{"id":381467,"date":"2026-10-20T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=381467"},"modified":"2026-10-21T05:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:24:49","slug":"the-black-ball-paves-its-way-to-the-oscar-with-a-record-not-seen-since-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-black-ball-paves-its-way-to-the-oscar-with-a-record-not-seen-since-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Black Ball\u2019 paves its way to the Oscar with a record not seen since \u2018Parasite\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

At first, the biggest doom-mongers said that screening La Bola Negra at Cannes was absurd: the film was applauded for 20 minutes and won the award for Best Director. Then they said nobody would care at the Spanish box office: it has sailed past 4 million viewers without breaking a sweat and is already the fourth highest-grossing Spanish film in history<\/strong>. Next was to point out that it was going to bomb in the United States. You’ll never guess what happened.<\/p>\n

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Then came the lucky break<\/h2>\n\n

La Bola Negra posted the best per-theater average this weekend, with $69,375. Mind you, it has only played in 4 theaters, but enough to clear $275,000 and outdo, for example, what Avengers: Endgame did in 320 theaters. Of course, this is very unusual, and that’s because the leads and directors have done several Q&As in theaters<\/strong>, in addition to featuring songs by Guitarricadelafuente, its star.<\/p>\n\n

Specifically, it’s the second-best per-theater average in history for a non-English-language film, behind only the opening in 3 theaters of Parasite a few years ago. It’s one of the first times Netflix<\/a> has released its actual box-office figures, and that’s because it’s clearly very proud: it will expand the release in the coming days to see whether the La Bola Negra effect is real and how strong its Oscar chances are<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

This is the last refuge for La Bola Negra’s haters, and they do exist: the Oscars. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi are well positioned to land nominations<\/strong>, at the very least, for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Non-English-Language Film, and, depending on its box office and popularity, the sky’s the limit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At first, the biggest doom-mongers said that screening La Bola Negra at Cannes was absurd: the film was applauded for 20 minutes and won the award for Best Director. Then they said nobody would care at the Spanish box office: it has sailed past 4 million viewers without breaking a sweat and is already the … Continue reading “\u2018The Black Ball\u2019 paves its way to the Oscar with a record not seen since \u2018Parasite\u2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":381466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-381467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381470,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381467\/revisions\/381470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381467"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=381467"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=381467"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=381467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}