Luc Besson’s Dracula becomes first at the Italian box office of the weekend

The bad news is that, al weekend Italian box officethe new proposals failed to enter the top five, but the good news is that not everything is swept away as the weeks pass: as a small twist, Dracula: Lost Love Of Luc Besson he bypassed Life goes like this Of Riccardo Milaniplacing itself in first place in the ranking, pushing its rival to second. Besson’s Stokerian romanticism, supported by Caleb Landry Jones as Vlad, Zoë Blue in those of Mina / Elisabeta e Christoph Waltz like Van Helsing, he continued to win the hearts of our audience with another 1,052,500 euros, for an Italian total so far of almost 3,500,000. According to Paris Match, the major production cost around fifty million dollars, and has currently raised around 22 million worldwide, but the film has not yet been released in the USA, England or Spain.

With regard to Life goes like this by Milani, the film grossed another 950,000 euros with a Virginia Raffaele torn between affection for her father, a Sardinian farmer, and the temptation to sell property to project herself into the world outside. The comedy, which also stars Aldo, Diego Abatantuono e Geppi Cucciari boasts a total box office of around 5,290,000 euros (for now it is the second best result of the season, source Cinetel).
He is satisfied with a debut in third position Predator: Badlands Of Then Trachtenbergreturn to the cinema of the popular fantasy-horror franchise, where this time the “hero” is indeed an example of the bloodthirsty aliens, supported by what remains of an android played by Elle Fanning. The starting point is 745,800 euros, but it cannot be said that it was lukewarm everywhere, on the contrary. In the USA the 20th Century Studios / Disney film debuted with 40 million dollars (about ten more than what analysts expected), with a worldwide total already of 80 million dollars, compared to a budget placed by Variety at around 100: we are far from breaking even, but the start seems good. According to Boxoffice Pro it helped a production built on a lighter censorship rating, PG-13 instead of the usual Restricted of the saga.
With around 620,000 euros (1,650,000 in total), Paolo Virzì’s latest film slips from third to fourth place, Five secondswhere a self-exiled Valerio Mastandrea comes into contact with a community of young people who want to restart an abandoned estate.
Grotesque, on the other hand, remained stable in fifth position Bugonia di Yorgos Lanthimos, CEO of the Emma Stone she is kidnapped by two brothers who think she is aalien in disguise. The film with Jesse Plemons e Aidan Delbis it reached us for 1,611,000 euros (260,000 over the weekend), while in the world it is at 23,150,000 dollars: too little to justify the budget of 50 million reported by Deadline.

The complete weekend box office