The North American film market this past weekend was still dominated by the superhero movie "Black Adam" adapted from DC Comics. Although the film's media reputation was not good, young American audiences bought it quite well. Not only did they buy tickets enthusiastically, but they also gave the film a high score. In the middle of last week, star Dwayne Johnson also thanked his 343 million global fans on his personal social media account, saying that the film was made for them, and secretly teased film critics.
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"We made history together, thank you, thank you, thank you," Johnson told his fans in a video. He also introduced that he has been a loyal reader of DC comics since he was a child. Superman and Green Lantern are his favorites, but his favorite image is Black Adam. Since the first time he read it as a child, Johnson has been fascinated by this cartoon image, which also has a dark brown complexion, and hopes that he can become such a superhero in the future. Now that the dream has finally come true, it also makes the half-hundred-year-old action superstar very happy.
Johnson posts video on his personal social media account to thank fans for their support
Also last week, Hollywood director James Cameron and the famous French director Jean-Pierre Genet, who had directed films such as "Black Shop Rhapsody" and "Amelie", successively targeted the superhero comics. Movie. Cameron, who is promoting "Avatar 2: The Way of Water," criticized the films as repetitive, with thin characters, like a group of college students who will never grow up. Geney, who released her new film "Bigbug," in partnership with Netflix in February, satirized that only idiots and American nerds would flock to such films.
However, the old master's criticism is a criticism. From a commercial point of view, the popularity of such films is unstoppable, especially in the current era of the rise of streaming media. In the second weekend after its release, "Black Adam" still received 28 million US dollars at the box office, its total North American box office has reached 111 million US dollars, and its global box office has reached 250 million US dollars. Until the November 11 release of "Black Panther 2", "Black Adam" still has a lot of time to continue to attract money. Coupled with the news that the film will be released on November 11 in mainland China, where no Hollywood blockbusters have been released for a long time, it seems that its global box office is expected to reach 400 million US dollars, and it should not be a problem to recover the full cost.
In terms of new films, only Lionsgate's PG-13 rated horror film "Prey for the Devil" was released on a large scale over the weekend. As a result, it earned $7.02 million at the box office in 2,980 theaters, which is really bad for this Halloween. Golden time of the weekend. This poor score is still related to the level of the film itself. At present, the film has only 17% of the film critics' praise on the film review website "Rotten Tomatoes", and the audience rating is only C.
The director of "The Devil's Light" is Daniel Stamm, a German who has made films such as "13 Scary Games" and "The Last Exorcism". Added some feminist selling points (the protagonist of the exorcism is no longer a priest, but a young nun). The film was originally scheduled to be released in January 2021. After that, it was delayed again and again for various reasons. It is not difficult to imagine that Lionsgate may also have reservations about the quality of the finished film.
