A fairy tale quickly rolls down: Sarik Andreasyan's film earned 2 billion rubles at the box office

Director Sarik Andreasyan regained his leadership in the domestic box office. His film version of Pushkin's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" dropped to second place in the box office last weekend after three consecutive weeks at the top. Now the film only needed a million to overtake the Frog Princess 2. The best novelty of the weekend was the adventure comedy "Marsupilami. Fluffy Cruise" is about a popular comic book character, an energetic animal with an unusually long tail. However, the film was able to debut only from the ninth line of the rating. Izvestia — about the results of the weekend at the cinema.

"The Tale of Tsar Saltan" earned 2 billion rubles

The battle of fairy tales continues in the domestic film distribution. Last weekend, Sarik Andreasyan's film regained the championship, earning, according to the EAIS, 66 million rubles. The total box office of the Pushkin film adaptation exceeded 2 billion rubles.

Tsarevna the Frog 2 lost to the leader by just one step — it earned 65 million rubles over the weekend, but it was enough to drop to second place. Moreover, the film's fees have dropped several times. In its debut weekend a week earlier, the film earned 204 million. Sarik's film earned almost 192 million rubles at that time.

— The gap in training camps between "The Frog Princess 2" and "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" was minimal on the first weekend. Last week, the tale of the enchanted bride bypassed Pushkin's tale because of the novelty effect, but judging by the results of this weekend, the sundress of Sarik Andreasyan's film is better," Olga Zinyakova, president of the KARO cinema chain, explained in an interview with Izvestia.

This is evidenced by the attendance. The average number of viewers per session for "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" is 14, for "The Frog Princess - 2" – 11. However, not all box office leaders have the highest score here. The film "The Kid" starring Gleb Kalyuzhny as a rapper from Donetsk who volunteers in Mariupol (the actor, by the way, is currently serving in the army) had an average of 20 people at one screening last weekend. In the fee rating, Lenta closes the top 5 with 23.7 million rubles.

The black comedy "The Heir" (60 million rubles) with Margaret Qualley, whom the viewer remembers from the recent "Substance", and "The New Mother-in-Law" (59 million rubles) with Garik Kharlamov and Maria Aronova are located above with a small margin from each other.

In the cinema — gently

According to the results of the last film releases, the therapeutic domestic melodrama "Tenderly to yourself" with Karina Razumovskaya took the sixth place in the box office. The film is based on Olga Primachenko's bestseller of the same name and tells about a successful otolaryngologist-surgeon Nadia, whose life outside of work is far from ideal — her husband has left, and she has to live in her mother-in-law's apartment. A woman has to go through six lessons to find herself.

Despite the fact that the very name "Tenderly to yourself" has long become a recognizable brand, the fees of the tape can hardly be called impressive. At the start, a week earlier, she earned 72 million rubles and took the fifth place in the rating, and now she is sixth with 23 million rubles. However, this is in line with forecasts.

— "Tenderly to Yourself" lived up to expectations and collected a good box office for its genre, — Olga Zinyakova noted. — And the book of the same name, popular with the female audience, worked to attract the target audience of moviegoers.

Below is the short film "Sonata". Before its screening, a selection of unofficial Hollywood trailers is shown as part of the pre—screening service, including a new film based on the novel by Emily Bronte "Wuthering Heights". The main roles of Catherine and Heathcliff are played by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Another acclaimed foreign film that is officially in the Russian box office, unlike the previous one, is the thriller "The Maid" starring Amanda Seyfried and Sidney Sweeney. The premiere in Russia took place two months ago. His total fees slightly exceeded 1.3 billion, but the 1.5 billion mark is unlikely to be overcome. At the weekend, the film brought in only 10.6 million rubles at the box office and was ranked tenth in the box office.

The historical drama "The Beauty" (15.7 million rubles) is also in the top — about the rescue of animals in besieged Leningrad and the almanac "Tulips" (10.1 million rubles), which premiered before March 8. At that time, cinema attendance increased significantly (to 2.4 million people), but this weekend it fell by half (to 1.1 million people).

— Last weekend fell on International Women's Day, respectively, and the training camps were festive. As expected, this weekend is sagging, and the warm spring weather motivates viewers to spend more time outdoors rather than in movie theaters. This week, there will be releases that can attract a wide audience — "Kuzya the Housekeeper – 2", "Killer in the Head" and a new part of "Chainsaw Man", predicted Olga Zinyakova.

In the meantime, the best novelty of the weekend was the French-Belgian adventure film "Marsupilami. Fluffy Cruise" is about a cult comic book hero. The plot centers on zoo employee David, who has to transport valuable cargo on a liner. To his surprise, the box turns out to contain not treasures, but a restless red animal. The film was released in Russia on March 12 and earned only about 15 million rubles over the weekend, with which it was able to secure only the ninth place in the box office.