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Starting out, I won the first “Golden Palm Award” “Parasite” for South Korea at the Cannes Film Festival. I recently made a debut in North America and set up a small-scale single-story this year. Income record.

According to Box Office Mojo statistics, “Parasite” has appeared on three small theaters since October 11th, and the first weekend has scored an astonishing figure of $393,000, breaking into the top 15 of the box office list of the week. . Based on this calculation, the parasite’s single-pane income is as high as 128,000 US dollars. Beyond the Chinese theme, don’t tell her ($8.9 million) to create a new high for this year’s average output value; In Asian movies, “Parasite” A new record for this indicator since the 2007 “Color, Caution” ($64,000).

Parasite Golden Palm Edition Poster

After the screening, the screening range of “Parasite” was further expanded to 33 theaters. The weekend harvest increased by 223% to 1.24 million US dollars, and the cumulative figure reached 1.82 million US dollars, which made the Korean film the most in North America. Good results. On the eve of the launch of the drug, “Parasite” gradually expanded to a medium-sized theater of 461 theaters, and has already won more than 8.15 million US dollars at the box office, which is second only to “Dragon Ball Super: Broly” in this year’s Asian film; As the film continues to expand in North America, “Parasite” is expected to last a long time.

In the previous article of WeChat ID: youhaoxifilm, it was mentioned that since the 1980s, large studios such as Warner Pictures have broken through the Paramount Act. Restrictions, Therefore, Hollywood studios have gradually formed a monopoly on “production-release-screening”, so many of the platoon resources are tilting towards the large-scale film. Readers who live in the Salt Lake City area tell the drug lords that there is an independent cinema in the local area, othersCinemas will not be screened for non-English movies – The data shows that the box office share of North American overseas movies has dropped from 10% in the 1960s to 1% today.

It is precisely because of this that the “Parasite” can break many records in the case of small-scale painting, which is rare.

“Parasite” Stills

“Parasite” can achieve such good results, on the one hand because of its reputation: the freshness of “Parasite” on rotten tomatoes is as high as 99%, and the popcorn index that characterizes the audience is maintained at 94. %, echoed with 8.7 points (4.6 million evaluation) of Douban, showing that “Parasite” was unanimously recognized by Chinese and foreign fans.

On the other hand, it depends on the addition of the “Golden Palm” to the heat. Since the first show in Cannes in May, the expectations of the parasite have been fully filled. The film was previously released in France ($11.94 million), Vietnam ($2.87 million) and Russia ($1.42 million). They have also received wide acclaim. So as early as a few months ago, North American film lovers have been vocal about the film, and the heat after the release is naturally expected.

The parasite’s box office results in Asia Pacific (data source Box Office Mojo)

There is a major way for Asian literary films to circle in the European and American markets by award-winning bonuses. Last year, the “Threas Family”, which was led by Yuki Yuki, also won the “Golden Palm Award” and was later nominated for the best foreign language film in Oscar. Since then, “The Thief Family” has not only earned $37.82 million in Japan, but still France, North America, Italy and other countries exceeded one million dollars, and overseas box office accounted for 45%. The other two Asian films that were shortlisted in the main competition unit of Cannes – “How to Home” from Lebanon and “Burning” from South Korea