Weekend after weekend, the closer the New Year gets, the higher the collections, such statistics are shown by the momentum that Alexander Voitinsky’s film “In Command of the Pike” is confidently gaining https://www .kp.ru/daily/27577 /4847203/. November 4 – the first billion rubles at the box office, November 20 – already two billion!
Perhaps the promising Nikita Kologrivoy at https://www.kp.ru/daily/27534/4798980/ will not be able to reach the New Year’s “Cheburashka” stove, but the foundations for the future are still good. No wonder “KP” predicted great success for the boy! According to the UAIS of the State Film Fund https://ekinobilet.fond-kino.ru/films/detail/111030623/, the total box office of the film adaptation of the children’s story on the night of November 20 amounted to 2.067 million rubles.
Until now, only two Russian films differed in this aspect: the already mentioned “Cheburashka” (6.7 billion rubles) and the innovative box office hit “Challenge” (2.1 billion rubles). In terms of pace, Voitinsky’s story is gradually ahead of Channel One’s space movie: Kologrivy brought the first billion to the box office after 10 days of release, while Yulia Peresild – after 13. The seconds billion succumbed to the film about Emelya in the fourth week of release, but “The Challenge” – more than three months later.
In general, the phenomenon is explainable: a bright children’s film for different generations and a powerful and relevant patriotic message (jokes about someone else’s speech, domestic and foreign works of wit, the border and the Cossacks who conquered the territory of their homeland , plus a more beautiful kingdom), and excellent, unused artists, of which the audience did not have time to get tired, and good computer graphics, a radiant backlighting solution for the image – all this comes in very handy before the start . of winter. Why not go with your children to see a fairy tale that you read together from the crib? Now the film has reached the eighth place in the list of the country’s highest-grossing films in history.
By the way, the project continues the popular film cycle of “Brother” producer Sergei Selyanov. The series opened with “The Little Humpbacked Horse” (2021), a live-action adaptation of Pyotr Ershov’s fairy tale starring Anton Shagin, which surpassed the billion-dollar barrier at the box office.
