Argentine cinema found in “Homo Argentum” His lifeguards of the middle of the year. According to data provided by the Ultracine portal, the comedy starring Guillermo Francella lOgraed to sell 1,385,000 tickets in just 18 days, an impulse that allowed the national box office to leave the well where he had fallen during July. In August, the rebound was noticed when 3,620,000 tickets were cut, against 3,220,000 of the same month in 2024, an improvement of 12.4% in the attendance at theaters.
The title led by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat It has already become the fifth most watched film of 2025 and, in the next few days, it will climb to fourth place when it exceeds “How to train your dragon” (1,415,000). The Argentine tape will also leave behind “Jurassic World: Renace“(1,580,000), although reaching 1,820,000 “A Minecraft movie” “Segunda in the annual ranking,” it will be a major challenge. At the top, with abysmal distance, it remains “Lilo & Stitch” and its 3,720,000 spectators, a figure that seems impossible to match.
The last weekend of August confirmed the trend, “Homo Argentum” added 200,000 attendees in 465 rooms, despite a 49% drop compared to the previous week. Even so, 55% of the national public stayed, that is, almost 364,000 people. None of the premieres managed to shade, “Pets to the rescue” gathered 19,000 tickets on 190 screens, “Los Roses” just 12,000 in 110, and “trapped stealing” did not reach 6,000 in 126.
Outstanding for its particular structure, the film led by the filmmakers of “The illustrious citizen” and “My masterpiece” It develops 16 self -clusive episodes, ranging from 1 to 12 minutes, in which the charismatic comedian assumes a wide variety of roles. The majority of specialized critics portals did not forgive the narrative or approaches of the story. Some of the writings made by the local chroniclers cataloged it as an irregular film, pointing to the lack of precision in the general result of the tape.
On the other hand, the general panorama of national cinema is still fragile. According to the other site, so far from 2025, the ticket offices accumulate 24.5 million tickets sold, a modest figure compared to the historical standards of the sector. It is enough to remember that 2024, considered a lazy year for cinema in the country, closed with 35 million viewers.
From here to December, the market must add at least 10.5 million tickets to match last year’s statistics. The performance of “Homo Argentum” opened an optimism window, but the great unknown is whether the last four -month period of the year will hold that recovery in an audiovisual industry very beaten by the public’s retraction and the weakened national film production.
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