IndustriousAngel

actuals probably Wednesday but it seems there were definitely 5 releases >100k: #1 Black Adam 200k #2 Rheingold 172k #3 Die Schule der magischen Tiere2 137k #4 Der Nachname 115k #5 Smile 110k seems like there was a strong Sunday - and let's not forget there's strong weekdays too, this week!

strong opening for Rheingold, maybe it can get even higher with actuals. Nice to see so many domestic releases in the charts!

First weekend estimates for Germany from insidekino.de: #1: Black Adam - 200k admissions (-25%, good) #2: SDdmT 2 - 140k (-27%) #3/4: opener Rheingold or Der Nachname with 115k each #5: Smile - about 100k, would be fantastic to have 5 releases >100k!

Germany's Top18 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Black Adam 268.354 596 450 294.200 2.924.593 - 1 2 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 191.313 823 232 1.524.882 11.182.851 -28 4 3 Smile 147.704 525 281 933.276 8.561.503 -40 4 4 Der Nachname 134.624 515 261 162.770 1.546.268 - 1 5 Halloween Ends 86.759 462 188 282.240 2.719.178 -47 2 6 Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile 70.271 550 128 83.166 627.353 - 1 7 Ticket to Paradise 58.583 594 99 1.036.813 9.592.035 -39 6 8 Triangle of Sadness 44.844 182 246 125.123 1.175.600 -9 2 9 Die Mucklas und wie sie zu Pettersson und Findus kamen 41.505 493 84 57.538 421.763 - 1 10 One Piece Film - Red 25.313 388 65 280.582 3.918.306 -89 2 11 Minions 2 19.015 390 49 4.072.457 34.716.144 -50 17 12 Mittagsstunde 16.297 237 69 215.144 1.939.917 -27 5 13 Don't Worry Darling 15.504 246 63 294.758 2.654.024 -50 5 14 Meine Chaosfee & Ich 14.584 420 35 57.918 416.704 -54 2 15 Where the Crawdads Sing 13.687 379 36 808.163 7.284.900 -44 10 16 Tausend Zeilen 13.175 340 39 225.577 2.063.794 -63 4 17 In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt 11.952 198 60 77.352 679.352 -36 3 18 Top Gun 2 9.727 190 51 3.662.477 37.108.990 -39 22 Fine weekend, the openers within expectations and sensible holds. Black Adam has a shot at 1mil total but with strong competition, probably not. Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 lost its lead but is on its way to a total well north of 2mil, super hold once more! Ticket to Paradise finally crossed 1mil, strong legs! Pretty similar results in Austria (Ticket is already at 170k here). Next weekend: No big openers, so holdovers should see nice drops, especially, of course, horror releases!

you have to remember that in Germany, Thursday is included in the weekend numbers. And those anime night events are mainly Wed+Thu. So, last weekend was inflated thanks to an extremely strong Thursday, that's not the case this weekend.

First estimates for Germany from insidekino.de: #1: Black Adam - 250k incl. previews #2: DSdmT 2 - 175k (-34%) #3/4: Smile - 140k (-43%); Nachname (150k, pretty similar to Vorname) #5: Halloween Ends - 75k (-54%, ouch)

Those 3,7mil admissions are really good but they do pale a bit compared to Austria's 590k - while you can't compare the markets with a straight 1:10, even the usual 1:9 would put Maverick at >5,3mil in Germany if it was as popular there as it is here. If 3,7mil for Germany are "amazing", I don't know what word you would apply to Austria's number As for Minions2 - Germany's now >4mil are a very good result, but in Austria, it's also still in release and is now very very close to 530k. Btw, "Guglhupfgeschwader", very successful in Germany as the one with most admissions in the franchise, is more than doubling Germany's result in Austria with now very close to 300k admissions.

Germany's Top18 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Schule der magischen Tiere 2 264.297 790 335 1.249.373 9.161.949 +5 3 2 Smile 245.197 498 492 728.511 6.646.442 +13 3 3 One Piece Film: Red 230.986 423 546 230.986 3.247.874 - 1 4 Halloween Ends 162.467 464 350 162.467 1.567.069 - 1 5 Ticket to Paradise 96.109 668 144 945.962 8.753.223 +1 5 6 Triangle of Sadness 49.027 135 363 58.308 535.187 - 1 7 Minions 2 38.112 543 70 4.040.648 34.472.026 +28 16 8 Tausend Zeilen 35.520 594 60 200.953 1.838.222 -20 3 9 Meine Chaosfee & Ich 31.613 418 76 34.892 251.961 - 1 10 Don't Worry Darling 31.186 353 88 268.410 2.417.603 -18 4 11 Where the Crawdads Sing 24.611 551 45 781.948 7.049.642 +2 9 12 DC League of Super-Pets 22.538 414 54 730.393 5.248.740 +46 12 13 Mittagsstunde 22.441 275 82 186.353 1.686.352 -6 4 14 In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt 18.669 210 89 55.564 488.118 -9 2 15 Top Gun 2 16.052 277 58 3.647.835 36.962.317 +13 21 16 Bullet Train 13.660 190 72 749.105 7.077.980 +4 11 17 The Woman King 12.342 286 43 53.968 457.291 -43 2 18 Die Känguru-Verschwörung 9.262 228 41 513.218 4.183.597 +5 8 What a weekend … close run for #1 and excellent openers and increases all over the chart! One Piece Film - Red showed the potential of anime releases - especially when you look at the ticket prices, fans are obviously ready to pay premium for such events! Halloween Ends had a super opening for this franchsie and still didn't make the Top3, because holdovers Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 and surprise hit Smile both had an increase! Longrunners Minions 2 (crossed 4mil this week) and Top Gun Maverick both showed that their runs are not over yet. Arthouse release Triangle of Sadness had a nice PTA. In Austria, also an excellent weekend, with both Horror releases, Ticket and Triangle doing even better, while the One Piece Film didn't score like in Germany (still a good performance). Next weekend: The wide openers will be Black Adam (slow presales here) and Der Nachname (comedy sequels are difficult to predict but might miss the mark by a lot as we've seen with the 2nd Känguru movie). Let's see if one of these can make the Top3, and how well the horror holdovers perform as we're getting near halloween! Smile's performance has been nothing but astonishing so far …

final weekend estimates a bit lower for many releases but Ticket went up to 97,5k ... only a little bit more and we would see 5 releases >100k admissions!

first weekend estimates from insidekino.de are indeed fantastic: #1: One Piece Film - Red - 275k admissions incl. Wed #2: Smile - 250k (another increase - are you kidding me?!) #3: DSdmT2 - 225k (also wow) #4: Halloween Ends - 150k - good opening #5: Ticket to Paradise - 80k

The One Piece movie is playing much better than Halloween here ... ok, Halloween got nearly twice as many theaters but that might become pretty close among those openers!

Germany's Top16 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 250.893 774 324 901.016 6.614.339 -44 2 2 Smile 217.402 374 581 388.759 3.532.054 +100 2 3 Ticket to Paradise 95.627 680 141 809.137 7.493.172 -39 4 4 Avatar 53.725 395 136 357.841 4.251.875 -50 3 5 Tausend Zeilen 44.166 571 77 149.579 1.383.755 -41 2 6 Don't Worry Darling 38.127 393 97 220.977 1.999.835 -36 3 7 Minions 2 29.672 572 52 3.990.216 34.088.164 -42 15 8 Where the Crawdads Sing 24.212 628 39 741.095 6.683.476 -43 8 9 Mittagsstunde 23.948 239 100 149.880 1.356.929 -39 3 10 The Woman King 21.676 282 77 33.169 270.763 - 1 11 In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt 20.458 201 102 24.299 213.871 - 1 12 DC League of Super-Pets 15.427 417 37 701.785 5.041.916 -41 11 13 Top Gun 2 14.147 299 47 3.626.699 36.747.952 -48 20 14 Bullet Train 13.113 198 66 731.172 6.908.220 -41 10 15 Chase 9.603 249 39 136.683 1.129.943 -50 4 16 Orphan 2 9.429 193 49 189.624 1.474.303 -45 5 While the openers where underwhelming (as expected), holds were fine or even stunning. That increase for Smile is unheard of among horror releases … in fact, that would be fantastic even for a comedy! Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 dropped as expected but this 2nd weekend is still about as high as the OW of part 1. And Ticket to Paradise is on a path to well over a million total, fine run! In Austria, Smile's increase was even bigger, otherwise pretty similar numbers. Next weekend: Halloween Ends is the biggest opener. While weekends around halloween are usually capable of carrying two horror releases, the surprisingly strong Smile might bite deeply into Halloween's audiences … we might see horror on #1 and #2 but atrm my bet for #1 would be Smile! Concerning might; there's another release with hit potential: One Piece Film - Red, and at least at my theater, those presales look stronger than Halloween's … so overall, we can expect good weekdays and a strong weekend! And we'll celebrate 4mil total for the Minions!

actuals tomorrow but final weekend numbers were even better than the latest estimates. Smile's WOM must be insane ... in Austria, it increased from a 11k OW to nearly 30k this weekend!

final weekend estimates went up - by a lot! DSdmT now estimated at 235k, Smile 200k - just wow.

weather is better this weekend and Monday a normal workday, so steep drops were to be expected. Smile is doing great, surprise "hit"!

Germany's Top18 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 444.745 741 600 451.733 3.328.762 - 1 2 Ticket to Paradise 156.312 690 227 687.616 6.355.905 +8 3 3 Smile 108.735 314 346 115.944 1.042.453 - 1 4 Avatar 108.514 386 281 254.674 3.029.541 -2 2 5 Tausend Zeilen 75.176 554 136 77.019 741.655 - 1 6 Don't Worry Darling 60.016 362 166 157.443 14.26.763 -12 2 7 Minions 2 51.475 587 88 3.933.750 33.656.145 -7 14 8 Where the Crawdads Sing 42.313 657 64 693.971 6.257.453 -7 7 9 Mittagsstunde 39.023 190 205 108.757 963.888 +10 2 10 Top Gun 2 27.337 309 88 3.604.629 36.526.187 +9 19 11 DC League of Super-Pets 26.312 419 63 673.285 4.834.566 -13 10 12 Bullet Train 22.311 215 104 711.595 6.721.577 -3 9 13 Chase 19.301 338 57 122.432 1.000.915 -19 3 14 Guglhupfgeschwader 19.003 269 71 1.315.215 11.675.821 -9 9 15 Känguru 2 17.830 365 49 483.522 3.937.819 -30 6 16 Orphan 2 17.164 228 75 175.892 1.350.964 -29 4 17 After Ever Happy 12.606 273 46 611.005 5.274.458 -38 6 18 Bibi & Tina 11.242 363 31 689.239 4.895.836 -39 11 Even considering that the Monday holiday made this a "long" weekend, those are really excellent numbers. Not only the opening of Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2, but also many holds … Ticket to Paradise went up, seems to have excellent WOM! Minions 2 had an astonishing hold against this opening … Austria's weekend was very similar, with Ticket doing even better here. Next weekend: Domestic drama In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt and The Woman King are the "big" openers but both only in limited release, so excellent conditions for holdovers! Weather should be better so probably steep drops but that's to be expected anyway after the long weekend.

that's a really massive start for DSdmT2 ... considering that it's only got afternoon shows, the per-show average must be in blockbuster regions. 2mil total easily doable and 2,5mil would be my bet atm, extremely good for a domestic kiddie movie! (for any domestic movie, really ...)

Final weekend estimates from insidekino.de now have 360-425k for SdmT2, that's an excellent number, a big increase from the first one. While increases like this are quite common for popular teenie "franchises", this one's aimed at younger children, meaning 95% of the tickets are bought by the parents, which usually leads to a much lower rush factor. 2mil total are a real possibility after such an opening. Also in final estimtes: Avatar around 100k so we might get 4 releases >100k (I think Smile's previews were <10k?).

Early weekend estimates from insidekino.de, and there's a good weekend coming it seems; good openers AND good holds! #1: Schule der magischen Tiere 2 - 250-400k admissions (opening higher than #1 which was to be expected) #2: Ticket to Paradise - 150k (+4%, super) #3: Smile - 110k incl previews (might still be 6-digit for Thu-Sun) #4: Avatar - 85k (-24%) #5: Tausend Zeilen - 80k, a bit disappointing but I didn't see much potential for this journalism drama; the real life story behind it wasn't that big or popular - as a comparison, the movie Schtonk made it to >2mil total in 1992 but that was about the infamous forged "Hitler diaries", an extremely popular scandal in its time.

In Austria, Minions could reach 550k total from a 56k OW (but OW in Austria is 3day, compared to Germany's 4day)

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Ticket to Paradise 144.317 651 222 437.591 4.074.618 -24 2 2 Avatar 111.332 365 305 112.700 1.344.565 - 1 3 Don't Worry Darling 69.093 354 195 70.043 642.583 - 1 4 Minions 2 55.547 625 89 3.873.275 33.200.199 -26 13 5 Where the Crawdads Sing 45.706 682 67 625.461 5.638.351 -26 6 6 Mittagsstunde 35.322 169 209 43.304 379.595 - 1 7 DC League of Super-Pets 30.237 467 65 643.687 4.621.552 -28 9 8 Känguru 2 25.579 516 50 458.011 3.729.246 -41 5 9 Top Gun 2 24.982 358 70 3.568.409 36.171.372 -32 18 10 Orphan 2 24.012 252 95 152.248 1.140.645 -27 3 11 Chase 23.816 383 62 96.628 769.238 -35 2 12 Bullet Train 23.120 267 87 682.549 6.447.530 -26 8 13 Guglhupfgeschwader 20.794 347 60 1.288.211 11.439.925 -41 8 14 After Ever Happy 20.467 441 46 591.228 5.100.044 -46 5 15 Bibi & Tina 18.343 440 42 676.174 4.803.756 -34 10 16 Mein Lotta-Leben 16.010 476 34 203.231 1.377.304 -32 6 17 Jeepers Creepers Reborn 14.533 225 65 44.894 403.784 -42 2 18 Lieber Kurt 13.477 402 34 65.946 567.224 -50 2 19 Freibad 10.814 273 40 132.960 1.107.979 -42 4 20 Alle für Ella 10.207 480 21 78.243 519.555 -38 3 The good news this weekend were the good hold for Ticket to Paradise, and the fact that all releases on the chart were>10k admissions. Good opening for local drama Mittagsstunde which managed a fine PTA! However, with weather being very movie-friendly atm, the overall numbers are still disappointing, no blockbuster in sight. In Austria, similar results but most releases a bit higher (Ticket to Paradise is already well past 60k here). Next weekend: Finally some bigger openers again: A new horror release with Smile, domestic journalism drama Tausend Zeilen, and a new #1 with the Die Schule der magischen Tiere 2 - a domestic children's book adaption; the first one did really well and a result between 1,5 and 2mil total seems realistic.

As an aside, Guglhupfgeschwader, the 8th installment in the series of Rita Falk crime comedy adaptions, is now the most succesful one with its 1,26mil admissions, overtaking Leberkäsjunkie (6th in the series, 1,24mil total) with still something in the tank! While reviews were a bit mixed and the final multiplier will be lower, the franchise is still gaining new audiences it seems - congratulations!

Germany's Top20 last weekend: title admissions th. PTA total adm. total € drop week 1 Ticket to Paradise 189.359 603 314 227.334 2.134.940 - 1 2 Minions 2 75.281 627 120 3.806.277 32.704.502 -49 12 3 Where the Crawdads Sing 61.358 667 92 550.574 4.960.010 -38 5 4 Känguru 2 42.615 572 75 421.482 3.435.463 -57 4 5 DC League of Super-Pets 41.777 484 86 608.699 4.373.522 -37 8 6 After Ever Happy 38.171 491 78 558.317 4.812.111 -64 4 7 Top Gun 2 36.661 409 90 3.532.744 35.823.485 -60 16 8 Last Seen Alive (Chase) 36.461 362 101 64.046 479.795 - 1 9 Guglhupfgeschwader 35.128 403 87 1.257.041 11.169.899 -51 7 10 Orphan 2 32.543 230 141 120.119 857.977 -52 2 11 Bullet Train 31.219 305 102 651.422 6.161.124 -56 7 12 Bibi & Tina 27.856 481 58 652.470 4.648.622 -39 9 13 Lieber Kurt 26.742 415 64 42.151 350.870 - 1 14 Jeepers Creepers Reborn 24.926 222 112 24.926 226.959 - 1 15 Mein Lotta-Leben 23.689 489 48 184.687 1.252.700 -38 5 16 Freibad 18.523 278 67 109.130 901.938 -46 3 17 Alle für Ella 16.486 494 33 65.011 423.439 -60 2 18 Moonage Daydream 16.314 253 64 16.425 184.498 - 1 19 Der junge Häuptling Winnetou 13.635 375 36 170.670 1.172.886 -57 6 20 Qu'est-ce qu'on … 3 12.991 231 56 675.164 5.946.431 -60 9 After last week' increases, drops were bound to be steep but thanks to the surprisingly strong opening weekend of Ticket to Paradise, overall still a good weekend with a lot of releases >10k! These kind of movies tend to be leggy so it wouldn't surprise me if Ticket could reach 1mil in the end. In Austria, similar results but the openers were bigger - Ticket >30k! Next weekend: The "biggest" real opener will probably be Don't Worry Darling, but Avatar gets a re-release starting Thursday which seems to sell pretty good, at least it's selling much better than the real opener at my theater!

I think it had a lot of "sneaks" which is included here.

Ticket to Paradise seems indeed to become #1 for the weekend, surprisingly strong opening! Otherwise, steep drops after the event-inflated numbers last weekend; Crawdads still pretty good though, excellent WOM makes for a very leggy run!