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What is saving the box office are the premium sessions. That’s why Madrid has just inaugurated its first 70 mm analog projector

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Two David Pereira, father and son, two months have passed fine-tuning every last detail of the installation of an analog 70 mm projector in the Mk2 Cine Paz on Fuencarral Street in Madrid. The device weighs hundreds of kilos and the baptism was on April 10, when ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ was released, the full version and with an interlude of Tarantino’s film. Madrid, which had not had a room equipped for this format for decades, thus becomes the fourth Spanish city to offer it. A family inheritance. The Pereira company is sixty years old and is now in its third generation. Young David’s grandfather was the one who installed the Cinerama system in the Proyecciones cinemas in the late 1950s, right in front of the Paz: it is such a specialized trade that it hardly has any replacement. The programming director of the Mk2 Cine Paz, Nacho Martínez-Useros, has confirmed that the projector is permanent and that it will be used in combination with the digital one that is still installed in that room. 70mm map. Until now, the only three Spanish theaters with 70 mm projection were the Barcelona Phenomenadistinguished in 2025 with the Carlo Lizzani award for best European theater, and the Palafox and Aragonia cinemas in Zaragoza. As already We tell about the premiere of ‘The Brutalist‘, the anomaly of Zaragoza was twofold: a medium-sized city with two 70 mm theaters while Madrid still had none. The programming planned at the Paz (Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ and the re-releases of ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) will try to soften that gap. The paradox of timing. The investment comes at a very delicate moment for the Spanish exhibition. According to provisional Comscore data for 2025theaters recorded 65 million spectators and 453 million euros in revenue, 8% less than in 2024. The first semester closed with slight growth, but the second sank 16%, dragged down by an October that was 28% below the previous year and a November that was 31% worse. If we compare with 2019the box office accumulates a drop of more than 38%. The premium format sweeps. The contrast with the global market is brutal. How we counted When talking about the clash between ‘Dune 3’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’, IMAX closed 2025 with 1.28 billion dollars in global box office, its best historical figure, 40% more than 2024 and 13% above the 2019 record. In 2024, premium formats already meant 15.6% of the North American box officecompared to 10.3% in 2019. 7,830 premium screens have been counted worldwide in 2023. Plan B of studies. Although analog 70 mm is left out of this industrial race to release in IMAX and other premium formats, for obvious reasons of cost and scarcity of available copies, it does play with a similar philosophy: that of turning a visit to the cinema into an event. IMAX’s Omar Berakdar summed up the paradigm shift well when he said that audiences leaving the couch want something they can’t have at home. In Spain, where 87% of the films released in 2025 did not exceed 100,000 euros in revenue and only one Spanish title exceeded one million viewers, the operating margin is no longer in volume. Rooms like Phenomena They billed 1.12 million euros in 2024 with 114,534 viewers: A single screen is capable of competing with multiplexes. It is much more profitable. Go to the movies as a special plan. A projector like the Mk2 Cine Paz does not pay for itself with daily sessions at a standard price, but rather by turning each screening into an event, sometimes with an intermission included and an operator loading the second reel by hand. There is a model that recovers “well projected” cinema (fewer tickets are sold but they are more expensive) and that is in line with the “eventization” of culture that we have already lived with music. Will this, finally, be the rescue maneuver that will give the definitive oxygen balloon to the rooms? In Xataka | Spotify killed the record and the industry pivoted to concerts. Netflix killed cinema and the industry was left with a “space crisis”

We knew almost nothing about the “black box” of life, the initial moment of fertilization: that is over

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In biology, human development, from the fertilization of an egg to the formation of the complete baby, has a large area called ‘black box’because we don’t know what happens there. We have a lot of data about what happens in the first days after fertilization and also during the last months thanks to ultrasounds. Worse, there is an area between the second and fourth weeks of development that is terra incognita. The ethics. It is without a doubt the great wall of developmental biology right now, since to see what happens to an embryo in these weeks we would have to have it in a culture dish for more than 14 days. But this is something that ethics does not allow, since after those days the embryo must be inside a uterus or destroyed. The change. Now science is working to find exactly how to see the embryo in this time window, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona achieved it. Specifically, it has achieved cultivate macaque embryoids which are embryo models derived from stem cells until day 25. In this way, processes that until now were hidden have emerged. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona has managed to cultivate macaque embryoids (embryo models derived from stem cells) until day 25, revealing processes that until now remained hidden. And this has already given us data about how our body is formed. Gastrulation. Lewis Wolpert, a famous biologistused to say that “the most important moment in your life is not birth, nor marriage, nor death, but gastrulation.” And he was right. To understand this importance, you must know that during gastrulation the embryo stops being a simple sphere of equal cells and transforms into a complex structure with three different layers that will give rise to all the organs of the body. But it is also essential to be able to define the axes of the body, that is, knowing where the head will be, the tail and what is right and left. Something that until now was impossible to see because previous models of primate embryos ended up collapsing after day 17. The solution. The research has therefore used a new system of 3D suspension culture which has enabled macaque embryonic stem cells to self-organize and develop complex structures until day 25 outside the uterus. What they have seen. What researchers have observed in these “embryoids” is fascinating because of its similarity to natural embryos. As detailed in the paper from Nature, these models have recapitulated key events of the late gastrulation. Among this, the formation of the central nervous system stands out, the precursor of the digestive system, the first blood cells or even those that in the future will give rise to eggs and sperm. The most surprising thing is that the transcriptomic analysis (the study of which genes are active cell by cell) revealed that differentiation trajectories were similar to those found in natural monkey embryos during this stage. At last. This means that we have, for the first time, a reliable simulator to study human development. Since we share a large part of our biology with macaques, this model allows us to investigate the causes of abortions early spontaneous and congenital malformations without crossing the ethical red lines of experimentation with human embryos. They are not real embryos. This is something fundamental for the limits that ethics imposes on us that we mentioned at the beginning. What has been cultured in this case are not real embryos, but models derived from stem cells where neither eggs nor sperm were involved. This has the aspect that it can never become a viable living being if it is implanted in a uterus and its usefulness is limited only to laboratories to analyze how we are developing and revealing critical points where an embryo can be aborted. In Xataka | There are more and more men obsessed with one thing: donating their semen

Lead the box office in cinemas

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Taylor Swift has done it again: he is accustomed to Shake the ticket offices with premieres that They go for free and that move on the tightrope between the documentary for fans and the unpublished material, but the fact is that he has crowned the box office in a weekend without memorable premieres. But still Swift’s thing is a phenomenon and predicts a reorientation of the box office to a type of film other than the traditional. The launch of a star. The film is’ The Official Release Party of a Showgirl “, the film that accompanies the new star album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, and has raised 33 million in the North American market and another 13 in the rest of the world. The film has been distributed independently as it already did with ‘The Eras Tour’, reaching an agreement with AMC and Variance (a distribution company for service), with which it has reached more of 3,700 rooms. More records. Any vazaña is Swift: never before any artist had placed in his first weekend an album and his accompaniment film in the number one of their respective lists. As Deadline remembersnor did he get it Prince With ‘Purple Rain’ (the soundtrack reached number 3), or Whitney Houston with ‘The bodyguard’ (the film stayed in 2). In addition, ‘The Life of A Showgirl’ has been the second best -selling album in history in its first weekend since digital sales are counted, with 2.7 million physical and digital copies added. No publi. The most curious thing about this success is that the film has barely had a promotion: there have been no trailers or signs in cinemas. Only street advertisements, website and social media machinery of Swift, the envy of many Majors: Direct access to the TLS of more than five hundred million users. One more example of the promotional muscle of the Fandom and the networks when turning a premiere into a success. Towards eventization. This success only confirms, beyond the overwhelming fame that Taylor Swift enjoys, that the cinema is eventizing, that is, that the great premieres are taking the form of events that go beyond the pure footage of the film, something that has almost reserved for the traditional films that circulate in streaming. The films event are premieres designed to live in the room: giant screens, immersive sound and special functions that justify a higher price and a social assistance ritual. Premium experience. While the assistance figures of film rooms are resent with continuous falls (the global collection figure 10% fell in 2024 With respect to 2023, and the change in consumption habits and the impact of strikes seem to be The great responsible), The phenomenon ‘Barbenheimer‘A couple of years ago it seems to have marked a way to consider the premieres that since then you want to repeat. Immersive experiences, films that “must be seen” in cinemas (the last phenomena in that sense were ‘WICKED‘ and ‘A Minecraft movie ‘), Sing-Along versions … The film industry crawls in search of new spectators. Paradoxically, artists completely outside Hollywood seem to have the keys to provide an oxygen ball. In Xataka | Taylor Swift has already released 34 editions from his latest album. OBJECTIVE: Never abandon success lists

A man paid $ 23 for a PC box at an auction. Discovered inside a 24 -core CPU and an RTX 3080 ti

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Online auctions are full of unexpected opportunities, but few stories surprise as much as this. Imagine to enter a local second -hand platform with the idea of ​​getting a simple computer box. You don’t look for anything spectacular, Only a wide chassis for future projectssomething functional and cheap. You make a low, almost symbolic bid, and you don’t expect more than a basic article wrapped in cardboard. However, when picking it up, something does not fit: it weighs more than expected, it sounds different, and what seemed like a routine purchase becomes the beginning of an anecdote that sweeps Reddit. The story was known through Redditwhere the buyer published the discovery in R/PcMasterrace. According to images published by “Llamasusgame”, the box was not empty or contained old pieces, but a complete high -end computer. In his photos you can see a TRX40 aorus pro wifi motherboard with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X processor of 24 cores, accompanied by 256 GB of RAM and a graphics card NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3080 TI. Although the interior shows accumulated dust, the screenshot shared by the user indicates that the system works and recognizes all the hardware. When a cheap bid becomes treasure Operation data are available on the City online Auccans website, Where the lot remains published. It is number 123 and describes a box Fractal Design defines 7 xlwith price of $ 317.99. The final bid was $ 23.50 plus commission, according to the official file. The images associated with the ad barely showed the box inside a cardboard and a catalog photo, without giving clues of its real content. The contrast between the paid price and the real value of the components is striking. According to AMD and NVIDIA launch prices, only the Ryzen Threadripper 3960x processor It was originally sold for $ 1,399while the RTX 3080 TI exceeded $ 1,100 at its departure in 2022. Even with current depreciation, the complete set can reach several thousand dollars in the second -hand market, especially for the large amount of RAM. The announcement of capital City Online Auccans included clear warnings: all articles were sold “AS-IS, without guarantee, or possibility of return. He also insisted in what The bids should be based on the written description And not in the images, which could be filed. The collection was only face -to -face, without shipping option, and the regulations of the site establishes that any dispute must be resolved by arbitration in Ohio. The case raises an interesting issue: how far does the responsibility of a buyer get in such a situation? The user paid what the bid indicated and collected the article according to the standards, so no rule of the auction has breached. However, some commentators in Reddit wonder if he should have warned the company to correct what seems like a cataloging error. The capital policy online Auctions makes it clear that sales are definitive, but the ethical debate is still open: take advantage of luck or return the finding? The purchase of this PC box recalls that at online auctions there is always a risk and surprise component. In this case, the buyer obtained a high -level team For the price of a piece of chassis. Beyond the blow of luck, the story underlines the importance of reading the small print and reviewing the lots before any movement. Images | Calladeusgame (reddit) | Capital City Online Auccans In Xataka | In the Tiktok era, our laptops are still horizontal. Lenovo’s idea: a rotating panel

Why although it seemed to belong to a genre and a condemned franchise, ‘Warren file’ has been a box office bombing

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Absolutely overwhelming has been the box office of the fourth and, apparently, the last installment of ‘Warren file’, subtitled ‘the last rite’, in its first weekend. Can boast of being the second best premiere of a horror movie in history (Only behind ‘IT’ in 2017, although these data always have to take them with tweezers, for that of inflation and other issues that relativize the records). Absolute or only relative triumph, the figures in any case are impressive. When I didn’t have them all the movie to be. The best file. 187 million dollars worldwide (104 of them at the international box office, 83 million in the American, 4.1 in La Española) endorse the premiere as the best in the franchise. It has also been a good support for IMAX screens, where it has generated 14.3 million dollars, the best premiere of the giant format in the horror genre. With these figures, the ‘Warren’ file (which also includes the spin-offs ‘the nun’ and ‘Annabelle’) becomes the highest grossing of horror cinema, with 2.3 billion accumulated dollars. A key moment. This film arrives at a key moment for the franchise. Although the main deliveries of the series have always enjoyed a great box office, Criticism has not always treated them well: this, without going any further, has a 56% in Rotten Tomatoes. Only the first two deliveries rise from 80%, while films such as ‘The Nun’, ‘Annabelle’ or the third ‘Warren’ file are between 25 and 55%. Although Criticism and box office do not always go hand in handit is a reflection of a certain boredom and exhaustion signs that can then have an impact on the box office. It has not been the case, among other things because they are cheap films (between 20 and 50 million budget) and very profitable, however scarce the collection is. Terror is fashionable. To calibrate the proportion of this success, it may be good to compare it with a couple of recent successes of the genre, As Jorge Loser did in Bluesky: Only in his first weekend, ‘The last rite’ has entered 67 million dollars more than ‘the substance’ and ‘return it’ together and in all its careers. And these yes, films venerated by critics. A few weeks ago we talked about How gender is In good streakchaining a success after another (this summer, for example, ‘Weapons’ and the aforementioned’ return to me have dominated the box office): the resurgence of terror in the tastes of the people thanks to the streaming And his low cost in front of the blockbusters are making the genre live an extraordinary moment. The exhausted formula. However, and despite the roller that has made the film with this week’s box office, the bad reception of criticism is natural: the formula has become a copy of itself, and in recent years the clones have emerged everywhere, even outside the franchise itself: ‘Liver us from evil’, ‘ouija’, ‘corpse’, ‘Winchester’ … even in Spain we have had ‘Verónica’ Patron: Demonic houses, possession of innocent creatures and scares very often shot with an identical visual pattern. There is a whole arc of approaches to this style, from The most artie of A24 (which has already configured the aesthetics of the genre with ‘Heredityary’) to that of the most verbenera Blumhouse, which prepares a new sequel to ‘Insidious’, whose first deliveries have also been key to shape this subgenre of horror movies. The box office is no longer infallible but in most cases the public continues to respond very positively. Why horror cinema works despite everything. Apart from the reasons listed above, there is an extra. In times when the industry is buried of clonic formulas, as with absolutely all the large -budget blockbusters and where the authorship of a film has ceased to be a value (the directors of Marvel movies, for example, are completely exchange), horror movies bet on constant surprise and forced differentiation to get attention. Of course, terror is not safe from franchises or farms, but it is taken in another way: with more humor and more carefree. As in ‘Warren File’, belonging to a saga is not a chain that prevents flying free, but an excuse to increase volume and nonsense. The horror cinema has ended up being one of the scarce redoubts of creativity within commercial cinema and the public understands it intuitively. There is no bad criticism that can with that. Header | Warner In Xataka | The great triumph of “high terror”: how fantastic cinema has invaded the main nominations of the 2025 Oscar

The remake of ‘Hold it as you can’ has worked very well at the box office. Excellent news for an almost dead genre: comedy

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The new version of ‘Hold it as you can are not exactly a rarity: in a cinematographic panorama absolutely full of sequelae and remakesa new version of a 1988 classic is not a precisely revolutionary decision. Something more surprising sounds, however, that we are talking about REBOOT of a mythical comedy, which returns to the gender to the rooms through the big door. AGARRATE IT 2025. We all know ‘hold it as you can’: A trilogy of police comedies that the Zaz trio rolled after ‘lands as you can’, and that made Leslie Nielsen late and throbbing star of the surreal chufla. His success unleashed all kinds of imitations, some more fortunate than others (and in Spain, many of them with the “… as you can” by the title), and now enjoy a new installment with Lian Neeson and Pamela Anderson. And all respecting the original canon: destroying parody of the thriller codes, and prominence of a star not known for its comic roles and that puts an unexpected and devastating vision on the table. Well, it has worked. It has not become the number one of the box office (it was possibly either its intention, it remains behind ‘The fantastic 4’ and ‘bad types 2’), but he has had a great start in the United States: 17 million dollars, plus 11.5 million in the countries where it has premiered (Spain does not reach August 22). A budget of 42 million is estimated, so it is an excellent starting point, in a film that can grow and stay in the rooms if your mouth works. And there are reasons to believe that mouth mouth could be activated, because also against any forecast, the film is collecting very good opinions: an a- In Cinemascore and a 90% in Rotten Tomatoes They corroborate it. Long live comedy. This box office triumph is more than a punctual success: it is a success for a genre that had not enjoyed something like that for many years. In fact, Neeson himself ironized about it in An ad that has been seen as the promotion of the filmand in which he claimed different comedies (all from Paramount, producer of this new version): ‘The reporter’, ‘Out of wave’, ‘Hot Rod’, ‘Superdetective in Hollywood’, ‘Rock School’, ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Zoolander’ and others. The web Savecomedy.org Refer to the web where you can buy tickets for the new ‘hold it as you can’. Comedy is a serious thing. Although the video is a joke, the question is very serious. Because the study comedy, with great stars, has not died at all. But Yes has done it in the rooms: Being a genre where the show is not the priority, to a large extent it has been relegated to streaming, or shyly enters combination with other genres to Abrise step towards the rooms. ‘Lilo and Stitch‘It’s family cinema,’ Novocaina ‘is action cinema,’Mickey 17‘, science fiction, and’A Minecraft movie‘, an adventure fantasy. Except for some other very punctual example, such as ‘Bridget Jones: crazy with him’ or ‘somewhat pregnant’, which do not stand out especially at the box office, the case of ‘holding it out as you can’, a pure and adulteration comedy, it is a rarity. Much more that is successful. There are no stars. It is a pity that actors that we previously identified with comedy, such as Will Ferrell, Melissa McCarthy or Adam Sandler have been recycling or directly disappearing from the map (or, in the case of Sandler, taking refuge in the streamingwhere he obtains very juicy dividends). Will we see a resurgence of those times in which ‘Porky’s’ (in the eighties), ‘American Pie’ (in the nineties) or ‘Virgin at forty’ (in the two thousandsses) they generated trends, made authors and distribute emerged and unleashed a wave of copies? Hold it as you can get it in his day, Maybe your reboot can work again. Header | Paramount In Xataka | The figures suggest that the domain of blockbusters in Hollywood is not over. In fact, it will go worse

AI is a great black box that prevented us from knowing how “I thought” inside. Until now

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AI do not have No idea what he says Not why he says it. When he responds almost everything makes sense – even his legs of legs – but he only seems to us, because the machines do not understand what they do. They simply do. We do not know how the IAS think inside, but that seems to be able to change soon. Opening the black box. Those responsible for Anthropiccreator of the chatbot Claude, They affirm having made an important discovery that will begin to understand how the LLM work. These models work as large black boxes: we know what we give them starting (a prompt) and what we get as a result, but it is still a mystery what happens within that “black box” and how the models end up generating the content they generate. Why it is important to know how “think” the AI. The inscrutability of AI models generates important problems. For example, it makes it difficult to anticipate If they “hallucinate” or make mistakesand why they have committed them. Precisely knowing how they work inside would allow better to understand those incorrect responses to correct these problems and improve the behavior of these models. Safer, more reliable. Knowing why the IAS do what they do as they do would also be crucial to be able to trust us much more. These models would therefore allow many more guarantees in areas such as the privacy and protection of the data, something that can be a barrier for companies to use. And reasoning models, what. The appearance of models such as O1 or Deepseek R1 has allowed that during these “reasoning” processes the AI ​​apparently shows what you are doing at all times. That list of minitareas that is completing (“searching the web”, “analyzing the information”, etc.) are useful, but the so -called “chain of thought” does not really reflect how our requests are processing these models. How does Claude calculate how much are 36+59? The mechanism is not entirely clear, but in Anthropic they begin to decipher it. Source: Anthropic. Deciphering how AI thinks. Anthropic experts have created a tool that tries to decipher that black box. It is something like magnetic resonance scannars that study the human brain and allow to detect which brain regions play their role in certain cognitive areas. Long -term responses. Although models such as Claude are trained to predict the following word in a sentence, in some tasks it seems that Claude makes a kind of longer term planning of the task. For example, if we ask you to write a poem Claude you first find words that fit the theme of the poem and then go back to create the phrases that will generate the verses and rhymes of the poem. A language to think, many to translate. Although Claude has multi -mounted support, Anthropic experts reveal that their operation by handling several languages ​​is not “thinking” in those languages ​​directly. Instead use concepts that are common in several languages, so It seems to “reason” in the same language and then translate the exit to the desired language. The models cheat. That research also revealed that the models They can lie about what they are doing And they can even pretend that they are thinking when they really already have the answer to our request. One of Claude’s developers, Josh Batson, explained how “although (the model) claims to have made a calculation, our interpretability techniques do not reveal any indication that it has occurred.” How Anthropic’s deciphering works. The Anthropic method makes use of the call Cross-Layer Transcoder (CLT) that works analyzing interpretable sets instead of trying to analyze individual “neurons”. For example, these characteristics could be all conjugations of a specific verb. That allows researchers to identify complete “circuits” of neurons that tend to join in these processes. A good start. In the past OpenAi already tried to discover How their AI models thoughtbut it was not very successful. Anthropic’s work has notable limitations, and for example he does not know why the LLM pay more attention to certain parts of the Prompt than others. Even so, according to Batson “in a year or two we will know more about how these models think about what people think.” In Xataka | Universal Music has just stumbled against Anthropic by Copyright: a victory for AI technology

This disastrous adaptation of one of the most beloved series of the 80s was a box office failure. But he’s sweeping in Netflix

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He caught the attention at the time for two very different issues: on the one hand, it is the adaptation, hopeful, of one of the most legendary anime of the eighties, one that, in Spain, in addition, ignited the fondness of Japanese animation as significantly as his contemporaries ‘Dragon Ball’ or ‘Champions’. On the other, it was notorious for his Capital failure: only seven million dollars at the box officea completely improper collection for an adaptation of such a known series. We talk, of course, ‘The Knights of Zodiac’based on the legendary manga of Masami Kurumada and its running anime version, and now it is Available in Netflix. Interestingly, and although the number 1 in films is occupied by the (either very brilliant) ”Electric status‘, has reached a surprising number 2. Once again, films that are shipwrecked in cinemas find their space on the platforms of streamingwhere spectators find it easier to take a risk in search of content. In this new version we will meet Seiya, a teenage conflicting who makes a living fighting for money while looking for her kidnapped sister. When In one of his fights, mystical powers are revealed that he did not know, The young man discovers a world of saints at war, magical training and a reincarnated goddess who asks for her protection. It has a reserved place within the Knights of the Zodiac. The quality of the film was compared at the time with the disastrous adaptation in real image of ‘Dragon Ball’, although ‘The Knights of Zodiac’ is, perhaps, a step above. The sympathetic presence of a couple of stars in low hours (Famke Janssen and Mark Dacascos) and some, despite everything, overwhelming combat choreographies, make the disturbing disturbing in times: between horrendous digital effects and sub -sub -branches of a devastating ramp, a completely unworthy film of the epic touch and the adorable ingenuity of the original mangain. In Xataka | The anime triumphs in Netflix, and the figures sing: the platform is already one of the world’s Japanese animation

‘Mickey 17’ is the new dystopian science fiction film that leads the box office. The problem is not enough

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There are times in which to crown the box office with a number 1 means nothing: ‘Mickey 17’, the new Bong Joon Ho movie, director of ‘Parasites‘ and ‘Snowpiercer‘, has been number 1 on American lists. Even so, the high cost of this ecologist dystopia of satirical dyes make it a questionable investment for Warner and, above all, the finding that in Hollywood they still do not curdle the ambitious projects that are not sequelae or reboots. The figures. ‘Mickey 17’ He has pocketed Only in the United States 19.1 million dollars, which are added 25.4 in 66 international territories. Not bad for a real -extravagant movie and that has dethroned films such as Marvel’s last captain America (also with good collection, but with a trajectory that has had to turn on Some other red light in Disney). However, its cost of 118 million, to which to add about 80 in marketing and distribution, leaves the approximately 300 million that it should raise so that Warner does not consider it a failure. A quick comparison. If the question is whether these amounts are expected, we can compare them with those of your immediate rival at the box office: ‘Captain America: Brave New World’ collected 88 million at the box office In its first weekend, and although it started from a budget much higher than the one to aim (200 million), to exceed 50 million in the United States would have been closer to a satisfactory figure for Warner. Doubtful direction. To this initial collection, which The first analyzes estimate as insufficient Before the challenge of reaching the 300 million commented, it is added that the film has not aroused a unanimous opinion between criticism and public: Its mere 78%-72% In ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ it is not especially high (especially considering that its director has signed films that have previously dazzled to public and critical). Among the obstacles of the film to improve its collection in successive weeks is the extravagant argument (Pattinson gives life to a worker who in the future is cloned again and again every time he dies in the course of the dangerous mission of helping to colonize an icy world), and also his tone of farce, acid and very little commercial, which is detected in all the films of the Korean director, but that is ever unleashed here. Warner: decisive year. Without successes guaranteed as new sequelae of its star franchises (‘Dune‘ and ‘Godzilla‘) In perspective, Warner has a year full of very expensive productions but are not a guaranteed success. For example, ‘Alto Knights’, Robert De Niro’s return to a certain “prestigious” cinema; ‘Sinners’, one blaxoploitation vampire of the director of ‘Black Panther’; ‘A Minecraft movie’, whose first advances have a chilling appearance; and the start of James Gunn DC Universewhich looks very good, but that does not have the best precedents. Only sequelae. The prick of ‘Mickey 17’ is one more symptom of the latest trends of a Hollywood that seems to have turned its back on the original high -budget products: by sujuesto that there is always space for a ‘Anoraor any other bombing indie. But The 2024 figures made it clear: sequels and REBOOTS They mark the step at the box office: no Top 10 movie was completely original. The success of ‘Barbie’ (which is not that it was an absolutely isolated product of a franchise) and ‘Oppenheimer’ the previous year It was little more than a mirage. Without franchise there is no return. There is an extra detail that should underline so that it does not go unnoticed: the budget of 120 million dollars is high, but it is triggered to levels that rival the Marvel herself if we add the very high expenses in marketing. This means that on many occasions, the films bet in a lost depth, knowing that only with a box office can not be recovered, but trusting that it is achieved with derived products: books, video games, attractions in parks, spin-offs … and above all, that money serves as something already invested as part of the future marketing of sequelae. A fish that bite the tail and is condemning the original blockbusters such as ‘Mickey 17’. Header | Warner In Xataka | Warner has a problem with the new Harry Potter series: JK Rowling’s opinions

The box office did not treat it well, but this stimulating apocalyptic fable now reaches prime video and it is worth recovering it

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There are those who tire postapocalyptic films with arbitrary rules that must be met to survive. Do not make noise. Don’t look. Don’t talk. Do not move. And in ‘You never release‘, that now premiere prime videothe rule is clear from the first moment: do not stop grabbing your classmates, do not stay alone, or get on the way. However, this proposal starts from that point to go in a very dike direction A manido start, yes, but effective and reserves a good amount of surprises. Everything fits that in command of this party we have Alexandre Aja, the Frenchman who terrified us at the beginning of his career with the extraordinary remake of ‘Las Colinas has eyes’, and that he has then developed a career full of ups and downs, yes, but With pieces of pure horror as estimated as ‘high voltage’, ‘Piraña 3D’, ‘Hell underwater’ or ‘oxygen’. On this occasion, Aja presents us with two twin children who live sections in a cabin in the depth of the forest with his mother (Halle Berry), which tells them about a dangerous spirit that lives abroad. To survive they must always be together, even tied by strings. It is a measure that will begin to question according to children are growing and suspect that the world does not work as they have told them. Mental illnesses, traumas and overprotection are some of the ingredients of this tense story not exactly apocalyptic (although moods are very there). Full of macabre details that certify the good visual taste of AJA, ‘You never let go’, unfortunately, it was received very timidly at the box officeand raised only 21.8 million dollars compared to the already lean 20 that had a budget. It is time to recover it and give it a new opportunity. In Xataka | ‘Oxygen’: a science fiction thriller of Netflix and Alexandre Aja (‘High voltage’) in which surprises and claustrophobia abound

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