The weekend of September 12 proved to be surprisingly busy at the box office, though, on paper, it seemed to be. "Demos Slejer: Infinite Castle" led the road with a stunning $ 70 million debutBut that was just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately, with a wealth of options available to potential films, the long -awaited comedy sequel remained in dust.

"Spinal Tap II: The end continues", a sequel to Great mockery in 1984 in 1984 "This is the Spinal Fountain", Open at just $ 1.67 million to $ 1,920 at home over the weekend. Landed on the number nine of the graphs as a whole. It made an average of $ 872 for a screen. Unfortunately, for Blacker Street and spinal fountain members, this descends as a theater flop. He closely beaten the re -release of "Sound of Music", which drags $ 1.6 million.

In addition to the "Demon Slejer", other newcomers were included "Downton Opatija: The Grand Final" ($ 18.1 million) and "Long Walk" ($ 11.5 million). Then there was "the last rituals" ($ 25.6 million), who came from a record weekend for horror movie. Not to mention Pixar's "Toy Story" ($ 3.5 million). It all left very little space for "spinal cord Tap II" to breathe, unfortunately.

The sequel is elected 41 years after the announcement of the attractive ridicule "This is the spinal fountain", centered on the now -set bands David St. Habins, Nigel Tufell and Derek Smiles (Michael McCain, Christopher guest and Harry Sharter). Rob Rainer has returned to direct his follow -up, despite reproducing his role as fictitious director Marty Dibergi.

Painful, although it may be to say, the inability of this film to draw a crowd in box office is surprising. In recent years, comedy has been much larger in the field of streaming, With movies like Vince Vaughan, finding a large audience on Netflix. All the time, theater comedies are struggling strongly during the Pandemic era, with only Roma comments, such as "everyone, but you" ($ 220 million worldwide) or the "lost city" ($ 193 million around the world) to become hits for the most part.

Over the past few years, we have seen films like "Wandering" ($ 36 million worldwide), "Joy Riding" ($ 15 million worldwide) and other theater. There are rare surprises, such as Sony's "one of them" ($ 52 million worldwide) earlier this year. Paramount's naked gun has also withdrawn $ 101 million so far, becoming a modest hit against her budget over/under $ 40 million.

In this case, however, it would always be a tough battle. For one, "This is the spinal fountain" is a beloved comedyBut it's still a pretty fake movie, after making less than $ 6 million globally. Even if we set the comedy fighting during the Pandemic era, long -term comedy extensions often had a difficult time. "Zulander 2" ($ 56 million worldwide) is a major example. A couple that with the fact that Blacker Street has no resources at a big studio to place the film, not to mention factoring in this weekend, and are very left without a win.

The good news for all involved is that "spinal tap II" has a $ 22 million budget. Among whatever overseas box office, you need to collect, eventual revenue from VOD/streaming, Blu-ray sales, and even a renewed interest in the original film, it is likely to return its money-or at least, it will not lose much. It's just a shame that it's another brick in the Wallid that tells Hollywood at all that the comedy has done for the big screen just doesn't work anymore.

"Spinal Tap II: The end continues" is now in the cinema.