BO Germany/Austria: Dune first 2024 blockbuster (3mil admissions)

[Giesi]

45 minutes ago, IndustriousAngel said:

Actually, I thought TLJ rather weak ... my ladyfriend compared it to Hobbit3. My son wasn't convinced either.

I respect your opinion, you‘re one of the most reliable people around here, but I strongly disagree. It was my 2nd favorite after BR 2049 this year. Different people like different things and that‘s completely fine. A lot of people might enjoy the FJG movies, I do not, but life goes on. Although I must admit it is hard sometimes to accept your first choice to finish second.

[IndustriousAngel]

Maybe I'm a little jaded ... 2017 has been a pretty poor year so far, I saw only 2 movies which were an A for me (and both only A- with 8/10 - those were Valerian and Logan). And "rather weak" is "weak for a Star Wars movie"; I still rated it 7/10, so B+, same as Thor3, Baby Driver, Kingsman2, Alien:Covenant, Victoria&Abdul, BladeRunner2049, AtomicBlonde, or, among local releases, Grießnockerlaffäre and Bullyparade (I know, beat me senseless, I don't need to rewatch it anytime soon but I was thoroughly entertained for the time it played).

[Elessar]

Much prefer Hobbit 3 over TLJ, which, yes, was quite a borefest...

 

... however, i'll join those lamenting how a movie like FJG3 gets to be number 1. Terrible moviegoing culture...

 

*I know, it reeks of "i'm better than you", but, but, FJG3? Really?!?!?!

Edited January 14, 2018 by Elessar

[Brainbug]

23 minutes ago, Elessar said:

Much prefer Hobbit 3 over TLJ, which, yes, was quite a borefest...

 

... however, i'll join those lamenting how a movie like FJG3 gets to be number 1. Terrible moviegoing culture...

 

*I know, it reeks of "i'm better than you", but, but, FJG3? Really?!?!?!

 

While i love TLJ and despise Hobbit 3, i totally agree on FJG3 beeing this big moneymaker is just a bad sign for german filmtaste. Maybe we all deserve these endless bad comedys and bad dramas...the only german movie that i liked this decade (!) was Victoria....

[IndustriousAngel]

Victoria got 9/10 from me, fantastic piece of filmmaking, I even wrote am imdb review! (AND really unexpected from Germany, I have to add ...) ... some other recent German releases I really liked:

Sein letztes Rennen

Honig im Kopf

Das Zimmermädchen Lynn

Wild

 

and from Austria: Die Hölle (that's an 8/10 from 2017 I forgot)

[George Parr]

I don't see a problem with FjG3 being this successful. The box office needs every success it can get, and I much prefer a local movie to be in that range than having comic book movies dominate the top 10. While I haven't seen the last one, I actually found the first FjG to be quite charming. Not nearly as flat as most other German comedies.

 

It's not like Germany has a unique taste in that regard. Pretty much every nation has its guilty pleasures that are hardly of high quality.

[Aristis]

We also hear that The Commuter is working overseas: The pic earned $2.3M in its opening weekend in Germany for a No. 2 spot, 43% ahead of Unknown, and counting 226M admissions. Friday admissions of 44M were above Last Jedi for the day, as well as Neeson’s Unknown ($40M), and 84% ahead of Neeson’s Run All Night and 44% above A Walk Among the Tombstones.

 

Wow, it seems Germans love Liam Neeson - Friday alone makes it the biggest movie ever at the German BO (TP is a bit low though, only $2,3M from 226M amissions... )

[George Parr]

11 minutes ago, Aristis said:

We also hear that The Commuter is working overseas: The pic earned $2.3M in its opening weekend in Germany for a No. 2 spot, 43% ahead of Unknown, and counting 226M admissions. Friday admissions of 44M were above Last Jedi for the day, as well as Neeson’s Unknown ($40M), and 84% ahead of Neeson’s Run All Night and 44% above A Walk Among the Tombstones.

 

Wow, it seems Germans love Liam Neeson - Friday alone makes it the biggest movie ever at the German BO (TP is a bit low though, only $2,3M from 226M amissions... )

Finally theaters have realized that it takes lower prices to lure people to the theaters!

[Blaze Heatnix]

Wow, are you saying Neeson managed to be higher than The Last Jedi? Whoa!!! 

 

 

[Brainbug]

8 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

Wow, are you saying Neeson managed to be higher than The Last Jedi? Whoa!!! 

 

 

 

To be fair, its TLJ's 5th weekend, not even TFA with its 9M admissions coud hold the No.1 spot longer than 4 weekends. And Neeson has a quite solid track record here.

Edited January 15, 2018 by Brainbug

[Taruseth]

9 hours ago, George Parr said:

I don't see a problem with FjG3 being this successful. The box office needs every success it can get, and I much prefer a local movie to be in that range than having comic book movies dominate the top 10. While I haven't seen the last one, I actually found the first FjG to be quite charming. Not nearly as flat as most other German comedies.

 

It's not like Germany has a unique taste in that regard. Pretty much every nation has its guilty pleasures that are hardly of high quality.

The first was good, so I was really excited for the second but I didn't like it and the trailers for the third looked absolutely atrocious.

 

1 hour ago, Blaze Heatnix said:

Wow, are you saying Neeson managed to be higher than The Last Jedi? Whoa!!! 

 

 

On Friday.

The Weekend was won by TLJ and Commuter was just third.

 

It wins the 5th weekend in Germany

Has anyone any Idea what film were the latest to top for five weekend straight.

DM3 was for four than in the fifth in #2 and than in the 6th returned to the Top for one last week.

Okay, it was Minions that was on the top for the 1-5,7,10! Weekend

 

[Brainbug]

45 minutes ago, Taruseth said:

The first was good, so I was really excited for the second but I didn't like it and the trailers for the third looked absolutely atrocious.

 

On Friday.

The Weekend was won by TLJ and Commuter was just third.

 

It wins the 5th weekend in Germany

Has anyone any Idea what film were the latest to top for five weekend straight.

DM3 was for four than in the fifth in #2 and than in the 6th returned to the Top for one last week.

Okay, it was Minions that was on the top for the 1-5,7,10! Weekend

 

 

[Taruseth]

Just now, Brainbug said:

 

Well... I watched Minions in Cinema.... So.... 

didn't watch DM3 though

[Brainbug]

11 minutes ago, Taruseth said:

Well... I watched Minions in Cinema.... So....

 

[Aristis]

1 hour ago, Taruseth said:

The first was good, so I was really excited for the second but I didn't like it and the trailers for the third looked absolutely atrocious.

I saw the first in TV and I thought it was quite funny (funnier than everything with Emma Schweiger ). I may see the 2nd and 3rd if they are in TV too, but I wouldn't pay to see them...

 

13 minutes ago, Taruseth said:

Well... I watched Minions in Cinema.... So.... 

didn't watch DM3 though

Minions was funny, DM3 was awful. I'm not surprised it had worse legs than the other ones of this franchise...

 

[George Parr]

The Minions movie blew most of its good scenes on the trailers. No idea how they managed to do that.

 

DM3 was kind of meh, the worst part was how completely disconnected the Minions bits felt from the rest of the movie. It's like they couldn't leave them out because they are the most popular part of the franchise, while at the same time couldn't really find a way to incorporate them into the main story, leading to a situation where you basically had two different movies rolled into one.

 

I actually had to watch both in cinema due to some friends liking the minions so much. Not that they turned out to like either movie much at all

Edited January 15, 2018 by George Parr

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany's Top20 last weekend:

	title	admissions	th.	PTA	total adm.	total €	drop	week
1	Star Wars 8	201.758	649	311	5.503.289	5.503.289	-57	5
2	Dieses bescheuerte Herz	192.771	725	266	1.467.250	12.203.120	-37	4
3	The Commuter	184.749	449	411	219.535	1.897.914	-	1
4	Jumanji	167.912	604	278	1.483.946	14.330.320	-44	4
5	The Greatest Showman	113.409	526	216	365.484	3.166.527	-35	2
6	Insidious 4	91.588	353	259	302.858	2.703.671	-50	2
7	Pitch Perfect 3	76.819	477	161	906.056	7.452.711	-51	4
8	Ferdinand	71.266	709	101	783.200	5.567.692	-52	5
9	Your Name	64.830	153	424	64.830	785.141	-	1
10	Coco	62.883	633	99	1.143.394	8.792.277	-54	7
11	Aus dem Nichts	48.320	245	197	400.106	3.299.221	+107	8
12	Paddington 2	34.117	597	57	1.131.024	7.649.181	-58	8
13	Loving Vincent	30.578	150	204	154.654	1.219.605	-29	3
14	Murder on the Orient Express	29.894	325	92	1.438.708	12.607.156	-46	10
15	The Leisure Seeker	28.305	136	208	89.196	703.755	-27	2
16	Ariv V 216 (AFM)	26.419	55	480	26.419	255.594	-	1
17	Wonder Wheel	24.018	128	188	25.546	209.568	-	1
18	Tadeo Stones 2	17.969	233	77	17.969	127.254	-	1
19	Dvizhenie Vverkh	12.710	84	151	12.710	138.729	-	1
20	Fack Ju Göhte 3	11.748	219	54	6.044.234	52.670.119	-57	12

 

Five titles over 100k admissions and a 6th one not far behind - overall a good weekend but without a clear leader. Star Wars 8 keeps dropping and if there isn't a miracle won't win the 2017 crown after all. Domestic releass Dieses bescheuerte Herz showed a good hold once more and is on it's way to well beyond 2mil admissions, as is Jumanji (a little closer to 2mil, that one). Among openeres, The Commuter did basically what was expected - still good - and surprisingly, anime Your Name made it into the Top10 with a fine PTA despite infrequent shows (those were obviously packed - expect a slight expansion, theater-wise as well as showtimes). Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel was way below what Woody did in the past ...

Next weekend: A wide range of new and interesting releases; the ones with the widest appeal are probably:

Domestic crime comedy Hot Dog (going by the names involved, it might become a blockbuster, but it really doesn't feel that big - at least, #1 for the weekend should be possible)

SciFi comedy Downsizing which got some decent reviews - but non-explosion SciFi is always a tough sell. Maybe it can reach 100k OW.

And domestic comedy sequel Hilfe ich habe meine Eltern geschrumpft - an opening around 100k should be possible, too - the first one went on to >1mil total (but from a better start date).

So, overall, once more we can expect a good weekend with a wide range of releases, a lot of theam >100k admissions - drops might seem a bit steeper with the attractive new releases.

[George Parr]

Having another movie get past 2m will also mean that there is no movie below that mark in last years top 10. Not all that important, but it kind of looks better

 

And boy are there some bad new trolls on the main boards lately...

The only good thing is that most of them tend to vanish once their prime target isn't around anymore.

[Brainbug]

Wrong thread, ups

Edited January 16, 2018 by Brainbug

[IndustriousAngel]

23 hours ago, IndustriousAngel said:

SciFi comedy Downsizing which got some decent reviews - but non-explosion SciFi is always a tough sell. Maybe it can reach 100k OW.

I have to correct myself, I just realised that this is playing in less than 300 theaters so 100k are, while not impossible, certainly improbable. Would be glad if proven wrong, of course