The story repeats itself. another summer, Premieres of Safe Santiago movie and another summer sweeps the box office. It’s starting to become a tradition as the director shatters expectations with his new foray into family cinema. Despite the criticism, Segura is connecting with viewers, and with the third installment of Father there is only one confirms it. The new film raised €3.1 million in its first four days and attracted over half a million viewers. It is the best premiere of the franchise, which with its first film reached 1,762,576 and with the second 2,186,263 in its first days in theaters. It’s also the best premiere of a Spanish film since 2016, as reported by Sony, the film’s distributor.
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Now it remains to be seen what its path will be, but being a family film, a genre that works very well during the holidays and in everyday life, it surely threatens to be the biggest hit of the saga. in just four days Father there is only one 3 surpasses Alcarràs, who until now had the honor to be the highest-grossing Spanish film of the year with 2,092,275 euros, a spectacular figure for adult and auteur cinema. Segura surpassed it in a single weekend with a film released in 449 theaters, the most screens since 2019.
Expectations weren’t that high, especially since the competition was fierce. There were many films aimed at family audiences, including the third installment of Minionswho settled for third place, and the new Marvel, Thor: Love and Thunder, which has yielded first place to the flagship family of the saga led by Santiago Segura, who is surely already preparing a new opus. This isn’t the director’s first franchise to hit the box office, as he was behind Torrente, whose five films were all-time hits. The director was able to read the change in the audience and turned to a white and harmless comedy, and the results are spectacular.
He is now preparing the second part of another saga, that of everybody practice, whose first film was the highest-grossing Spanish film in 2021 with 8,493,358 euros. For four years, the title of our most profitable cinema has been directed by him. Indeed, in 2020, when the cinemas had just opened the shutters after the confinement and that no film arrived from Hollywood, he advanced the premiere of Father there is only one 2, which gave air to the cinemas thanks to its excellent result. In 2019, Father there is only one It was the highest-grossing Spanish film of the year with 14,240,856 euros. A year later, its sequel did the same with 12,940,792.
Air for Spanish Cinema
The figures of Father there is only one 3 they are a breath of fresh air for Spanish cinema. While Hollywood cinema had managed to bring people back to theaters, especially with family and teenage cinema thanks to sagas like Marvel or jurassic parkin addition to animated films such as MinionsSpanish films had not achieved any mass phenomenon. None of the titles that should have swept did. Nor the terror with Grandmothernor Telecinco Cinema productions such as Malnazidos or comedies that years ago would have worked like The game of keys got a correct result.
Segura breaks this curse and improves the figures of the industry, which until now had only added 16.8 million euros out of a total collection of 186.6 million according to data from the Taquilla España site, which analyzes each week all results of film premieres. The family cinema continues to work, and this year again the director will perhaps prove it, since the sequel to everybody practice is set to premiere on December 2, 2022, on Christmas dates that may make it the second biggest hit of the year and achieve something that has never been seen, as the two highest-grossing films of the year in Spanish cinema are made by the same person.