BO Germany/Austria: Dune first 2024 blockbuster (3mil admissions)

[IndustriousAngel]

And today is the first day day for two wide openers - "Buddy" and "Der Medicus" - and it seems Bully Herbig has lost his golden hand for the BO, there's 4 shows for "Buddy" at my theater today which have pre-sold, in total, 4 seats atm ... this is as bad as "Walking with Dinosaurs" if not worse. "Der Medicus" otoh does really good numbers, has pre-sold about 80 seats and might - if it doesn't lose much steam - open to #2 this weekend! (Hard to tell atm; "Frozen" has only pre-sold about 10 seats but with children's film, it's always about walk-in business)

[Leyla]

Machete was a hilarious film

glad it does well somewhere

[IndustriousAngel]

Machete was a hilarious film

glad it does well somewhere

haven't yet seen it but I'll give it a chance, I liked the first one for what it was.

[IndustriousAngel]

MarkG from insidekino.de did a pre-weekend trend - it's only early Thursday so he gives ranges, not fixed numbers - here we go:

 

#1: Hobbit2 - range 1,0mil - 1,25mil admissions

#2: Der Medicus - range 725k - 900k

#3: Frozen - range 500k - 625k

#4: FJG! - range 350k - 425k

#5: Buddy - range 275k - 325k

#6: CF - range 150k - 175k

 

what a weekend ... just wow! Theaters must be packed everywhere! Severe popcorn and softdrink shortages expected ...

[Leyla]

haven't yet seen it but I'll give it a chance, I liked the first one for what it was.

its trashy fun 

[IndustriousAngel]

First "real" weekend trend with more definite numbers:

#1: Hobbit2 - 1.100k admissions

#2: Der Medicus - 900k

#3: Frozen - 525k

#4: FJG! - 325k

#5: Buddy - 325k

#6: CF - 150k

[juni78ukr]

So around 10m for Der Medicus or even more. Will be released here in February.

[IndustriousAngel]

Final weekend trend:

#1: Hobbit2 - 1.075k admissions

#2: Der Medicus - 800k

#3: Frozen - 525k

#4: FJG! - 325k

#5: Buddy - 300k

#6: CF - 150k

#7: Dinos - 60k

#8: DügünDernek - 55k

#9: Machete Kills - 45k

[IndustriousAngel]

[lab276]

Crazy days, must be the best December since propably forever!

Yeah, Insidekino's week by week feature shows that basically every week of the month so far has shown a good 20%+ improvement over last year, that could lead to nearly 17m admissions for the month. Not since 2003 has it been that high.

[keysersoze123]

what is the best case scenario for Frozen? 5M admissions?

[IndustriousAngel]

what is the best case scenario for Frozen? 5M admissions?

Seems really impossible, with schools restarting on Jan 7th - but it will have a nice enough 6th weekend! 4.5mil is about what it should make.

[Poseidon]

It isn't impossible at all.

Tangled made another 1m admissions after school-holidays ended, coming from a ~380k admission weekend. Frozem should be around 3.8m admissions after the coming weekend, which should be able to top those 380k tangled did, so 5m is possible with Fünf Freunde 3 being the only competition until Mr. Peabody and Sherman opens in late February.

Edited January 1, 2014 by Poseidon

[Fancyarcher]

A little disappointing for Frozen.

 

Hopefully it has good legs.

[zackzack]

Will HOBBIT beat GOTHE?

[IndustriousAngel]

Will HOBBIT beat GOTHE?

Actually that's the good question atm - really a surprise hit with giant legs! Very possible if H2 keeps dropping abit faster than H1.

[Poseidon]

I think Goehte will win in the long run incl. open air showings in summer...

[IndustriousAngel]

First weekend of 2014, first trend:

#1: Hobbit2 - 650k admissions

#2: Medicus - 575k

#3: Frozen - 400k

#4: FJG! - 300k

 

Openers PA:TMO and SLoWM trend towards 250k resp. 275k, #6 and #5

 

To conclude: No end to the December blockbuster domination.

[zackzack]

Will THE HOBBIT/DoS hit $100M in Germany?

Edited January 3, 2014 by zackzack

[Poseidon]

Will THE HOBBIT/DoS hit $100M in Germany?

 

With no Django and a very weak overall january, legs could be better than last year, so maybe, but I think it will land around 95m or so.

But it's just a number, inflated by many factors. There's another number, that can't lie: Admissions.