This weekend after Thanksgiving, there is only one new film released on a large scale in the North American film market, "Violent Night". Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film tells a darkly humorous story about a criminal gang raiding a rich neighborhood on Christmas Eve but encountering a counterattack by "Santa Claus".

A Night of Violence poster

The production cost of "Night of Violence" was only 20 million US dollars. It was directed by Norwegian Tommy Wirkola (Tommy Wirkola), who once filmed "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters". David Harbour, who is familiar to the audience from "Stranger Things". The film was released in 3,682 theaters and got a box office of 13.3 million US dollars. Although this result still cannot shake the top position of "Black Panther 2", it is quite good, and it once again proves the strong appeal of thrillers to young American audiences.

"Night of Violence" has a 70 percent favorable rating from critics and a 90 percent favorable rating from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes

In terms of reviews, "Night of Violence" received 70% favorable ratings from critics and 90% favorable ratings from audiences on "Rotten Tomatoes". I believe that as word-of-mouth continues to ferment and the Christmas holiday approaches, there should be room for the film's box office to rise.

In stark contrast, Disney's animated film "Odd World" and Sony Pictures' war film "Loyalty" started painting the previous weekend. The box office of the two films last weekend fell by 60% and 53% year-on-year respectively. The former is doomed to a huge loss, and the latter's production cost of 90 million US dollars may be difficult to recover from the theater market.

Last week, based on big data calculations, an American market research organization came up with a list of December new films that American audiences are most looking forward to seeing. "Avatar 2: The Way of Water" released on December 15 ranked first, and on December 23 in "Knives Out 2" launched on the Netflix platform ranked second, and the literary film "Babylon", which showed the style of old Hollywood, ranked third. In addition, the cartoon "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish", the Whitney Houston biopic "Dancing with Love" (I Wanna Dance With Somebody), Tom Hanks starring " Works such as "A Man Called Otto" (A Man Called Otto) have also received a lot of expectations.

Among them, "Knives Out 2" was actually screened in theaters the weekend before, but it was discontinued within seven days, and the screening scale was only a few hundred theaters. Last week, the director of the film, Rian Johnson, was interviewed by the media and admitted that he was also trying to persuade Netflix to allow "Knives Out 2" to return to the big screen to meet the audience. "It will land on the Netflix platform on the 23rd. After that, it is reasonable to say that it can also be played simultaneously online and offline in movie theaters. We are also discussing the specific form. In short, I will do my best. Of course, it also depends on the theater. Whether the parties are willing to cooperate or not has to be discussed in the long term.”

As usual, Netflix has not announced the theater box office data of "Knives Out 2", but it is estimated that its seven-day total box office is about 15 million U.S. dollars, and Netflix can get about 6 million U.S. dollars from it. Assuming that the film can return to theaters after December 23, including the blessing of the Christmas and New Year schedule, Netflix will get tens of millions of dollars more in box office revenue. Logically speaking, it should not be a problem. Will it make this streaming media giant tempted and willing to let "Knives Out 2" return to the screen. After all, no matter how rich and powerful Netflix is, in this era of rising everything and constant inflation, no one needs to struggle with money, right?