BO Germany/Austria: Dune 2 fine 2nd weekend

[IndustriousAngel]

actuals tomorrow but in general, most movies were underestimated; Sunday must have been really strong for nearly every release!

[el sid]

IMO the numbers are too nice for not being posted :

#1 Paw Patrol 367.5k
#2 Kaiserschmarrndrama 120k/665k total admissions and now the most successful German film of the year
#3 Tom & Jerry 95k
#4 Free Guy 75k
#5 TSS 65k
#6 Escape Room 2 60k
#7 The Forever Purge 52.5k
#8 F9 47.5k/1.84M

[efialtes76]

Excellent por Paw Patrol and very good for Tom&Jerry.

Edited August 23, 2021 by efialtes76

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany's Top20 last weekend:

	title	admissions	th.	PTA	total adm.	total €	drop	week
1	Paw Patrol	283.307	578	490	367.584	2.605.066	-	1
2	Kaiserschmarrndrama	117.982	554	213	666.008	5.715.148	+0	3
3	Tom & Jerry	94.949	526	181	273.974	1.942.043	+25	2
4	Free Guy	75.524	416	182	206.133	1.937.416	-4	2
5	The Suicide Squad 2	63.813	565	113	440.806	4.191.156	-21	3
6	Escape Room 2	58.812	328	179	58.986	543.137	-	1
7	The Forever Purge	52.522	370	142	162.567	1.418.261	-23	2
8	Fast & Furious 9	47.002	427	110	1.841.515	17.554.177	-19	6
9	Ostwind 5	42.874	639	67	433.320	3.097.661	+27	4
10	Die Olchis	28.410	532	53	372.702	2.527.528	+48	5
11	The Croods	24.986	428	58	733.204	5.455.236	+27	7
12	Promising Young Woman	24.202	194	125	40.676	324.508	-	1
13	Wrath of Men	21.552	287	75	273.032	2.369.282	-26	4
14	Druk	20.538	214	96	253.159	2.151.609	+40	5
15	Catweazle	15.973	349	46	568.887	4.276.759	+15	8
16	Space Jam 2	15.594	276	57	415.059	3.095.615	+4	6
17	Jungle Cruise	14.651	195	75	229.816	2.068.853	-24	4
18	Peter Rabbit 2	14.192	355	40	673.790	4.695.340	+29	8
19	Black Widow	13.190	139	95	727.551	6.858.465	-16	7
20	Spirit Untamed	12.251	313	39	228.126	1.582.991	+33	5

A super-nice weekend with a surprisingly big opener (nearly 500k PTA for a kiddie movie, wow) and excellent holds and increases even among family stuff. At that rate, Paw Patrol might reach 1mil total! That's also the goal for local crime comedy Kaiserschmarrndrama which is now lagging the predecessor by about 100k (not bad considering reduced capacities) but is still on course for 7 digits. And every release in the Top20 had >10k admissions, not a given on August weekends and a further hint that the post-Covid-market is more well-balanced than the pre-Covid one. In Austria, results were pretty much the same as in Germany, with Kaiserschmarrndrama doing about 50% better once more. (It was already at 100k in Austria after last Sunday …)

Next weekend: Killer's Bodyguard 2 … Candyman … The Father … Big Foot Family … Reminiscence … a lot of mid-sized releases for everyone but nothing for a new #1 I'd say (even #2 might be hard); at least weather should stay movie-friendly so we should see a very strong overall weekend once more!

[IndustriousAngel]

First estimates have no opener in the Top5 - that's really worse than expected, Killer's Bodyguard 2 ist the best with only 40k admissions ... Paw Patrol remains in #1 with 200k admissions for the weekend and Kaiserschmarrndrama #2 with >100k once more.

[el sid]

The third trend (with even better holds):

#1 Paw Patrol 260k
#2 Kaiserschmarrndrama 105k
#3 Tom & Jerry 95k
#4 Free Guy 75k
#5 Escape Room2 45k
#6 THWB 45k
#7 TSS 42.5k
#8 The Father 42.5k - now slightly above expectations
#9 The Forever Purge 40k
#10 Ostwind5 40k
#11 F9 37.5k
#12 The Ogglies2 27.5k
#13 Candyman 27.5k
#14 The Croods2 25k
#15 Bigfoot Junior 25k
...
Der Hochzeitsschneider von Athen 15k
Reminiscence 13k
Tides 10k

The Conjuring 3 (no weekend number so far) is now the most successful film of the series in Germany with more than 735k admissions.

 

Edited August 29, 2021 by el sid

[IndustriousAngel]

actuals tomorrow but it's been, again, a super weekend for holdovers, with numbers nearly identical to last weekend. Capacities are still not at maximum and slowly growing, so there should have been a slightly lower per-show-average counterbalanced by more shows. But in Austria we've seen increases this weekend despite having been nearly at "normal" capacities for a few weeks by now, must have been the lousy weather in Austria which drove people to the movies.

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany's Top20 last weekend:

	title	admissions	th.	PTA	total adm.	total €	drop	week
1	Paw Patrol	285.659	624	458	760.103	5.356.272	+1	2
2	Kaiserschmarrndrama	110.301	458	241	838.284	7.182.665	-7	4
3	Tom & Jerry	96.570	557	173	410.158	2.898.811	+2	3
4	Free Guy	75.933	419	181	314.039	2.904.769	+1	3
5	Escape Room 2	46.988	354	133	127.377	1.152.685	-20	2
6	Ostwind 5	44.111	605	73	502.006	3.575.005	+3	5
7	The Suicide Squad 2	43.668	492	89	510.163	4.828.491	-32	4
8	The Father	40.092	147	273	47.210	432.072	-	1
9	The Forever Purge	40.092	383	105	219.822	1.918.741	-24	3
10	Fast & Furious 9	38.520	365	106	1.899.584	18.105.655	-18	7
11	Killer's Bodyguard 2	31.672	340	93	45.479	366.622	-	1
12	Die Olchis	30.016	505	59	414.673	2.806.107	+6	6
13	Candyman	29.626	252	118	29.626	268.688	-	1
14	Bigfoot Junior 2	25.725	358	72	25.725	181.675	-	1
15	The Croods 2	25.354	365	69	770.162	5.718.883	+1	8
16	Raftis	20.386	189	108	27.969	245.118	-	1
17	Promising Young Woman	19.262	167	115	73.659	613.769	-20	2
18	Druk	17.952	190	94	283.158	2.407.263	-13	6
19	Catweazle	15.051	292	52	592.422	4.453.368	-6	9
20	Wrath of Man	14.978	227	66	295.636	2.569.076	-31	5

It was a weekend for holdovers, only one of the big openers in the Top10 (and that was the one with least theaters, The Father - not bad for such a release). Paw Patrol continued to surprise, and Kaiserschmarrndrama had an excellent forth weekend, catching up a bit on its predecessor (only trailing it by about 70k now).

Next weekend: Weather forcasts promise a last real summer weekend so expect horrible drops. Among openers, After We Fell should about follow ist predecessor which opened to about 230k, but with the beautiful weather, everything north of 175k would be a big success (and should be enough for #1). A bit of a dark horse is Marvel's Shang-ChiShang-Chi; reviews are not bad but I don't know if the franchise's popularity can push it over 150k on OW; if it's really good it might develop great legs later on. Two bigger domestic openers - family film Hilfe, ich habe meine Freunde geschrumpft (3rd in a series) and literary adaption Felix Krull - could make the Top10.

[IndustriousAngel]

Surprising early estimates for Germany's weekend on insidekino.de; After We Fell stays behind expectations and will probably become #2 with 130k admissions while Shang-Chi takes the top spot with about 150k, on the upper end of my expectations. As expected, very step drops for holdovers (-80% for Paw Patrol, -70% Kaiserschmarrndrama), so overall a pretty poor weekend.

[Legion Again]

Are we going to beat the horny menace?

[charlie Jatinder]

Lemme remind American Pie 4 beat The Avengers in here. 🤤

[el sid]

And don't forget the success of Baywatch and Dirty Grandpa here .

[IndustriousAngel]

Saturday estimates a bit higher for most releases so maybe the first estimates were overly pessimistic ... still far from a good weekend.

[charlie Jatinder]

From THU and FRI numbers I think SC should hit 180-190k but Mark has years of experience so his word means more.

[IndustriousAngel]

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

From THU and FRI numbers I think SC should hit 180-190k but Mark has years of experience so his word means more.

that would be excellent for such a release

[charlie Jatinder]

1 minute ago, IndustriousAngel said:

that would be excellent for such a release

Talked with him. He thinks weather being nice is reason he is pessimistic.

[Borobudur]

21 hours ago, el sid said:

And don't forget the success of Baywatch and Dirty Grandpa here .

And bohemian rhapsody beat IW. 

[el sid]

On 9/4/2021 at 4:13 PM, Borobudur said:

And bohemian rhapsody beat IW. 

Almost, I think. But that could have to do with the in another thread mentioned nostalgia factor .

The Monday update:

#1 SC 185k
#2 After We Fell 210k (50k in previews)
#3 Paw Patrol 95k/930k total admissions
#4 Kaiserschmarrndrama 47.5k/925k
#5 Free Guy 32.5k/372.5k
 

Edited September 6, 2021 by el sid

[charlie Jatinder]

So I suppose Shang Chi beat the weather and hormones.

[IndustriousAngel]

Germany's Top20 last weekend:

	ttile	admissions	th.	PTA	total adm.	total €	drop	week
1	Shang-Chi	185.661	421	441	185.661	1.928.515	-	1
2	After We Fell	159.726	553	289	210.638	1.860.908	-	1
3	Paw Patrol	94.962	664	143	926.238	6.511.552	-67	3
4	Kaiserschmarrndrama	46.013	525	88	926.374	7.925.698	-58	5
5	Free Guy	31.773	328	97	372.038	3.408.762	-58	4
6	Tom & Jerry	27.649	509	54	468.545	3.302.870	-71	4
7	Escape Room 2	27.398	358	77	169.558	1.516.237	-42	3
8	The Father	20.486	199	103	86.680	779.492	-49	2
9	Hilfe, ich hab meine Freunde geschrumpft	17.410	420	41	27.665	198.434	-	1
10	Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull	17.252	259	67	18.047	161.743	-	1
11	The Forever Purge	17.073	281	61	248.786	2.168.569	-57	4
12	The Suicide Squad 2	15.771	329	48	540.095	5.100.360	-64	5
13	Fast & Furious 9	15.027	275	55	1.925.825	18.358.015	-61	8
14	Candyman	13.032	237	55	53.039	469.332	-56	2
15	Ostwind 5	12.583	472	27	530.875	3.774.674	-71	6
16	Malignant	11.951	156	77	11.951	109.839	-	1
17	Wickie und die starken Männer - Das magische Schwert	11.625	488	24	18.747	131.043	-	1
18	Druk	9.477	180	53	303.156	2.569.321	-47	7
19	Die Unbeugsamen	8.440	110	77	33.724	282.422	-34	2
20	Killer's Bodyguard 2	8.433	327	26	65.786	542.910	-73	2

 

Considering the weather, Shang-Chi had a really good opening, while the teen romance stayed a bit behind expectations. The two bigger domestic productions opened inside the Top10 but the numbers were far from satisfying … overall, a poor weekend, only 17 movies >10k admissions despite 6 new releases in the Top20.

In Austria, we had a very similar weekend, with (once more) Kaiserschmarrndrama doing a lot better than in Germany (but still #4).

Next weekend: After a lot of attractive releases last weened, there seems to be nothing left for the coming one … Don't Breathe 2 might become the biggest opener and domestic release Beckenrand Sheriff could see some success thanks to little competition in the comedy segment, but I see none of them in the Top3. Also opening: Stillwater, with very few presales I doubt it will enter the Top10. On the bright side, weather is supposed to turn rainy so we should see some very nice holds or even increases, in general a much better weekend!

Edited September 7, 2021 by IndustriousAngel