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The screen adaptation of the fairy tale of the same name "Domovenok Kuzya" topped the Russian box office last weekend, the film earned 221.6 million rubles. In the back of Kuzya breathe "Yolki 11" - the next installment of the traditional Russian New Year franchise has collected 154.2 million rubles. Last week's leader - "The Adventures of Paddington 3" dropped out of the top five. But this did not prevent the movie about the kindest bear to earn the status of the second highest-grossing foreign release in Russia this year. The tape Duggal Wilson 556.7 million rubles in cumulative collections, a month after the premiere of the movie demonstrates a good attendance - 17 people per session. "Izvestia" - on the results of the weekend at the Russian box office.

"Firs 11" broke into the "New Year's battle"

Pre-holiday days and vacations - the most box-office period for domestic cinemas. For example, this year from January 1 to January 8, the cumulative fees amounted to 5.8 billion rubles. Of this, RUB 5.5 billion was earned from the sale of tickets for Russian films alone. As reported by the Cinema Fund, cinemas in our country have never achieved such large box office receipts over the New Year holidays. And this is without taking into account the proceeds from the December installment of the "New Year's battle". It is for the sake of it that many distributors are saving their potential box office releases. Opened the race this year, the traditional premiere of the next movie franchise "Christmas Trees", once created by Timur Bekmambetov and has been living for many years without his participation.

"Spruce 11" collected for its official opening weekend from December 19 to 22, 154.2 million rubles and landed on the second line of the EAIS rating. Why official? In the week leading up to the release, the movie was shown in the format of preview sessions, which demonstrated the high interest of viewers in the picture. "Christmas Trees 11" also showed one of the best earnings per session for the past weekend - almost 8 thousand rubles. At the sessions of the New Year's picture go to an average of 18 people. But the tape failed to dislodge from the first place another novelty, a fairy-tale comedy "Domovenok Kuzya", the producers of which were the Andreasian brothers. And very soon on the big screens will be released blockbusters "Finist. The first bogatyr" and "The Wizard of Emerald City", and there is a feeling that "Christmas Trees 11" will lose to them. Playing one of the main roles in the new movie franchise star of Turkish TV series Burak Ozcivit will not be easy in the confrontation with the most successful bogatyr Belogorya and the sorceress Bastinda.

- "Christmas Trees 11" even though they lost to "Domovenku Kuz" in the first week of rolling, but still showed a decent result. The box office of the first weekend of the previous part of the movie was much lower. Already the barnstorming is starting to work. Traditionally, "Christmas trees" as a New Year's release will work all holidays and, despite the release in the hire of strong competitors, can collect an impressive box office, - says the president of the network of cinemas "Karo" Olga Zinyakova.

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"Domovenok Kuzya" conquered the audience

Headed the Russian box office in the week of the same name full-length adaptation of the Soviet fairy tale by Tatiana Alexandrova "Domovenok Kuzya". Tape directed by Viktor Lakisov earned 221.6 million rubles and can boast the highest attendance rate - 24 people per session (8.5 thousand rubles of earnings). At the same time, the movie did not have a strong promotional campaign. According to Olga Zinyakova, such a bright success influenced several factors.

- This is a "fairy-tale" component with familiar characters of Russian folklore, and a good time to start, and Sergei Borunov and Garik Kharlamov as voice actors of the main characters. And the age limit is 6+. Together these aspects have formed a successful combo, which allowed the comedy to take the first line in the top of the rental, - explained the expert.

The audience's attention to the comedy fantasy "Baba Yaga saves the New Year" is still high. Last week's leader earned over the weekend Br86.5 million, but dropped to the third line. Much more positions lost the main New Year's Eve foreign release - "The Adventures of Paddington 3". The new movie about the adventures of a bear cub in a trademark red hat earned 30 million rubles and moved from second to sixth place. But that did not prevent the new "Paddington" from surpassing "Substance" and becoming the second highest-grossing foreign release of the year at the Russian box office. The "The Adventures of Paddington" threequel has cumulative box office receipts of 556.7 million rubles, but the bear has one more week of box office ahead of it. Coralie Farage's body horror collected 551.4 million rubles in Russia. In first place is still the movie "The Count of Monte Cristo" based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas with 619.9 million rubles, which does not seem to squeeze even "Paddington".

A surprise was the comedy "Brothers" with Philip Kirkorov and comedian Denis Dorokhov on the fourth line of the rating of the box office. Director Mark Gorobets literally works at the pace of "five years in a year" - This is the third release of the director this year after the war drama "Blindazh" and the musical comedy "Tour with Ivanushki". "Brothers" has about 60 million in weekend box office receipts, but a rather low 3.9 rating on MoviePoix.

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Looking at the statistics of EAIS, there is a feeling that in the next month in cinemas will be nothing to watch, except for films for children and family audiences. However, the president of Karo promises that in the repertoire will find something that will interest moviegoers outside the target audience of fairy tales.

- In addition to family content, this and horror, and thriller "The Illusion of Control", and comedies, such as "Knock on my door Tver". Already this week, the long-awaited "The Last Ronin" - post-apocalyptic fiction with Yuri Kolokolnikov from Max Shishkin - will be released. And, of course, on December 30 and 31 in cinemas in Russia, Belarus, Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the UAE will be a live broadcast of the ballet "The Nutcracker" directly from the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, - added Olga Zinyakova.

The expert does not name any even predicted figures for the collections in the upcoming holidays. At the same time, given the saturation of holiday rental promising releases, "Karo" expects that the New Year collections will exceed last year's figures. "Izvestia will closely follow the "New Year's battle".