Nicolas Lopez’s ‘Do It Like an Hombre’ Smashes 2017 Mexican Movie Records John Hopewell - Variety
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#HazloComoHombre is a comedy that follows the lives of two young couples who are not only in love – but best friends (PantelionFilms)

Having directed Chilean smash hit “Sin Filtro,” Nicolás Lopez looks like he has done it again. But in a far bigger market than his native Chile and with a Spanish-language comedy which, distributed by Pantelion and starring Mauricio Ochmann (“El Chema”) and Aislinn Derbez (“Win It All”), has U.S. potential.

Bowing Aug.10 in Mexico, Lopez’s first Mexican movie as a director, “Hazlo como Hombre” (“Do It Like an Hombre”), which Pantelion releases Sept. 1 in the U.S., opened No. 1 on Thursday, punching $591,537 at the Mexican box office, over double the biggest U.S. bow, “Baby Driver” ($239,565).

That’s also getting on for double the first-day box office trawl for “Que Culpa Tiene el Niño?” – Mexico’s biggest local hit of 2016, which went on to earn $14.4 million in Mexico.

These are just opening night figures. But they do raise the question of how much “Do It Like an Hombre” could gross not just in Mexico but also the U.S.

The movie has made the biggest Thursday-night bow of any Mexican film in history, according to Lopez who told Variety that “Do It Like an Hombre’s” distributor Videocine, the theatrical distribution arm of Televisa which partners Lionsgate in Pantelion, in now raising “Hazlo’s” print-run to 2,000, a spread used by Hollywood blockbusters.

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