
“Minamata” is adapted from a book written by Eugene Smith and his wife. The film was adapted into a screenplay by David K. Kessler. Depp himself is also the producer of the film.
In the 1970s, Japan broke out the strange disease “Minamata disease” caused by mercury pollution. Eugene, played by Depp, was commissioned to come to Japan to record this strange disease.
In order to draw the world’s attention to events including bloody battles, World War II and Minamata Disease, he put his life aside and took the sharpest batch of photographs in the history of photography.
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“Spider-Man: No Way Home” (December 17)
Director: Jon Watts
Starring: Tom Holland/ Zendaya / Benedict Cumberbatch
In order to solve the identity exposure crisis, Spider-Man (Tom Holland) hopes to rewrite the past with the help of Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to manipulate time and space.
But the opening of the space-time channel has awakened an unprecedented crisis.
The classic villains “Doctor Octopus” and “Electro” in the Spider-Man movie series are confirmed to reappear, and the multiverse opens up infinite possibilities.
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“Nightmare Alley” (December 17)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Bradley Cooper / Cate Blanchett / Rooney Mara / Toni Collette / Willem Dafoe
The script of the film was co-created by Toro and Kim Morgan, and it will be based on the 1947 film of the same name.
“Nightmare Alley” will tell the story of a greedy liar and a female psychiatrist conspiring to defraud patients with money.
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“The Tender Bar” (December 17)
Director: George Clooney
Starring: Ben Affleck / Lily Rabe / Christopher Lloyd / Tye Sheridan / Max Casella
“The Tender Bar” is adapted from the best-selling autobiography of the same name by J.R. Moehringer.
He grew up on Long Island, New York, and his DJ father disappeared when he was young. Since then, the boy has been looking for a father image in his life.
And the customers in his uncle Charlie’s bar showed him love, took him to the beach, to the ball game…
Finally they brought him to join their circle.
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