The North American movie market continued to be hot last weekend, with the market being about 30% higher than the same period in 2019 for "Men in Black: Worldwide." "Lightyear" is Pixar Animation's first movie to be released in theaters after "Half of Magic" in 2020. The previous

Stills of " Light Years "

Time Network News The North American movie market continued to be hot last weekend, and the market was about 30% higher than that of "Men in Black: Global Manhunt" in the same period in 2019. " Jurassic World 3" retained the title with US$58.6 million, down 60% from the previous month. Pixar Animation's "Lightyear" ranked second with $51 million. Tom Cruise "Top Gun 2" ranked third with US$44 million, and North America topped the list with a total of US$460 million.

"Lightyear" is Pixar Animation's first movie to be released in theaters after "Half of Magic" in 2020. The previous " Spiritual Journey ", "Summer Days of Friendship" and " Metamorphosis " are all Straight to streaming.

, a spin-off of " Toy Story ", opened with a box office of US$51 million, lower than the industry's expectations of US$70-80 million. Compared with the US$120 million opening of " Toy Story 4" in 2019 Painting, the gap is quite big.

In the entire "toy" series, the performance of "The Story of Lightyear" is only higher than the $29.14 million of "Toy Story" (1995) when CG animation was just emerging.

Excluding " Toy Story 2" and "A Bug's Life" that have not been released on a large scale, the film's opening results are only higher than those of "Toy Story" in 1995 (US$29.14 million) and 2020 at the beginning of the epidemic. "Half of Magic" ($39.11 million) and 2015's "The Good Dinosaur" ($39.15 million) set the fourth worst opening performance in Pixar history.

"Legend of Light" has the same score as "Jurassic World 3"

The key problem is that "Legend of Light" has a poor reputation among Pixar works, with a CinemaScore rating of A- and " Cars 2" "1/2 Magic" tied for the bottom. The Rotten Tomatoes index is 77%, and the IMDb score is only 5.3.

The film was "banned" in markets such as the Middle East and Malaysia due to its homosexual plot. The global box office in the first weekend was only 85.6 million US dollars, and its performance was also lower than expected.

Prior to Pixar, because three consecutive works were released directly to streaming media, internal employees were quite dissatisfied with the arrangements at Disney headquarters. Nowadays, the work with an investment of 200 million US dollars has failed in the beginning, and the reputation is also poor. It is estimated that in the future, "the arm cannot twist the thigh".

"Jurassic World 3" has indeed won the championship again, but the 60% drop is higher than the previous two films. The current total in North America is 249 million US dollars and the global total is 622 million US dollars (the mainland box office is 620 million yuan)

"Top Gun" 2》Stills

The most impressive performance in North America during the summer is "Top Gun 2", which still managed to earn US$44 million in its fourth week of release, down only 15% from the previous month. The cumulative US$460 million in North America is not only this year's annual record, but also the second-highest box office movie in Paramount's North American film history, second only to "Titanic".

"Top Gun 2" has a global box office of US$885 million in the absence of the Russian and Chinese mainland markets, surpassing "Mission: Impossible 6" by US$791 million, becoming the world's highest-grossing work of Tom Cruise.

Marvel's "Doctor Strange 2" grossed US$4.2 million at the box office in its seventh week of release, with US$405 million per episode in North America and a global total of US$942 million, temporarily ranking first in the world.

"Happy Burger" ranked fifth with US$1.1 million in its fourth week of release, accumulating US$29.76 million in North America and US$31.83 million globally.

New film this week

"Elvis" (music/biography) Warner released

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Plot: The protagonist is Elvis Presley and his manager, telling how the young singer rose from poverty The family became famous in one fell swoop and changed the history of music.

" Black Phone " (Drama/Horror) Released by Universal

Director: Scott Derrickson

Plot: A kidnapped boy "is locked in a basement stained with the blood of six other murdered children" In the story, there is an antique telephone in the basement that has been disconnected for a long time, but at night, it will ring the deceased's phone number.