A popularity test for Tom Holland.
Having revived an anemic American and international box office since the emergence of the Covid thanks to the titanic success of
Spider-Man No Way Home
, was the Briton able to carry in his own name a blockbuster having nothing to do with the Super hero ?
The trade press was skeptical about Uncharted
's opening weekend
.
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Early estimates called for a three-day weekend total of $30 million.
A bit tight to hope to make a budget of 120 million dollars profitable.
But early operating numbers for Thursday night and Friday beat analysts' expectations.
With 15.4 million dollars,
Uncharted
can instead hope to raise 45 to 50 million dollars over this weekend and holiday Monday.
Ruben Fleischer's film (
Venom
) benefits from the curiosity of young adults, especially male moviegoers.
The demographic that the pandemic has furthest from movie theaters.
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tops the US box office,
Uncharted
internationally
Unconvincing non-Spider-Man choices
The other releases of the week should not overshadow
Uncharted too much.
A somewhat melodious road movie,
Dog
follows a seriously injured and unfit for service soldier (Channing Tatum) who agrees to accompany a Malinois shepherd, also traumatized, to the funeral of his trainer.
Horror film, The Cursed tells the advent of a supernatural threat on a small French village and should raise around two million dollars.
This success of
Uncharted
can partly reassure Tom Holland whose choices except Spider-Man did not necessarily convince.
Seeking more adult roles, the 25-year-old comedian played a soldier suffering from addiction and post-traumatic stress in the Apple TV+ movie
Cherry
and an orphan trying to escape domestic abuse and destitution in Netflix's tacky noir film
The Devil All the Time
.
Always acclaimed by fans,
Spider-Man: No Way Home
has supplanted the film Avatar, becoming the third most profitable film in the American cinema.