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Berezina is critical but not public. Freshly received by the press, particularly French, Ridley Scott's Napoleon is nevertheless off to a good start in the French cinemas. The biopic topped admissions on Wednesday, the day of its release, with 114,000 tickets sold (to which are added the 8,000 from previews). The film retained this first place on the podium on Thursday as well (the number of entries is not yet known). It's much more than Ridley Scott's latest feature films. Gucci and Le Dernier Duel fascinated 22,000 and 34,000 curious people respectively on their first day of operation.
According to Comscore specialists cited by Variety, Napoléon could hope to pass the million spectator mark at the end of its first week of operation. And double, even triple, this figure with the help of the Christmas holidays. Not quite enough to enter the top 5 biggest hits of the year, however. The animated film Mario Bros reigns with 7.36 million admissions followed by Barbie (5.84 million), Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (4.62 million), Oppenheimer (4.45 million) and the comedy Alibi.com 2 (4.3 million).
The British director's fresco, produced by Apple for $200 million, is also establishing itself across the Atlantic with scores much higher than expected on the eve of the long five-day Thanksgiving weekend. In the United States, criticism has been more tender. But Napoleon has obtained an R certification, in other words the epic of the emperor, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and his romance with Joséphine de Beauharnais (the flamboyant Vanessa Kirby), are prohibited to unaccompanied minors.
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By adding up the entries from Wednesday and Thursday, Napoleon has already raked in more than 10 million dollars in revenue and can hope to total more than 30 million by Sunday evening. Before its theatrical release, Hollywood experts thought that the feature film would be in the range between $22 and $25 million in revenue.
This enthusiasm suggests a bronze medal at the American box office. First place is a neck and neck between the new installment of the Hunger Games franchise The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird and the new Disney animated film Wish - Asha and the Lucky Star. The tale, a tribute to the know-how of the century-old studio, got off to a sluggish start and only collected $8.5 million in revenue this Thursday and should end its run on Sunday with $37 million. A bit tight for a work that cost 200 million. With attendance dropping by only a third in the second week, The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird could even surpass it.
To make up for it, Wish, which is released in France next Wednesday, will have to rely on solid word of mouth throughout the month of December. This poor performance is bad news for Disney, which is already facing the disappointing results of The Marvels superheroines.
