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Having held the top slot in the CIS box office chart for two weeks, Andrei Kravchuk’s historical biopic Admiral (20th Century Fox CIS) fell into second place behind a new blockbuster released by the same distributor – John Moore’s American actioner Max Payne, based on the video game of the same name. Nevertheless, the difference between the box-office of these films turned out to be quite negligible: the film starring Mark Wahlberg as the merciless avenger Max Payne grossed $3 515 336 in four days from 504 screens, while the film with Konstantin Khabensky as Admiral Kolchak put $3,431,472 on its account in its third weekend from 937 screens (down 57% from its second weekend). Admiral’s 18-day total was $29,147,686 and it became the second-highest grossing film in CIS distribution this year after Irony of Fate: The Sequel ($49.91 million), which 20th Century Fox CIS also distributed. In addition, Admiral became the third-highest grossing domestic film in the history of post-Soviet film distribution. The films ahead of it were Irony of Fate: The Sequel and Day Watch (Gemini), which had grossed $31.97 million. Admiral was also fourth in the list of highest grossing films ever in CIS distribution (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End [BVSPR] retains the third spot on the list, with a gross of $30.85 million). Max Payne’s per-screen average was $6,975, while Admiral’s was $3,662. The leader in terms of per-screen average was Fly Me to the Moon 3D (Cascade), which made roughly $8,049 per copy. Open Season 2 (BVSPR) dropped from second place to third in its second weekend, showing on 360 screens with a gross of $1,637,664 (a 42% drop), for a total of $5,234,861 in 11 days. Another animated film, The Adventures of Alyonushka and Yeryoma [Priklyucheniya Alyonushki i Yeryomy] (Paradise) stayed in fourth place. Having had its release widened from 206 to 459 screens, the film put $1,041,583 in its piggybank in its second weekend (a 43% rise!), for an 11-day total of $2,599,976. Max Payne and The Adventures of Alyonushka and Yeryoma joined the “millionaire’s club,” the list of films that more than $1million, which is now up to 124 titles. It is noteworthy that there were only 109 such films for the entire 2007 box office year. There were six more new films besides Max Payne. Rounding out the top five is Oleg Pogodin’s $5.7 million actioner Man of the East [Nepobedimy] (Central Partnership) with Vladimir Yepifantsev and Sergei Astakhov in the lead roles. The film amassed assets of $763,265 (with a per-screen average of $1 523) from 501 copies. In eighth place was Disney’s Tinker Bell (BVSPR), which was released straight to video in the U.S. Its 112 screens yielded $177,062. Starting in 13th place was Valeria Gai Germanika’s $1.1 million drama Everybody Dies But Me (Profi Cinema) starring Polina Filonenko and Agniya Kuznetsova (47 screens, $66,667). There was a cluster of American films in 23rd to 25th place – Neil LaBrute’s thriller Lakeview Terrace (BVSPR) starring Samuel L. Jackson, David Auburn’s Girl in the Park (Top Film) with Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth and Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s drama Scream of the Ants (Cinema Without Frontiers). All of these films were issued on three screens each and grossed $4,823, $4,657 and $4,415 respectively. Total CIS box office for the last weekend in October (October 23-26) was $12,178,462, which was 18.5% less than the figure for the previous week. |
