It seems that Avatar: Fire and Ash He found a tall rival.
This week, Amazon MGM Studios The science fiction thriller will be released in theaters Mercytitled in our region as Mercilesslyfrom the director Timur Bekmambetov (Profile, Wanted), and the protagonists Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) y Rebecca Ferguson (Dune).
The projections of expert analysts indicate that Mercy would be the film in charge of dethroning Avatar: Fire and Ash by James Cameron from number one at the American box officea position you have dominated for five weeks.
It is predicted that the debut of Mercy accumulate from $10 million to $13 million dollars, while Fire and Ash would gross between $8 million to $10 million dollars (via Variety).
SOME CURIOUS FACTS:
- The global box office Avatar 3 At the moment it is $1.7 billion dollars.
- The first two installments were positioned at number 1 at the box office for 7 consecutive weekends.
- Avatar (2009) is the highest-grossing film in the history of cinema with $2.9 billion, and the second installment, Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) is the third highest grossing of all time with $2.3 billion.
Mercy will be released in 3,400 theaters in the United States. In Mexico and the rest of Latin America it will be distributed in theaters by Sony Pictures starting this week.
This is the first high-profile release from Amazon MGM Studios, which will later release projects such as Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling, the adaptation of Masters of the Universeand the adaptation Veritybased on the novel by Coleen Hoover, starring Anne Hathaway.
In Mercyartificial intelligence is the future of criminal justiceand its misuse could end everything.
Pratt plays Los Angeles Detective Raymond, accused by an AI court of murdering his wife. The system allows defendants to prove their innocence within 90 minutes. The artificial judge, who will determine his fate, is played by Ferguson.
The plot takes place in real time.
The production used body cameras and drones to film the film, and robot dogs to film crowd scenes.
The cast also includes Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country), Kenneth Choi (9-1-1), Annabelle Wallis (Malignant), y Chris Sullivan (This Is Us).
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:
“In the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) is put on trial, accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence before the advanced Judge IA (Rebecca Ferguson), whom he himself once defended, before she decides his fate.”
The script was written by Marco van Belle.
The producers are Bekmambetov, Robert Amidon, Majd Nassif, and Charles Roven, with Mark Moran serving as executive producer.
Mercilessly in theaters from January 22 in Latin Americaand the January 23 in the United States.
Source: https://cine3.com/mercy-destronara-numero-uno-avatar-fire-and-ash/
