'Uncharted' បញ្ចប់​បណ្តាសា​ភាពយន្ត​ហ្គេម​ជាមួយ​នឹង​ $106M នៅ​ជុំវិញ​ពិភពលោក​ចុង​សប្តាហ៍

របស់ក្រុមហ៊ុនសូនី មិនអាចដឹងបាន overperformed this President’s Day weekend, earning a rousing $44 million over its Fri-Mon frame and a likely $51 million over its Fri-Mon debut. That’s the biggest domestic debut of 2022, easily eclipsing Scream’s $33 million MLK weekend launch. Among video game openings, it’s behind (sans inflation) only Sonic កាំប្រមានេះ ($58 million over the Fri-Sun portion of a $70 million President’s Day launch in 2020), ប៉ូឡូម៉ុនៈអ្នកស៊ើបអង្កេតភីគឆូ (៧០០ លានដុល្លារនៅឆ្នាំ ២០១៩) និង Raider ផ្នូរ ($47 million in 2001). It’s also Sony’s fourth straight “big” IP release (all due respect to អំពើអាក្រក់របស់អ្នកស្រុក: សូមស្វាគមន៍មកកាន់ទីក្រុងរុណុន) to open above $44 million. It sits alongside Venom: សូមឱ្យមាន Carnage (១៧៧,៨ លានដុល្លារ), Ghostbusters: Afterlife (១៤១ លានដុល្លារ) និង Spider-Man: គ្មានផ្លូវនៅផ្ទះទេ ($260 million). For a film that was in development hell for over a decade and had all the hallmarks of a desperate “IP for the sake of IP” offering, what went right?  

Lousy reviews notwithstanding, មិនអាចដឹងបាន was sold not as a faithful adaptation of your favorite video game, but rather as an old-school adventure flick with old-school treasure hunts and action scenes. While it was a “prequel for the sequel” origin story, it featured plenty of Nathan Drake wearing the video game costume doing Drake-type activities (jumping, fighting, shooting, etc.). It paired a hot young star (Tom Holland, fresh off Spider-Man: គ្មានផ្លូវនៅផ្ទះទេ) with a previous generation’s butts-in-seats draw (Mark Wahlberg), plus Antonio Banderas as the baddie for extra value. Tati Gabrielle has been in quite a bit of “shows your kids watch” television (The 100, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, You, etc.), so that didn’t hurt. This doesn’t mean Tom Holland is now a butts-in-seats movie star, as this could just be his ព្រិលពណ៌សនិង Huntsman (which opened with $55 million in the middle of Kristen Stewart’s Twilight tenure), but it won’t hurt his asking price. 

_{“This result is yet another extraordinary testament to the appetite for the theatrical experience that Sony Pictures bet on,” stated Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group President Josh Greenstein. “Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg are brilliant together. Thank you to our sister company, PlayStation, for their incredible partnership, and all the many people who worked so hard to bring this film to life in a big, theatrical way.”}

We must acknowledge that the “video game movie curse” is no longer a thing. ភាពយន្តខឹងបក្សី became the second such film to top $100 million domestic as it raced past $350 million worldwide in summer 2016. Just in 2018, well, we had MGM and Warner Bros.’ halfway decent Raider ផ្នូរ reboot ($274 million on a $90 million budget), WB and New Line’s frankly spectacular (stop booing me, I’m right) ការបំផ្លិចបំផ្លាញ which earned $101 million domestic, $156 million in China and $430 million worldwide on a $120 million budget. WB and Legendary’s អ្នកអង្កេត Pikachu was mostly well-liked and earned $144 million domestic/$433 million worldwide on a $150 million budget. That it didn’t earn more was partially due to being kneecapped by Avengers: Endgame និង Aladdin. Paramount’s Sonic កាំប្រមានេះ was the last pre-Covid blockbuster, earning $146 million/$306 million on a $82 million budget. New Line’s ជីវិតរមែងស្លាប់ Kombat reboot earned $85 million global and top-tier HBO Max viewership. 

Warcraft និង Assassin's Creed stumbled in 2016. ហ្គេម Angry Birds was so mediocre that the genuinely great Angry Birds Movie 2 got Tomb Raider Trapped (named after the superior Cradle of Life which bombed because the first Anglina Jolie-as-Laura Croft movie stank) in summer 2019. Just because China flocked to Paul W.S. Anderson’s អំពើអាក្រក់របស់អ្នកស្រុក: ជំពូកចុងក្រោយ ($159 million for a $312 million cume on a $40 million budget in early 2017) doesn’t mean anyone cared about នាងហិនទ័របិសាច in late 2020. But we’re at a point where a big-deal video game adaptation has at least a 50/50 chance of breaking out, provided A) the IP is of value and B) the movie offers entertainment value and appeal for those with no interest in the source material. I’m perhaps overly optimistic for Lionsgate’s ព្រំប្រទល់, which has a marquee director (Eli Roth) and a stacked cast (Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Édgar Ramírez, etc.).  

Offhand, it’s looking at a domestic finish between $$85-90 million (if it flatlines like Fifty Shades of Grey) and $115-$125 million (if it legs out like Daredevil, Ghost Rider, Percy Jackson or Deadpool). Kingsman: សេវាកម្មសម្ងាត់ ($128 million from a $41 million debut) and ខ្លារខិនខ្មៅ ($700 million/$242 million) were unusually leggy President’s Day launches, and such a run would give មិនអាចដឹងបាន a terrific $145-$160 million finish. A B+ from Cinemascore is frankly useless in terms of judging audience response, but it’s not like the lousy reviews stopped folks from showing up this weekend. Will it be a 13-day champion before it gets stomped flat by Batman? Will it leg out alongside the Caped Crusader since there’s almost nothing else opening (save for ទីក្រុងបាត់) រវាង Batman និង មូបារ៉ាស។ on April 1? Will we get a superior 2 មិនអាចដឹងបាន which gets Tomb Raider Trapped because this one wasn’t all that great?  

មិនអាចដឹងបាន earned another $55 million overseas this weekend, bringing its foreign total to $88 million. It’ll be at $139 million worldwide by tomorrow. And that, with a current 36/64 split which is likely to go up on the overseas side (especially if it scores in China on March 14), is why studios kept trying to make video game movies even prior to 2016. The likes of ត្រូវការសម្រាប់ល្បឿន ($43 million domestic/$203 million worldwide), Assassin's Creed (១២៧ លានដុល្លារ / ៥០ លានដុល្លារ), អំពើអាក្រក់របស់អ្នកស្រុក: ជីវិតបន្ទាប់ពីជីវិត (១២៧ លានដុល្លារ / ៥០ លានដុល្លារ), Warcraft ($47 million/$440 million) and ព្រះអង្គម្ចាស់នៃពែរ្ស។ ($90 million/$330 million) show that the sub-genre skews overseas even more so than most conventional four-quadrant fantasy action franchises. Now few of these films qualified as “made money from theatrical” hits, and the reasonably budgeted អំពើ​អាក្រក់​និវាស​ន​ជន franchise remains the only successful video game-based theatrical franchise but hope springs eternal. And មិនអាចដឹងបាន is certainly good news for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ។ (មេសា 8) ។