IndustriousAngel

First weekend estimates from insidekino.de #1: BadBoys3 - 450k (incl previews) - excellent! #2: 1917 - 180k (incl previews) - also better than I expected, fine number! #3: StarWars9 - 135k (-47%) #4: KnivesOut - 120k (-35%) #5: Lindenberg! - 130k (incl. previews) I'd expect SW9 to drop harder than 50% in the end, but the good openers are making up for that, fine weekend!

#1 seems to be very very safe for BadBoys3 ... StarWars3 is dropping extremely hard (at my theater, only 7 (seven) tickets sold for tomorrow (Friday) - ugh 🤒

8/10, A- fine piece of solar-system SF (there's too few of them) with a nice story and theme. The one drawback were some impossible (and completely unnecessary) stunts at the end while most other times, the science aspect stayed pretty realistic.

7/10, B+ reminded me a bit of the Hobbit films ... too much budget and CGI, and an overly complicated plot - but watchable for the performance of the main actor (or in this case, actress). Tessa Thompson really manages to keep this mess from imploding. I wish they could have given Chris Hemsworth a better character, the original MiB movies were buddy stories, here he's more like a sidekick.

would be nice, another (small) hit after the holidays!

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Star Wars 9 253.321 682 371 4.762.621 55.036.180 -58 4 2 Knives Out 187.296 538 348 495.641 4.482.777 -18 2 3 Jumanji 2 171.041 632 271 2.085.947 19.553.200 -49 5 4 Frozen 2 149.608 671 223 6.267.430 51.399.409 -58 8 5 Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl 92.925 598 155 617.096 5.242.617 -42 3 6 Vier zauberhafte Schwestern 89.885 469 192 110.209 757.006 - 1 7 Das perfekte Geheimnis 85.284 572 149 4.922.473 43.582.895 -44 11 8 Spies in Disguise 61.976 446 139 412.000 3.089.171 -52 3 9 The Grudge 52.596 227 232 52.596 473.610 - 1 10 Charlie's Angels 27.959 233 120 122.418 993.429 -54 2 11 Latte Igel und der magische Wasserstein 20.903 347 60 131.512 859.289 -46 3 12 Der kleine Rabe Socke 3 20.399 536 38 253.094 1.640.961 -46 5 13 Queen & Slim 20.033 109 184 32.692 251.993 - 1 14 Judy 19.249 122 158 65.885 561.199 -21 2 15 Cats 18.145 488 37 218.928 1.879.162 -55 3 16 Attraction 2 12.257 112 109 12.257 133.806 - 1 17 Underwater 11.470 88 130 11.470 101.414 - 1 18 The Peanut Butter Falcon 10.229 97 105 89.086 687.606 -32 4 19 Parasite 8.657 96 90 406.448 3.525.835 +7 13 20 Joker 8.129 168 48 4.076.245 37.745.570 -43 14 Well, holidays are over … steep drops, epecially for family fare and Star Wars 9 (which will find it difficult to reach the 5,5mil). The more impressinve is Knives Out with a fine hold. Among openers, domestic girl film Vier zauberhafte Schwestern did what was expected; The Grudge had an ok PTA; but basically the slot was nearly unoccupied. By the way, in Austria, Star Wars 9 was only #3 last weekend behind Jumanji2 and Knives Out. Next weekend: Three big openers: 1917 comes with good reviews but the theme is not very attractive, let's see if it can reach the Top5. A bigger opening is possible for Bad Boys 3 though the franchise is near forgotten; something like a 150-200k OW should be possible for any good popcorn actioner - maybe even a new #1? Also a contender is domestic music film Lindenberg!; the performer is still well-liked and if his fans can be bothered to watch him on the big screen, a >150k opening seems possible. Also, it will be interesting to watch if Knives Out can beat SW9 next weekend!

Interesting characters, and Miyazakis deep love for everything flying, make for an engrossing mix. What starts as a fun, character-driven romp gets pretty serious and big towards the end. 9/10, A

I was sure Jumanji2 and Frozen2 would be battling for #2, didn't expect that kind of hold from Knives Out - definitely a good sign!

btw, Austria's 2019 numbers are now final and even though quartals 3 and 4 were good, that wasn't able to save the year ... it's been the 2nd worst in recent times, only "beaten" by the dismal 2018 numbers.

estimate 150k, so a bit down but one can't complain much; it's the first after-holidays-weekend and it's milked the market for all it's worth already

Final estimates from insidekino.de have a 59% drop for SW9 so that's not so good ... Jumanji2 now in front of Frozen2

I don't think that's very optimistic, it seems to generate very good WOM and next week's competition isn't too stiff (1917 and BadBoys3); atm I'd say 1.1mil sounds lika a sensible goal, 1.25mil would be optimistic.

Jumanji2 dropping harder than Frozen2 - hadn't seen that coming. Knives Out on#2, very good, excellent drop. SW9, expected hard drop but still in the "ok" range

we saw Knives Out this evening, well attended for a Thursday show and audience liked it, should have a fine hold and I see no problems getting to >1mil in Germany

8/10, A- Fun movie, a real classic and classy murder mystery maeandering between Agatha Christie and Columbo - we had a great time! In fact, everybody in the audience seemed to like it.