Raya and the Last Dragon: animation has slow box office with US$8.6 million
The film Raya and the Last Dragon, by Disney Animation Studios, was released in some theaters in New York (USA) and opened with a box office of US$8.6 million on the first weekend. The number did not reach the feat of Tom & Jerry, which raised $14.1 million last weekend, sheds light on the exhibition sector, which has suffered from the pandemic.
Raya and the Last Dragon was made available on Disney+ to subscribers for R$69.90 in Brazil, continuing the method used in the launch of Mulan, in September 2020.
Although it was a much smaller result than the big-budget feature film could possibly achieve under usual circumstances, Raya profited enough to top the domestic box office. Worldwide, the animation made US$ 26 million, for which China and Russia were the main responsible.
Animated feature films tend to cost more than $100 million to produce. Such data provides a sense of how disfigured movie distribution to theaters has become, as a major Disney release didn’t reach even a tenth of that on its opening weekend.
Part of this result is also related to the fact that Disney refuses to increase the share of box office values for exhibitors, causing Cinemark, for example, to refuse to reproduce the film.
On the other hand, on the second weekend, Tom & Jerry, by Warner Bros., $6.6 million at the domestic box office, made available by HBO Max. training.
Thirdly, the movie world in chaos, starring Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, grossed $3.9 million. The feature film was scheduled to premiere in March 2019, but was postponed several times due to, in addition to the pandemic, some re-recordings.
The top 5 is completed with Boogie, a drama about a Queens basketball phenomenon, and The Croods 2: A New Era, animation by DreamWorks.
With vaccines, some US states are slowly reopening their movie theaters. However, the still dismal numbers show that there is a long way to go.
