Recently, in addition to the global box office explosion of "Joker" in North American film market, almost all of the films released in the North American film market are at a loss. Among them, has a new film "Last Christmas" by "Dragon Mom" Emilia Clarke. In the three weeks since the opening of the painting, the global box office has been released, with only 37.05 million US dollars. It seems that Long Ma can't afford the box office anymore.
"Last Christmas" landed on North American theaters on November 8th, with Roland Emmerich's war film "The Battle of Midway", Ivan McGregor's horror film "Dream of Dreams", John Cena's comedy The film "Fire Daddy" opened on the same day, and the box office performance in North America was very average in the first weekend. The four new films ranked bottom with only $11.6 million. Entering the following week, it dropped by nearly 40%, and again received US$6.7 million. As of press time, the total box office of in North America was only US$2,375 .
"Last Christmas" has been opened in more than 20 countries and regions around the world at the same time, and the overseas box office has collected 1330 US dollars. So far, has been released into the third week of "Last Christmas". The global box office has been released, and only received 37.05 million US dollars. In a state of misfire. According to the follow-up box office curve trend, 's global box office drop point will eventually stop within 50 million U.S. dollars. This box office performance is again a non-receipt of budget costs.
Dragon Mom’s new film "Last Christmas" was produced by Universal Pictures, one of the six major Hollywood publishers, and was responsible for global distribution. Universal Pictures set a mid-to-low budget cost of $25 million to build this film film. has been released for three weeks, and the global box office is still at 37.05 million U.S. dollars. According to the split box office calculation, the film party will get a third of the total box office revenue, which is about 12 million U.S. dollars. It is predicted that the global box office will reach 50 million U.S. dollars. It can only recover US$16 million, which is obviously far from the budget cost of US$25 million. It can be seen that Universal Pictures will not receive any money. If cannot sell good prices around the "Last Christmas" movie, including streaming platforms, it is likely to lose money.
After "Last Christmas" landed on North American theaters, the ratings of major platforms were lifted, and word of mouth has been exposed. Douban score: 6.6 points, IMDB nearly 6000 people rated 6.6 points, cinemascore only received B-level recommendation;
MTC mass media, 39 media comprehensively rated "Last Christmas" 50 points , 11 of them gave praise , 22 gave mixed reviews, and 6 media gave bad reviews, orange;
On the Rotten Tomatoes professional film critic platform, 169 film critics rated 47% of the freshness of rotten tomatoes for "Last Christmas" , Serious failures, of which 80 are fresh and 89 are bad. The popcorn index of viewers is not very high, only 81%.
combined with the above scores, it can only show that "Last Christmas" is a very mediocre movie, and the viewability is not very high.
Universal Pictures gave the film’s director tube to Paul Feige to direct. Before that, Paul Feige had directed various films, including the hit movie "Super Expendables" and "Female Spy" ", "A Little Busy", "Bridesmaids", "Hot Police Flower", etc., especially good at shooting romantic comedy type films, for films such as "Last Christmas" should be his special skill, but unfortunately this time he missed a bit. In addition, Oscar actress Emma Thompson also participated in the screenwriting of the film. In addition to "Dragon Mom" Emilia Clarke, the main creator of is also the Chinese male protagonist Henry Golding of "Golden Romance" And Chinese movie stars Michelle Yeoh and Emma Thompson helped out in this film.
In "Last Christmas", Henry Golding and Dragon Mother played a pair of CPs, telling the story of the encounter between Kate played by Dragon Mother Emilia Clarke and Tom played by Henry Golding during the Christmas festival in London. , In the end, can they get married? This is a very romantic Christmas romance comedy. Kate, played by Long Ma, is a very sloppy girl in her life who can do nothing. She is forced by her life and only finds a Christmas jewelry store.In the job of dressing up a Christmas elf, one day, I ran into a Chinese man named Tom. Since then, her life has changed a lot.
And the owner of the Christmas jewelry shop in the film is played by Michelle Yeoh. Michelle Yeoh’s excellent temperament supports this film, especially her outfits can make people shine, and the movie also offers good things. Acting, Unfortunately, in the end, the global box office was still in a state of misfire. Michelle Yeoh did her best, and Long Ma couldn't afford it.
Speaking of Dragon Mother, a friend who loves drama fans, must be no stranger to her. In the global hot American drama "Game of Thrones", Emilia Clarke plays the first protagonist, "Dragon Mother" Daenerys. Targaryen, Chinese drama fans kindly gave her the nickname "Dragon Mom".
09 graduated from Long Ma at the London Theatre Center. She met "Game of Thrones" in the third official work of her acting career. It can be said that "Game of Thrones" completely created her and made her a world-renowned star. She is also a typical female artist whose debut is the pinnacle. After the popularity, Long Ma began to transform into the big screen. In 2016, she starred in "Before Meeting You", with a budget of only 20 million US dollars, but the global box office exploded 208 million US dollars, making her famous.
However, since then, Long Ma starred in "The Voice in the Wall", "Two Sided Suspicious Clouds", and "Solo Ranger: A Star Wars Story", but "Solo Ranger: A Star Wars Story" is an epic. On the street, the budget cost of US$275 million was only exchanged for US$392 million in the global box office, making Disney completely lose. 's low-cost budget "Last Christmas" box office is once again misfired, which directly shows that Long Ma can no longer afford the box office.
The film "Last Christmas" has a very sweet look and feel. It is warm and romantic, and there are tears of laughter. Fans who like this theme can take a walk. Long Ma alone carries the box office ability, why is it getting worse and worse?
