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Ice Age has always been a phenomenon in Germany, probably because of the good dubbing choices, but Minions was really the surprise, I mean the movie wasn't even that good.

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 High Society 124.559 418 298 151.897 1.275.247 - 1 2 Bullyparade 104.598 698 150 1.653.262 13.348.404 -41 5 3 The Circle 76.387 332 230 234.193 1.935.238 -24 2 4 Logan Lucky 70.308 358 196 100.723 776.648 - 1 5 mother! 69.895 350 200 69.895 646.238 - 1 6 American Made 64.764 490 132 234.029 1.967.384 -42 2 7 Annabelle 2 61.647 468 132 512.681 4.574.164 -32 4 8 Happy Family 47.214 622 76 319.365 2.290.841 -30 4 9 Die Pfefferkörner und der Fluch … 40.819 491 83 113.165 735.866 -27 2 10 Despicable Me 3 35.346 513 69 4.458.906 735.866 -41 11 11 The Hitman's Bodyguard 33.586 490 69 247.262 2.124.254 -44 3 12 Grießnockerlaffäre 32.904 398 83 747.536 5.873.648 -25 7 13 Ostwind 3 23.323 530 44 1.019.303 6.835.903 -38 8 14 Emoji 23.321 462 50 606.670 4.372.241 -37 7 15 Jugend ohne Gott 22.076 325 68 156.598 1.229.686 -39 3 16 Bigfoot Junior 17.897 427 42 232.584 1.644.806 -39 5 17 Tulip Fever 15.543 251 62 154.049 1.254.946 -37 4 18 Atomic Blonde 10.674 249 43 267.089 2.208.856 -65 4 19 Weit. Die Geschichte von einem Weg … 10.273 125 82 215.168 1.662.081 +8 15 20 Magical Mystery oder Die Rückkehr … 10.035 98 102 80.348 639.102 -42 3 Awful weekend, look at those PTAs … let's move on to Next weekend: A lot of new releases, two of which should dominate the boxoffice (no big feat at the moment, I know …) - The Lego Ninjago Movie and Kingsman 2. Not exactly blockbuster material (both will be lucky to get somewhere near 1mil total) but a 200k opening weekend is possible for both (frankly, I have no idea how popular the Ninjago brand is with kids, other than with the LEGO movie I can't see many grownups attending).

those Annabelle holds are really far out, both the first one and Annabelle 2 are much leggier than any other horror releases. Strange, maybe some different marketing?

2nd estimates look better across the board; still a boring weekend but at least the trend is pointing upwards!

First weekend estimates and we get a double lead for domestic comedies: #1: High Society - 140k admissions (including quite a few previews but should stay >110k) #2: Bullyparade - 100k #3: Circle - 90k (-10%, very nice) #4: Logan Lucky - 95k (also incl. previews) #5: mother! - 75k, not bad #6: American Made - 70k (-37%) Rather weak overall weekend but not a disaster.

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Bullyparade 176.695 718 246 1.511.327 12.216.075 -31 4 2 American Made 112.034 468 239 139.059 1.161.512 - 1 3 The Circle 100.393 298 337 124.055 1.013.509 - 1 4 Annabelle 2 90.956 429 212 429.774 3.843.363 -28 3 5 Happy Family 67.639 521 130 261.876 1.897.934 -16 3 6 The Hitman's Bodyguard 60.153 474 127 197.117 1.897.934 -39 2 7 Despicable Me 3 59.518 588 101 4.414.551 36.334.736 -18 10 8 Die Pfefferkörner und der Fluch … 55.662 414 134 62.928 418.667 - 1 9 Grießnockerlaffäre 43.988 271 162 700.373 5.508.276 -36 6 10 Ostwind 3 37.560 602 62 991.139 6.638.159 -23 7 11 Emoji 36.914 515 72 579.431 4.186.519 -19 6 12 Jugend ohne Gott 35.983 311 16 123.060 990.477 -35 2 13 Atomic Blonde 30.309 528 57 245.869 2.033.844 -45 3 14 Bigfoot Junior 29.159 536 54 210.508 1.500.194 -23 4 15 Tulip Fever 24.627 247 100 127.796 1.047.786 -24 3 16 Planet of the Apes 3 18.065 273 66 758.984 8.415.690 -42 6 17 Magical Mystery … 17.343 117 148 63.509 504.380 -24 2 18 Das Pubertier 12.862 312 41 863.131 6.682.700 -30 10 19 Valerian 10.425 175 60 1.037.117 11.790.963 -44 8 20 Ce qui nous lie 9.994 138 72 133.653 1.047.642 -30 5 Despite rainy weather, an overall depressing weekend. American Made had a disappointing PTA and will probably become the lowest grossing Cruise movie ever. Bullyparade crossed 1,5mil total - halfway to blockbuster status but at this point even 2mil seem like a stretch. The two positive news are that Despicable Me 3 still has some legs, and Grießnockerlaffäre is destroying the series' hitherto rather stable totals - cool! Next weekend: Three interesting releases - Aronofsky's mother! and Soderbergh's Logan Lucky will not make much of a splash (commercial-wise), but domestic comedy High Society should take #1, especially as it's direct competition for Bullyparade. Overall not a weekend for big numbers, once more …

will be close but not yet impossible

Both big openers have preview numbers included but should stay above 100k for the weekend even without, not that bad ... the three worst Tom Cruise releases in Germany each had about 500k admissions total so American Made (german title: Barry Seal) has a slight chance at not becoming the lowest one.

yep, as mentioned, it's not bad, just not very good either (looking back, 5th element counted >3mil admissions in germany back in its day). But it's been a horrible summer for the german boxoffice anyway.

Estimates tomorrow but American Made looks like an instant flop atm; I hadn't thought a Tom Cruise starrer could go that low ... In other news, August numbers for Austria are in and as in Germany, those were some ugly weeks for the boxoffice. Add the equally bad July and we're steering towards the worst 3rd quarter in history if there doesn't happen some kind of September miracle. Which I doubt.

Has crossed 1mil admissions in Germany; not very good but not bad either (many big releases don't make it that far, see http://www.insidekino.de/DJahr/D2017.htm ) In Austria, it's also above 100k admissions, similar result.

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Bullyparade 256.687 730 352 1.262.859 10.247.123 +1 3 2 Annabelle 2 125.637 380 331 304.803 2.747.572 -7 2 3 The Hitman's Bodyguard 99.381 444 224 107.292 947.246 - 1 4 Happy Family 80.075 490 163 178.788 1.294.481 +34 2 5 Despicable Me 3 72.728 659 110 4.335.856 35.764.238 +33 9 6 Grießnockerlaffäre 69.132 261 265 633.074 4.970.826 +78 5 7 Jugend ohne Gott 55.706 306 182 63.776 522.408 - 1 8 Atomic Blonde 55.228 531 104 196.148 1.614.647 -27 2 9 Ostwind 3 48.807 661 74 940.509 6.286.988 +27 6 10 Emoji 45.348 550 82 531.935 3.866.475 +25 5 11 Bigfoot Junior 37.850 557 68 172.994 1.249.208 +39 3 12 Tulip Fever 32.311 213 152 89.112 733.293 +9 2 13 Planet of the Apes 3 31.064 375 83 732.100 8.123.817 -21 5 14 Magical Mystery ,,, 22.825 108 211 36.157 283.659 - 1 15 The Dark Tower 20.234 368 55 345.457 2.945.694 -40 4 16 Valerian 18.544 242 77 1.021.408 11.613.306 -16 7 17 Das Pubertier 18.244 372 49 841.274 6.497.746 +10 9 18 Dunkirk 16.119 269 60 711.393 6.294.982 -26 6 19 Ce qui nous lie 14.199 137 104 116.906 918.092 +49 4 20 Baby Driver 10.518 211 50 400.094 3.294.225 -32 6 An ok weekend, just no big openers. Bullyparade and Valerian crossed 1mil total; Grießnockerlaffäre is now the most successful of the franchise (not a given for part 4). Ostwind 3 is also showing some legs and should reach the million. Next weekend: Cruise starrer American Made starts with little noise (haven't seen a single trailer for it); Watson starrer The Circle will not do much better, so I guess Bullyparade will stay on top for a 4th weekend but the openers should at least battle for #2. Also opening: My Cousin Rachel and french production Paris Pieds Nus.

Bullyparade came in a little lower but the other releases were mostly spot-on. In Austria we had the same Top3, also with nice increases.

Saturday updates: Lower for Bodyguard, Bullyparade - better hold for Annabelle2

First weekend estimates, and with rainy weather we'll see some good holds or even increases: #1: Bullyparade - 275k (+10%) #2: Annabelle 2 - 115k (-15%) #3: The Hitman's Bodyguard - 115k (including previews) #4: Happy Family - 80k (+35%) #5: DM3 - 70k (+30%)