“The Master and Margarita” topped the box office in Russia and the CIS for the third weekend. The film based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel has already earned more than 1.4 billion rubles.
The film “The Master and Margarita” the third weekend topped the box office in Russia and the CIS, the data posted on the site of the Unified Federal Automated Information System of information about the screening of films in cinemas (EAIS). According to the information provided on the EAIS, as of February 12 on the account of the film “Master and Margarita” was 1.4 billion rubles. The production budget of the picture is 1.2 billion rubles.
According to the results of last weekend, the top-5 box office collections of new movies looks like this:
“Master and Margarita”;
“The End of Glory”;
“Bremen musicians”;
“Holop-2.”
“Air”.
In the rating of novelties this year, the picture based on the book by Mikhail Bulgakov takes the third place, on the EAIS site the rating of leaders is headed by “Holop-2” with Milos Bikovich, on the second line “Bremen musicians” with Tikhon Zhiznevsky and Konstantin Khabensky.
The main roles in the movie “Master and Margarita” played spouses Evgeny Tsyganov and Julia Snigir. The image of Woland embodied German actor August Diehl (“Inglorious Basterds”), Pontius Pilate – Danish Klas Bang (“Square”, “Varyag” and the series “Dracula”), and Joshua – Aaron Vadovoz (“King’s Man: The Beginning”).
Koroviev became Yuri Kolokolnikov (“The Seventh Fleece”) , Azazello – Alexei Rozin (“Survivors”), Gella played by Paulina Aug (“Dyldy”). The creator of the screen adaptation was a creative tandem of director Mikhail Lokshin and screenwriter Roman Kantor, who previously worked on the film “Silver Skates”, which was sold to streaming Netflix.”Master and Margarita” appeared on the big screens on January 25, 2024, having collected for its first weekend 415 million rubles. The picture retained its leadership in the second week of distribution
