IndustriousAngel

With weather more rainy than snowy (and windy, too), it's really a movie weekend, especially afternoons ... ??? and PiB2 are having a very strong day. Concerned about Otto, though, at my cinema it's selling less seats than Banshees - obiously I was wrong about there being a demand ...

In Austria even better, it should be close to 250k total after this weekend, and with school holidays starting today there's even a chance at 300k (especially since ??? isn't as popular here as it is in Germany)

early weekend estimates from insidekino.de: #1: A2 - 300k (-24%, usually actuals are higher than estimates) #2: ??? - 200k (-21%, fine) #3: PiB2 - 125k (-2%, seriously?) Plane and Otto on #4 and #5, while I didn't expect much from Plane, Otts's number are really disappointing.

wow, that's one strong opening ...

ah, good to know - comes with my warmest recommendations, I even wrote a review on imdb https://www.imdb.com/review/rw8845108 might be a bit difficult to understand in some places when you're not used to the dialect, but most of the movie should be easy to grasp for Germans.

btw, just saw "Der Fuchs", very strong movie imho (better than, say, last years awards contender "Corsage") and no wonder it's holding up so well; theater was pretty full for a weekday early evening. Don't know if it gets a release in Germany, though.

well, it's already >1mil and is having pretty the same drops as Germany, so 1,15-1,2mil would seem like the goal

super run (even better than in Germany) and yet, it won't reach Titanic's admissions (nearly 1,4mil) ... the most successful release in recent times was (back in 2001) Schuh des Manitu with nearly 2,1mil admissions. But it will top the Lord of the Rings movies; Fellowship was the most successful one, that had 1,07mil admissions in the end.

Germany's Top16 last weekend: title admisisons th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Avatar 2 393.402 644 611 8.607.712 116.658.024 -23 7 2 Die drei ??? - Erbe des Drachen 253.604 634 400 330.279 2.566.217 - 1 3 Puss in Boots 2 127.599 691 185 1.527.368 12.851.377 -12 6 4 Caveman 61.049 538 113 80.755 743.869 - 1 5 M3GAN 60.585 463 131 337.364 3.281.450 -29 3 6 Shotgun Wedding 45.277 472 96 135.366 1.246.164 -25 2 7 Babylon 42.583 356 120 118.444 1.318.593 -21 2 8 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz 40.359 648 62 812.391 5.884.856 +0 8 9 The Banshees of Inisherin 32.990 163 202 263.967 2.466.172 -14 4 10 Operation Fortune 32.678 423 77 356.442 3.373.754 -29 4 11 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 28.296 355 80 2.626.629 19.218.537 +5 18 12 Pathaan 27.979 93 301 36.391 536.755 - 1 13 Oskars Kleid 20.311 483 42 515.903 4.654.268 -37 6 - Billie Eilish: Live at O2 18.752 159 118 18.752 273.867 - 1 14 Was man von hier aus sehen kann 15.445 210 74 197.985 1.765.979 -29 5 15 Close 14.065 86 164 17.662 164.915 - 1 16 I Wanna Dance With Somebody 11.006 294 37 306.651 3.096.199 -36 6 Nice overall weekend - Avatar 2 once more with a good hold, and a surprisingly big OW for Die drei ???, while other family releases stood their ground. Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 even had an increase, that movie seems unsinkable! The only really bad number came from domestic comedy Caveman which didn't even meet the already low expectations. In Austria, Die drei ??? came in lower (#3 behind Puss in Boots) and domestic biopic Der Fuchs had once more >10k admissions on #4, surprisingly good hold once more given the story; Caveman flopped even worse than in Germany. Avatar 2 won the weekend with numbers close to Germany and is now at >1mil admissions total, the first release to reach the "Diamond Ticket" since - drumroll - the first Avatar! Next weekend: No really big releases once more but A Man Called Otto might see some success, thanks not only to Tom Hanks but also the target demo which seems a bit neglected, looking at this week's chart - such is clearly not the case for actioner Plane, this seems like an instant flop.

Sunday updates, a bit higher for most releases, lower for Puss (still good hold) - 380k admissions for Avatar2 should be the 9th biggest 7th weekend ever.

Saturday updated estimates from insidekino.de, no changes

if estimates hold, that's excellent for the ???-Adaption ... I was hoping for something like a 150-200k max opening; with the numbers we're seeing now 1mil total (and a sequel) is easily possible. And also excellent numbers from Puss-in-Boots, beautiful hold once more against a strong opener.

that must be an absolutely crazy per-show-average, wow!

come on, it's not that bad there were quite a few German movies I enjoyed through the last years!

Germany's Top14 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Avatar 2 508.247 670 759 8.110.776 109.693.703 -31 6 2 Puss in Boots 2 144.427 673 215 1.377.841 11.607.758 -22 5 3 M3GAN 85.213 444 192 260.685 2.536.991 -38 2 4 Shotgun Wedding 60.166 452 133 76.802 695.697 - 1 5 Babylon 54.010 350 154 58.864 654.933 - 1 6 Operation Fortune 45.925 510 90 314.151 2.972.130 -45 3 7 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz 40.293 693 58 767.916 5.577.989 -36 7 8 The Banshees of Inisherin 38.463 150 256 215.533 2.015.133 -36 3 9 Oskars Kleid 32.116 575 56 480.601 4.354.943 -45 5 10 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 27.003 362 75 2.595.224 18.986.609 -22 17 11 Was man von hier aus sehen kann 21.674 212 102 171.879 1.539.534 -29 4 12 I Wanna Dance with Somebody 17.304 382 45 287.355 2.908.564 -46 5 13 Maria rêve 10.254 87 118 12.178 106.422 - 1 14 Le Otto Montagne 8.984 94 96 24.631 242.361 -11 2 An ok weekend, but only two releases >100k … Avatar 2 continuing ist run to >10mil, Banshees of Inisherin with a fine PTA once more and the two bigger openers a bit behind expectations. Puss in Boots 2 is showing a lot of staying power! And, off the chart, domestic Biopic Rheingold has finally crossed 1mil. In Austria, similar results (a bit better once more for most releases) with an additional domestic releases on #3, Der Fuchs had an excellent hold from OW (nearly flat), nice! So, three releases >10k. Avatar 2 is already >900k admissions here. Next weekend: Two medium-sized domestic openers: one more children's book adaption, Die drei ??? - Erbe des Drachens and comedy Caveman. In the US, the series is called The Three Investigators, it's been published in German since 1968 - so running for 55 years now, which means real popular I guess, but it's unsure how this will translate to BO success - anything above 750k total would be fine and warrant a sequel I'd say. Caveman - adapted once more from a popular play - should have the bigger OW but will probably fade faster.

no big changes in latest estimates from indidekino.de, only Shotgun Wedding is getting a bit stronger with each day.

Babylon and Shotgun Wedding both opening around 60k ... as mentioned, presales didn't look good but i was hoping for something much closer to 6 digits for both of them. Puss in Boots 2 is really showing a lot of power after the lukewarm OW! And Avatar 2 now in "normal" mode ... I was surprised by the good holds until now since it seemed to me it had much less rewatch potential than the first one. None of the people I know has plans to see it a 2nd time in theaters (and my wife watched the first one 8x ...), the general consensus seems to be that it's quite spectacular but the story not as involving and gripping as the first one's.

Germany's Top17 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Avatar 2 741.519 697 1.064 7.451.510 100.498.387 -35 5 2 Puss in Boots 2 184.464 648 285 1.207.900 10.174.061 -28 4 3 M3GAN 138.177 432 320 148.509 1.437.451 - 1 4 Operation Fortune 83.172 502 166 250.761 2.377.952 -34 2 5 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz 62.981 707 89 722.463 5.249.074 -36 6 6 The Banshees of Inisherin 59.774 141 424 154.566 1.452.714 -6 2 7 Oskars Kleid 58.845 608 97 426.990 3.878.247 -32 4 8 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 34.546 371 93 2.565.805 18.765.701 -37 16 9 I Wanna Dance with Somebody 32.314 420 77 257.761 2.612.214 -34 4 10 Was man von hier aus sehen kann 30.447 180 169 137.638 1.231.968 -18 3 11 Die Biene Maja - Das geheime Königreich 18.650 46 405 241.099 1.589.376 + 37 12 FCK 2020 - Zweieinhalb Jahre mit Scooter 13.771 243 57 18.753 188.314 - 1 13 Holy Spider 13.543 98 138 16.455 145.922 - 1 14 Triangle of Sadness 10.432 115 91 445.273 4.278.533 -24 14 - MET: Fedora 10.090 192 53 10.090 304.233 1 15 Le Otte Montagne 10.059 77 131 10.903 108.300 - 1 16 Einfach mal was Schönes 9.381 216 43 621.262 5.740.828 -43 9 17 Black Panther 2 9.172 165 56 1.508.530 17.102.727 -52 10 Wow, really nice weekend once more with fine drops, now that holidays are over. Avatar 2 crossed 7mil admissions (and 100mil €) with ease and I'd say 10mil are pretty safe and 11mil total totally possible. Also beautiful drop for Puss in Boots 2, and excellent opening for M3gan (given that evening screens are rare); dito Operation Fortune is doing fine, weekend 2 about as big as The Gentlemen's OW. Further down the chart, Black Panther 2 has finally crossed 1,5mil total, ok result but not as high as hoped for. In Austria, similar results (the Top 3 even a lot better) with a domestic #4; arthouse biopic Der Fuchs managed about 15k admissions - that's a pretty astonishing number. Next weekend: Two interesting releases, Shotgun Wedding and Babylon - at least one of them could make the Top3 though presales don't look too promising for both (Babylon a bit better atm but the other one has more walk-in potential I guess).

yep, atm I'd say 1,3mil total are the ambitious goal for Avatar2 in Austria, and 11mil in Germany (10mil would mean much worse holds than we've seen ... in fact, every weekend, it did a little or a lot better than estimates!

about 70k last weekend (3day), actuals are 2 weeks later in Austria

with those numbers, 1mil admissions in Austria are a lock (already at 900k) and 10mil in Germany very hard to miss.

740k for the weekend according to Mark_G; that's the 3rd best 5th weekend ever - and PiB2 and M3gan good, too! (And, once more, Austrian numbers were even better)

wow, that's an astonishing hold! (also excellent for PiB, obviously)

Saturday update from insidekino.de; no changes for A2 but M3gan lower and Puss higher than first estimates

wow, that's quite good for M3gan - it's starting without any competition but I was fearing a shortness of screens. And extremely good for Avatar3 of course, maybe 700k can indeed happen!