LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hero komik aksi "Men in Black
3" kini mengambil alih box office hujung minggu daripada superhero buku komik "The Avengers."
Menurut anggaran studio, filem terbaru"Men in
Black" lakonan Will Smith dan Tommy Lee Jones ini memperoleh debut ansuran
dalam negeri bernilai $70 million selama empat hari Memorial day pada hujung minggu,
yang membuktikan kelainan di teater Hollywood secara keseluruhan.
"Men in Black 3" mengambil ahli kedudukan no. 1
daripada "The Avengers," yang telah menduduki tangga teratas selama
tiga minggu berturut-turut tapi
tergelincir ke tangga kedua dengan kutipan $46.9 million dalam negeri.
"Men in Black 3" menambah nilai $133.2 million untuk
pasaran luar negara yang menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan bernilai $203.2 million.
"Kami sudah mengambil alih dunia minggu ini,"
kata Rory Bruer, ketua pengedaran Sony. "Ianya sangat menakjubkan melihat
Will and temannya kembali di arena ini. Saya sudah tentu berfikir bahawa kebanyakan mereka
yang menonton filem ini memberikan komen bahawa ini filem terbaik yang mereka
pernah lihat dalam industri.
"The Avengers" meningkatkan jumlah kutipan
domestik total kepada $523.6 million,
menjadikan ia filem no. 4 dalam keseluruhan carta perolehan domestik dan menjadi
filem ke 4 yang menjangkau setengah billion dolar. "The Avengers" dijangka
akan mengatasi filem no.3 "The Dark
Knight" yang mengutip $533.3 million,
menjadikan hanya dua filem iaitu "Avatar" ,$760.5 million dan
"Titanic" yang mengutip $658.5 million didepannya.
While it was a good start for "Men in Black 3" and another strong
hold for "The Avengers," Memorial Day weekend was the slowest at
theaters in more than a decade. Box-office tracker Hollywood.com estimates that
overall domestic receipts for the four days will finish at $190 million, the
lowest since Memorial Day weekend in 2001, when revenues totaled $185.3
million.
So far, Hollywood's summer season has been a one- or two-hit wonder, with
only "The Avengers" doing blockbuster business and now "Men in
Black 3" joining it with a solid opening.
Other than "The Avengers" and "Men in Black 3," summer
is off to a slow start.
"Men in Black 3" reunites Smith's Agent J and Jones' K for their
first big-screen adventure since 2002. The movie co-stars Josh Brolin as the
younger Agent K, who is targeted for death by a time-traveling alien that Agent
J chases back to the late 1960s.
Still, many older films such as "Gone with the Wind," ''Star
Wars" and "The Sound of Music" sold more tickets than "The
Avengers" and other modern blockbusters. Rising admission prices mean
today's movies make more money while selling fewer tickets, especially those
that earn much of their cash from pricier 3-D shows, such as "The
Avengers."
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