Three New Year’s comedies topped the Russian box office last weekend. In this respect reports “Film Distributor’s Bulletin.”
All films earned about 70 million rubles over the weekend. The box office leader was again “Mother-in-Law” with Larisa Guzeeva and Garik Kharlamov, with a box office revenue of 74 million rubles, while “Yolki 10” took the second place with 72 million rubles, and the new product took the third place. “Manyunya: New Year’s Adventures” for 70 million rubles. “Manyunya” was the best premiere of the week and showed the best average occupancy rate with 21 people per session.
According to the scenario of “Mother-in-law”, the heroine Olga Nikolaevna is on duty at home and at work, and the only person who disturbs the order in her life is her son-in-law. Nastasya Samburskaya, Alexander Lykov, Mark Bogatyrev, Nikita Tarasov also starred. Askar Uzabaev took the director’s chair.
In fifth place was another holiday novelty – “New Year’s Chef” with 30 million rubles.
On the eve of Lithuanian cinemas boycotted Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie “The Boy and the Bird” because of its “connections with Russia.”
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Source: Gazeta

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