American cinemas will have little sales on Christmas

Charso Press: According to Variety, James Cameron’s “Avatar: Waterway” has sold $601 million in the US and $855 million worldwide after two weeks. These sales made Avatar 2 the fifth highest-grossing film of 2022 after just 10 days in theaters. By the end of the year, this film with a budget of 350 million dollars can sell 1 billion dollars. Only two other films, “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Jurassic World Domination” have managed to reach this mark.

But apart from the movie Avatar, the movie “Babylon” directed by Damon Chazelle and starring Margaret Robbie and Brad Pitt, with its release in 3 thousand 343 theaters at the end of the week, earned 3 million 600 thousand dollars and 5 million 300 thousand dollars by Monday. sold This movie, with its terrible sales and +C grade from the audience of the CinemaScore site, showed that this three-hour movie cannot resonate on the big screen.

That’s a problem for the film because the film’s budget is $80 million and tens of millions of dollars have been spent on the film’s promotions, which means the film will be an Oscar underdog unless sales pick up in the coming days.

“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” a sequel to the “Shrek” universe, took second place at the box office with $12 million from 4,999 theaters over the weekend and $20 million through Monday. The sale of tickets for this movie from Wednesday is 26 million and 900 thousand dollars. This film has also sold 32.5 million dollars in other countries and a total of 57 million dollars.

Disney and Marvel’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is approaching the $800 million mark. After 7 weeks, the sequel grossed $427 million domestically and $799.5 million worldwide.

In total, the domestic box office collected $86 million over the weekend, according to Comscore. Christmas Day is projected to bring in just $34.4 million, making it the lowest-grossing holiday (aside from 2020, when most theaters were closed) in two decades.