BO Germany/Austria: Dune 2 fine 2nd weekend

[Poseidon]

Opening-wise, of course. But it's still Friday, and the final verdict will be how it does next weekend. Obviously there was little awareness and no rush, now let's see if some WOM gets around. But at this point, 1mil admissions look nearly impossible - WOM has to be exceptional to get it that far.

 

It's not impossible, if it can have decent holds the next 2 weekends it will get a lot of help by easter holidays. Look what Narnia 3 did with the help of christmas.

[Rudolf]

2nd Trend Germany H&G and OZ about 225k admissions

[IndustriousAngel]

Uh-oh, #1 for Oz seriously in danger. brrr...

"Bullet to the Head" is flopping, too - about 50k admissions and legs are usually very short for this kind of film.

A positive opening surprise otoh: "Night Train to Lisbon" with about 80k - doing much stronger than I expected. Confirms that 2013 is the year of german (co-)productions!

[terrestrial]

I didn't expect H&G WH to be on #1 or #2 ... at its 2nd weekend here... wow

 

I think the whole 1st Quarter of 2013 had more BO-surprises than usually

[IndustriousAngel]

Ok, Sunday trends see Oz in front again, everything looks a bit stronger than in first trends:

Oz: 260k admissions

H&G: 240k

Kokowääh2: 130k

Save Haven: 125k

3096, DU, DH5 with 95k each fight for #5

[IndustriousAngel]

Fun facts:

In Austria 2012, The Hobbit 1 was #4, as in Germany, but it was a close race:

#4 Hobbit1: 620.719 admissions (actually still playing on some screens, so maybe 1.000 more)

#5 Ted :  618.091 admissions

 

Ted's run was really incredible here!

 

2013 looks poor at present (Jan + Feb data); big contrast to Germany where 2013 started extremely strong. The difference is that the numbers from Germany include an exceptionally strong home market with German (co-)productions accounting for more than 40% of receipts; those films didn't do nearly as much business in Austria.

Edited March 11, 2013 by IndustriousAngel

[IndustriousAngel]

[terrestrial]

Thanks

 

Harsh opening numbers for a #1 movie, still surprised about only -33% of H&G WH, mindblowing total admissions for 'Ziemlich beste Freunde' / Intouchables... = brought back?

Edited March 12, 2013 by terrestrial

[IndustriousAngel]

Maybe the distributor (Senator) tries to bring Omar Sy back into talk, later in March they'll release "De l'autre côté du périph" (german title: "Ein Mordsteam") also starring Omar Sy.

[terrestrial]

that is possible, 21. March release date...

 

To add the title's name or our fellow posters here

 

aka

 

On the Other Side of the Tracks

 

aka

 

On the Other Side of the Freeway

 

 

they might be rather happy about the X-Men: First Class - Days of.... casting news too

[IndustriousAngel]

Yep, that's great news for France - in Germany, we'll have to wait for "Mordsteam" and see if a film can profit from Omar Sy; the Cop Buddy Movie is a rather tired genre by now (imho).

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany + Austria Top 13 March 7 - 10

TW	LW	Movie	Studio	Weekend	Change	Gross	Week
1	N	Oz the Great and Powerful	Disney	$ 4.154.948	-	4.188.591	1
2	1	Hänsel & Gretel	PPI/UPI	$ 3.837.130	-35,8	11.454.277	2
3	2	Kokowääh 2	WB	$ 1.455.799	-40,7	23.362.400	5
4	4	Django Unchained	Sony	$ 1.266.679	-39,4	53.456.977	8
5	5	3096 Tage	Constantin	$ 1.195.947	-35,5	3.517.114	2
6	N	Safe Haven	Senator/Const.	$ 1.088.009	-	1.499.198	1
7	3	A Good Day to Die Hard	Fox	$ 1.053.491	-51,8	15.988.284	4
8	N	Night Train to Lisbon	Concorde/Filmladen	$ 958.281	-	1.013.981	1
9	6	Les Misérables	UPI	$ 861.451	-41,6	5.527.608	3
10	N	Bullet to the Head	Constantin	$ 575.025	-	642.536	1
11	7	Parental Guidance	Fox	$ 469.600	-40,3	1.337.760	2
12	8	Fünf Freunde 2	Constantin	$ 447.331	-18,7	7.419.959	6
13	9	Warm Bodies	Concorde/Const.	$ 243.684	-54,6	2.100.549	3

All (semi-)wide openers managed to make it to the Top10, but the results for Oz and BTTH are underwhelming. H&G had a higher PTA than Oz! "Night Train to Lisbon" did extremely good for an arthouse production. DH5 continues its fall. btw, BOM has updated their US$-Euro-exchange rate again so some films dropped in totals despite making money this week.

This weekend, we have a lot of openers, some very wide: "Rubinrot" (german bestseller adaption) and "Jack the Giant Slayer" for the family/youth group, "This is 40" for the comedy crowd, "Hitchcock", "Song for Marion", and Ulrich Seidl's final part in his paradise trilogy, "Paradies: Hoffnung", plus some minor releases. It's difficult to see a leader - presales are poor on all sides - but I think Rubinrot, Oz and H&G will have a close battle for #1 while JackTGS went a little under the radar and will make #4 at best. With something in theaters for every demo, business should be decent in any case!

[lab276]

[terrestrial]

like IndustriousAngel already posted in #968

 

Intouchables is back in the top 20

Edited March 13, 2013 by terrestrial

[terrestrial]

I continue to be dazzeled by the H&G WH numbers....

 

Beside movie-devoted boards I didn't see either ads nor a specific hint about the German co-production (local support or German production or whatever). Has someone else another impression / experience?

[lab276]

like IndustriousAngel already posted in #968

Sorry, I didn't realise.

[terrestrial]

better twice then none info

[IndustriousAngel]

Intouchables is back in the top 20

Yep - and I think it is a kind of "special" release (school shows maybe) because Intouchables doesn't show up on the according BOM weekend list at all. First I thought this might be an official re-release since Omar Sy's next film is due in two weeks. btw, Intouchables has now more than 426mil US$ according to BOM.

[Olive]

Itouchables will cross 9M milestone.

[IndustriousAngel]

Opening night for "Jack the Giant Slayer" - somewhere between underwhelming amd piss-poor, even worse than I expected. Ok, it's only Thursday, so maybe it can pick up some speed during the weekend but I don't think so.