BO Germany/Austria: Dune 2 fine 2nd weekend

[lab276]

3rd Trend:Ice Age: 1.2mTASM: 225kFYE: 170kSWATH: 65kMIB3: 50k

[lab276]

Apparently, IA4 is one of only five movies to open with more than 1m tickets and then increase on their second weekends, the others being; FOTR, IA3, Titanic and ROTK.

[Rudolf]

Apparently, IA4 is one of only five movies to open with more than 1m tickets and then increase on their second weekends, the others being; FOTR, IA3, Titanic and ROTK.

3 of them sequels

[lab276]

[IndustriousAngel]

Fantastic weekend, nearly everything had an increase from last week! And look at "Intouchables", +69% and back on place 9!

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany + Austria Top 12 July 13-15

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Gross	Week
1	1	Ice Age 4	Fox	$ 14.463.520	+13,2	37.483.071	2
2	2	Amazing Spiderman	Sony	$ 3.240.432	+1,5	15.472.926	3
3	N	Five Year Engagement	UPI	$ 1.689.305	-	2.080.727	1
4	3	SnowWhite&H	UPI	$ 714.181	+3,2	15.950.976	7
5	4	Men in Black 3	Sony	$ 682.093	+9,2	28.184.656	8
6	5	Chernobyl Diaries	WB	$ 452.150	+6,7	2.355.162	4
7	N	Bis zum Horizont dann links	NeueVisionen	$ 334.989	-	397.844	2
8	8	Hanni und Nanni 2	UPI	$ 234.018	+49,5	5.891.573	9
9	11	Intouchables	Senator	$ 213.854	+63,9	82.287.251	28
10	N	The Raid	Koch	$ 177.810	-	227.008	1
11	13	The Way	Koch/Filmladen	$ 169.955	+50,2	850.875	4
12	7	2 Days in New York	Senator/Const.	$ 161.472	-4,4	488.575	2

Good weekend overall. Side fact: 5YearEngagement opened on nr.2 in Austria. "Snow White" and "Chernobyl Diaries" show better legs than expected, Intouchables (in its 28th week) and "The Raid" managed to crack the Top 10. And the Ice Age franchise is simply a monster; as Rudolf mentioned much of the success is thanks to a very popular set of german voice actors.

This week, "The Lorax" is the only big opener. With Ice Age dominating the kiddie-business I would be surprised if it will get more than 200k admissions which might just be enough for nr.2

[lab276]

[lab276]

Intouchables increased again! It's unstoppable.

[Rudolf]

only 12k admissions to top25 since 1968

[lab276]

only 12k admissions to top25 since 1968

It did more than twice that this weekend alone. I didn't think it had a chance at beating Finding Nemo and it's still an outside chance, but if continues like this, it'll do it.

[pinocchio]

I just wrote nonsense...

Edited July 24, 2012 by pinocchio

[IndustriousAngel]

Really intouchable - eh, incroyable :)IA4 looked a lot better on Friday but Sunday was extremely bad for nearly everything (except Intouchables and 5YE which are not weekend-films). The Lorax was also lower than I expected, 200k would have been good, 160k ok but 120k is really on the lowest end of expectations. Dr. Seuss is nearly unknown here, but Horton did better and with the environmental message the Lorax should definitely have done better. I guess IA4 was too much direct competition.

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany + Austria Top 13 July 20-22

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Gross	Week
1	1	Ice Age 4	Fox	$ 7.998.335	-44,7	50.090.100	3
2	2	Amazing Spiderman	Sony	$ 1.783.606	-45,0	18.403.124	4
3	N	The Lorax	UPI	$ 1.487.377	-	1.527.922	1
4	3	Five Year Engagement	UPI	$ 1.207.877	-28,5	3.922.887	2
5	4	SnowWhite&H	UPI	$ 471.909	-33,9	16.700.790	8
6	5	Men in Black 3	Sony	$ 425.905	-37,6	28.862.551	9
7	6	Chernobyl Diaries	WB	$ 315.361	-30,1	2.805.648	5
8	9	Intouchables	Senator	$ 224.363	+4,9	82.516.421	29
9	7	Bis zum Horizont	NeueVisione	$ 206.928	-38,2	760.568	3
10	11	The Way	Koch/Filmladen	$ 132.517	-22,0	1.065.650	5
11	8	Hanni und Nanni 2	UPI	$ 126.805	-45,8	6.084.832	10
12	N	L'amour dure trois ans	Prokino/Poly	$ 124.891	-	137.883	1
13	10	The Raid	Koch	$ 115.861	-34,8	417.670	2

Mediocre weekend overall. Interesting how long "Chernobyl Diaries" manages to hang in there, fantastic legs for a horror film. The Lorax opened to the lowest end of expectations - in Austria a bit better, yet no big numbers.

Today "The Dark Knight Rises" has it's first full day (many theaters had triple Batman shows yesterday); presales look promising but I noticed TDKR got less showings than TASM or IA4 during their respective openings; I don't follow the discussion about the US opening too closely but it seems as if the longer running time should at least be considered as an obstacle (box-office-wise that is).

[Olive]

insidekino predicts 1.2M admissions OW for TDKR.

[IndustriousAngel]

Might do, opening day was very strong so I guess it depends on two factors: How much demand was burned during the opening days - and weather, as always . The german market really depends on lousy weather; though in the case of Blockbusters nice weather often only means admissions are "postponed" - so, weak weekend --> better legs.

[lab276]

If it sells 1.2m over the weekend, how much would it be for the full week?

[IndustriousAngel]

I don't belive in 1.2mil ... 1.0 would be excellent and would push it somewhere north of 1.5mil. As I said, it doesn't get that many shows since IA4 is still going strong and they also need some screens for TASM, 5YE and Lorax. The nearly 3 hours are an obstacle.

[Olive]

1.0M is quite good.

[pinocchio]

1.2 mio would be the cumulative number. It more or less opened in Germany on wednesney.

[keysersoze123]

Do we have any OD/thursday numbers from Germany. I thought they track BO very closely.