So this is the new year, and the weekend’s box office numbers look no different. Well, they look a little different, in the sense that there were some names that were not there the last time we signed in, but everything still feels exactly the same as the last few months. For those in need of a revamp, this’s how it’s been working since theaters in the US started again: every week one new movie appears and makes okay money not yet close, which would make a big movie pre-pandemic, while every other movie waaayyy falls. If no new movie appears, the previous week’s top movie continues while making significantly less money. In fact, it is an extremely unbearable situation where studios are reluctant to release too many great movies, people are reluctant to risk their lives and the lives of others by going to see movies that are not a big issue, and the theater industry people need. keep watching movies to keep your head above water. Each side gets only what it wants by depriving another side of what it wants (i.e. capitalism).
It brings us to Wonder Woman 1984, which is technically the first film released under Warner Bros. Christoper Nolan Challenging plan on simultaneously releases all his new movies in 2021 on HBO Max and theaters (to keep everyone theoretically happy, if not in practice). It was Wonder Woman 1984The second week on the charts after its Christmas release has earned a relatively impressive $ 28.5 million so far. Without knowing how many people stream it on HBO Max, it turns out it’s Warner Bros. ‘although this is the only example in the books’. scheme apparently works. The film is available to stream without endangering anyone’s life, and yet it is still okay money. And it becomes a sequel!
Elsewhere on the maps we have The Croods: A New Age, which earned $ 2.1 million (for a total of $ 34 million), and News from the world, who joined Wonder Woman last week on the list and earned a total of $ 5.4 million. Then we have Monster Hunter, which has the unique burden of being a video game movie that is only in theaters during a pandemic, and therefore the movie gods should be praised for earning anything ($ 1.2 this week, $ 5.4 million in total) . Rounding out the top five is Fatal, which added only $ 700,000 to its $ 3 million total.
For a more detailed breakdown of last weekend’s box office numbers, go over to Kassa Mojo.