"Avengers" for the third weeks leading in the Russian box office

The Avengers film about the superhero team leads the third week in Russian, as well as in the world box office , collecting almost $ 3 million in Russia and the CIS from the weekend from May 17 to 20, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kinobusiness.com portal.

The total fees of the picture in the Russian -speaking version amounted to a little more than $ 41 million, and in total the film raised $ 1.18 billion in the world. Thus, the Avengers even before the completion of the rental became the most box office in the history of Disney studio, overtaking the “Pirates of the Caribbean” with their $ 1.07 billion, and took the fourth position in the ten cash records of the planet.

The scandalous comedy "The Dictator" was immediately on the second line of the Russian rental rating, earned $ 2.5 million for the first weekend. The new joint project of Larry Charles and Sasha Baron Cohen pushed the vampire thriller with Johnny “Dark Shadows” to the third position, whose earnings were $ 2.4 million, which brought the total fee of the picture to $ 9.4 million.

The Scientific and Fantastic action movie "Dalm" (Lockout), produced by Luke Besson, made his debut on the fourth line of the table. The painting by James Meser and Stephen Saint-Roader about a space prison earned $ 1.5 million for the first weekend.

In fifth place was the romantic comedy “What to wait for the child to explode” (What to Expect when You're Expecting), its box office for the first weekend amounted to 566 thousand dollars. Among the actors who played in the tape about young parents, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Anna Kendrick, Chris Rock and others.

Last week, in the five leaders of the Russian rental there were three domestic paintings - the White Tiger Karen Shakhnazarov, the “match” by Andrei Malyukov and Sergei Bezrukov as the goalkeeper and the comedy “Nannish” Ashota Keshchyan. This week in the leaders only foreign films.