"Kolobok, Kolobok! I'll Eat You": Russian Blockbuster Fails Even Before Its Release. Audiences Want to Watch "Spider-Man"

Judging by cinema websites, tickets for tomorrow's premiere of "The Last Knight: Kolobok" are extremely unpopular. A quick check NotMoscow shows that for 18-hour sessions in Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Penza, Ivanovo, Arkhangelsk и Kaliningrad Only a few tickets were purchased (the most in Irkutsk - eight, the least in Vladivostok and Ivanovo - zero seats).

People in public groups are writing that the film was a flop even before its release. And they're indignant that it took a whole month. were postponed the premiere of the new part about "Spider-Man".

As a sign of revenge, users of the Kinoafisha service appropriated "Kolobok" received just over one point—it was ranked last among this year's films before its first public screenings.

According to Beware of News, the painting earned Pre-sales grossed just 3,6 million rubles (with the Cinema Fund allocating 250 million rubles for filming). Meanwhile, "Spider" grossed nearly a billion dollars worldwide in its debut weekend alone.

Among the scandals that surround Kolobok is the director’s correspondence Anton Maslov with a Moscow electrician who said that Soviet cartoons were better drawn. In response, Maslov found his critic's personal Telegram channel and began to accuse him, using obscene language, of poor quality work in installing sockets and electrical wiring.

Will you go to see Kolobok?