BO Germany/Austria: Gladiator2 #1 with so-so OW

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany, Austria and the german-speaking Part of Switzerland are one of the biggest overseas markets for Hollywood, with about 95 million inhabitants. Of course the French watch more films per year, but in Germany Hollywood films have a far bigger market share (most films are dubbed), usually exceeding 70% and sometimes reaching 80%, while they rarely reach 50% in France.BoxOfficeMojo lists Germany, Austria and Switzerland separately, but in fact those german-speaking areas form a single market, worked by the same distributors (and partly theater-chains), using the same opening dates and sharing a very similar demographic. The biggest distributors are UIP (=Universal+Paramount), Warner, Disney, Sony International, 20th CF, and local distributor/producer Constantin (with some sub-units).Germany + Austrians pay in EUR; the Swiss in SFR and since everything gets converted to USD for charts like on BoxOfficeMojo, those numbers are in a constant state of uncertainity and flux. Yet Rentrak also counts admissions and those don't wobble around while looking at them, so they're more reliable but don't tell the whole truth, especially with 3D still being a major factor.I'll try to post actual numbers once a week; usually this will be mid-week.

Edited November 15 by IndustriousAngel

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany's + Austria's combined Top 15 2010/2011 in USD
2010
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part One)	71.951.538
Tangled	50.491.401
Inception	40.450.046
Alice in Wonderland (2010)	40.273.664
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	37.084.481
Despicable Me	30.102.936
Shrek Forever After	29.562.262
Sex and the City 2	28.473.721
Grown Ups	21.791.904
Sherlock Holmes	19.225.732
Toy Story 3	19.369.781
Resident Evil: Afterlife	18.547.371
The Last Airbender	17.763.871
How to Train Your Dragon	17.710.351
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	17.237.748
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part Two)	85.535.674
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (3D)	70.457.694
The Hangover Part II	48.570.740
Kokowääh	46.233.643
Transformers 3	42.792.941
Puss in Boots	40.029.108
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1	37.615.731
The Smurfs	34.413.645
Fast Five	30.861.792
The King's Speech	25.996.409
Kung Fu Panda 2	24.485.258
Black Swan	23.637.366
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	22.616.708
Bad Teacher	21.541.266
Cars2	21.209.442

[Rudolf]

in Vienna you can see a movie in 2D or in 3D or IMAXyou can see it in German or in English

[pinocchio]

In Switzerland german speaking part Intouchables once again destroyed the competition. It's getting boring:Intouchables -- THG -- Titanic 3D.In the french speaking part the new hit from France -- Sur La Piste Du Marsupilami -- easily was number one and Titanic just number 3:http://www.filmdistr.../top10adm.shtml

Edited April 10, 2012 by pinocchio

[IndustriousAngel]

The Marsupilami stories were very popular here too, maybe not on a Smurfs level but if the film's good it might do fine numbers too.

in Vienna you can see a movie in 2D or in 3D or IMAXyou can see it in German or in English

Yep that's true here too (Innsbruck) but only for English (maybe one show a day) and Arthouses where nothing gets dubbed. If 2D is offered depends partly on the distributor - last year Paramount decided to sell Thor and CaptainA only in 3D ... since Avengers is handled by Disney I hope for a better policy, I refuse converted 3D.

[pinocchio]

in Vienna you can see a movie in 2D or in 3D or IMAXyou can see it in German or in English

Yeah, those Austrians and their IMAX theatre...Okay, it got it. You have an IMAX theatre, we don't.Now please shut up! :ph34r: :ph34r:

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany Top Ten 06. - 08. April

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Theaters	Th. Change	PTA	Gross	Week
1	1	The Hunger Games	StudioCanal	$3,233,394	-8.3%	640	17	$5,052	$13,987,129	3
2	N	Titanic 3D	Fox	$2,966,067	new	470	-	$6,311	$2,966,067	1
3	2	Türkisch für Anfänger - Der Film	Constantin	$2,656,893	-7.8%	598	16	$4,443	$15,187,324	4
4	3	Wrath of the Titans	WB	$2,206,736	-17.2%	469	8	$4,705	$5,882,576	2
5	5	Intouchables	Senator	$1,848,798	+24.4%	668	-31	$2,768	$70,935,914	14
6	N	Mirror Mirror	StudioCanal	$1,477,696	new	405	-	$3,649	$1,477,696	1
7	4	Russendisko	PPI	$1,445,247	-6.9%	434	33	$3,330	$3,683,865	2
8	N	Iron Sky	Splendid	$1,275,767	new	164	-	$7,779	$1,275,767	1
9	6	The Pirates! Band of Misfits	Sony	$926,617	-32.2%	676	63	$1,371	$3,491,695	2
10	7	The Woman in Black	Concorde	$620,291	-19.1%	277	7	$2,239	$1,731,282	2

In Austria Hunger Games came in behind Titanic, in Switzerland behind Intouchables. Highest PTA: Iron Sky.

Some interesting facts about distributors: "Hunger Games" is distributed by different ones for Germany and Austria (StudioCanal, a french company working with Lionsgate and Miramax, for Germany; Elmo Movie World for Austria - that's a small local company working together with Disney Austria). Maybe this year will see some changes in the distribution business: After some slow years small distributor Senator has a real hit with "Intouchables" and has formed a joint venture with US company "Relativity Media"; from this year on they are exclusive distributors for RMs films. And StudioCanal might profit from Lionsgate's success.

I'll update the numbers as soon as I get details from Austria.

[IndustriousAngel]

Ok, I tried to put the weekend sum for Germany + Austria + ger.Switzerland into one table. Since I'm not too sure on ticket prices those are rounded values in USD

The Hunger Games	3.727.000
Titanic 3D	3.650.000
Türkisch für Anfänger - Der Film	3.085.000
Wrath of the Titans	2.726.000
Intouchables	2.259.000
Mirror Mirror	1.895.000
Russendisko	1.445.000
Iron Sky	1.375.000
The Pirates! Band of Misfits	1.272.000
The Woman in Black	884.000

If you compare this to  the table above (only Germany) it's obvious that Germany's numbers already give a decent approximation; just ad about 20% (15 to 25 really) and you're there, so I guess in future weeks I'll just post Germany and mention A + CH only if there's anything interesting.

[IndustriousAngel]

Weekend trend Germany:Battleship should win with more than 400k admissions. Mostly steep drops for the holdovers - was to be expected after a very strong easter weekend. Children's films (Pirates and Mirror Mirror) seem to have the best hold on their low level while Titanic3D is sinking faster than expected.

Edited April 13, 2012 by IndustriousAngel

[iceroll]

Damn Intouchables is just crazy. Will THG reach 20m in Germany?

[IndustriousAngel]

20m should be doable, by Monday it will be over 16m. Not bad at all for a completely unknown story without stars or major names attached to it.

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany + Austria Top Ten 13. - 15. April

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Gross	Week
1	N	Battleship	UPI	$4.650.912	-	$4.828.305	1
2	2	Titanic 3D	Fox	$2.366.429	-28,9	$7.896.419	2
3	1	The Hunger Games	StudioCanal	$2.156.449	-37,5	$19.302.536	4
4	3	Türkisch für Anfänger	Constantin	$1.958.367	-32,9	$20.515.421	5
5	5	Intouchables	Senator	$1.413.340	-28,6	$80.263.256	15
6	6	Mirror Mirror	StudioCanal	$1.259.154	-26,8	$4.348.873	2
7	9	The Pirates!	Sony	$1.186.601	-10,4	$6.311.450	3
8	N	The Grey	Constantin	$1.092.522	-	-	1
9	4	Wrath of the Titans	WB	$957.463	-61,7	$8.790.833	4
10	8	Iron Sky	Splendid	$831.910	-41,9	$2.840.831	2

Titanic, Pirates!, Mirror Mirror and Intouchables managed good to decent holds, everything else had big drops (coming from a strong Easter weekend). Especially Wrath collapsed with drops >60%. Pirates! had a weak start but shows perfect legs - yet still might struggle to reach even half the admissions of Chicken Run.

Behind the Top 10 "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" keeps on doing small but constant numbers. With a little help from Switzerland, John Carter should have crossed $10million.

The coming weekend has no big starts: Among "My Week With Marilyn", "Chronicle", "One for the Money" and "African Cats" plus some local productions, "Chronicle" should have the best start but I doubt if it can break into the Top 3. With "African Cats" it depends on how wide a release Disney is risking; it might crack the Top 10 if it's wide enough.

[Cedarpoint1111]

Can Hunger Games make 25m? The drops are not very steep at all.

[IndustriousAngel]

The drops are small and this weekend there's only "Chronicle" aiming for a similar demographic; however next weekend Avengers will hit it hard. But whatever the final number, it did better than expected - the property was completely unknown here; the sequel should do better.

[IndustriousAngel]

Weekend trend:Battleship drops about 55% but stays on top; Titanic drops about 45% and loses Nr.2 to Hunger Games (-40%). Intouchables and Türkisch für Anfänger battle for place 3, Titanic and best opener Chronicle for place 5. Mirror and Pirates have good holds again but coming from already small numbers.

[tilko]

The Grey bombed , and Battleship deserves much more .

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany + Austria Top Ten 20. - 22. April

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Gross	Week
1	1	Battleship	UPI	$2.466.475	-47,0	$8.414.671	2
2	2	Titanic 3D	Fox	$1.338.687	-43,4	$10.117.189	3
3	3	The Hunger Games	StudioCanal	$1.284.033	-40,5	$20.985.829	5
4	4	Türkisch für Anfänger	Constantin	$1.220.486	-37,7	$22.488.457	6
5	N	Chronicle	Fox	$1.064.221	-	$1.128.382	N
6	5	Intouchables	Senator	$1.014.765	-28,2	$82.259.521	16
7	6	Mirror Mirror	StudioCanal	$ 631.361	-49,9	$5.237.908	3
8	9	The Pirates!	Sony	$ 593.161	-50,4	$7.010.397	4
9	N	One for the Money	Concorde	$ 570.609	-	$1.003.778	N
10	10	Iron Sky	Splendid	$568.783	-30,8	$3.728.630	3

"Intouchables" and "Iron Sky" excepted, everything in the Top 10 was either dropping hard or had a weak opening. "African Cats" flopped with few theaters AND a low PTA. "My Week With Marilyn" came in nr. 11, decent numbers.

This Thursday "Avengers" is opening, propably on nr.1, let's hope business picks up speed. The weather is looking to become summery though, so don't expect monster numbers this weekend. "American Reunion", "The Lucky One" and some European films are opening too, maybe AR can crack the Top 3 .

[Rudolf]

Your "Anschluß"-charts need getting used to

[Fullbuster]

Can we expect big numbers in Germany for The Avengers?

[Rudolf]

Can we expect big numbers in Germany for The Avengers?

That is what the franchise made before Germany $8,560,475 $2,461,403 $9,254,348 $16,007,303 $4,872,496 Edited April 25, 2012 by Rudolf