Even more reason for another sequel:) Is 3D the only reason it's doing so much better than the others?

I think so. In Germany, the 3D venues made up only 33% of its total theatre count, but 65% of the tickets sold were sold for those 3D venues.

In Poland it's shown only in 3D on 68 screens. And that's probably the biggest and only reason why it is doing so well here. ( With the speed our cinemas are adding 3D screens I think that in time for Avatar there should be around 140 screens with 3D )

EDIT: Made a mistake with ammount of 3D screens. Forgot that there are also G-Force and Ice Age 3 showings that are shown on other 3D screens. Right now there are probably close to 100 screens so there should be more for Avatar.

Can anyone from germany confirm if Up released over there this week. There are no updates at insidekino this week.

I'm pretty sure it is. Hopefully it does well, if France/Spain are any indication.

Yep it gets released in germany + austria this weekend, but chances are very high that it won't make it to #1. At least here in Austria

Why that?

Wickie will beat it?

Yup, Wickie is way too strong here. Up won't open that big to match Wickie's second weekend.

At my theatre, Up was doing better (despite having less showings)... But my theatre is very small and not very representive. Patrick, have you seen Up yet?

Pretty cool. I have to write weekly reports for foreign box office and it's always great to see something fresh and new except boring american movies.

I do hope for a surprise but I see Wickie's 2nd weekend at around 120,000 - 140,000 adm. and I doubt Up will manage that.

No, looks like I won't be seeing it till next week. Is it worth watching it in 3D?

It would be much cooler if it wouldn't be Wickie who's beating Up though. But maaaybe 3D helps Up much more than I think it will.

All Bully's big hits were released in Russian theaters and were quite popular on DVD. I guess Der Schuh des Manitu is also one of the most popular and often played foreign movies on Russian and Ukrainian TV. So it is very likely that we will get Wickie as well.

Interesting, I thought this was an exclusive german speaking thing. How big were Bully's films in russia?

Wrong guess. It's nothing compared to REALLY popular and often played foreign films. If you take modern ones, outside of Hollywood, French films are BY FAR more popular and often played. Taxi, Asterix, Amelie, Besson's films - you can't even compare Manitu with these monsters as it has a tiny fraction of their popularity. I haven't seen Manitu on Russian TV for a long-long time.



Der Schuh - $196 959
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - $275 000
Lissi - $1 009 000, and this was animation
No one cares about Herbig in Russia, it's not a brand name. If he had any kind of drawing power, they wouldn't have released his films a year after they were released in Germany. I don't know how did you come to an idea that he is any popular...

I recently saw the DVD of Bully's "Traumschiff Surprise" in Virgin Music Store, Strasbourg, France. It's called "Space Movie" there, and the DVD cover is mostly consisting of Til Schweiger (now after Basterds, he has a name, it seems)...

Patrick, 3D is quite neat, but it's MUCH more important that you go to see the ORIGINAL VERSION. Dubbing sucks (I've seen both)

""Up's" marathon foreign rollout suddenly turned into a sprint over the weekend as the Pixar/Disney animation title in 3D took the No. 1 spot for the first time this year with a boxoffice tally of $13.7 million from 2,718 locations in 23 countries.

Although in offshore release since May 29, "Up" had mostly ranked towards the middle of the pack each round thanks to its graduated foreign distribution pattern spaced over seven months in order to capitalize on school holidays and other local factors worldwide.

"Up's" total overseas take stands at nearly $200 million ($196.7 million) with a slew of key foreign markets -- including Italy, the U.K., all of Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, Turkey and Poland -- to play before its foreign run ends Dec. 5 in Japan. These territories are expected to add at least another 40% to 50% of the current take in foreign boxoffice.

Disney has said that "Up" on a local currency basis is so far on track to exceed the final foreign tallies of Pixar predecessors "Wall-E" (total overseas b.o. of $310 million) and "Ratatouille" ($415 million). "Up" has generated cumes of $38 million from France, $6.7 million from Brazil, $8.5 million from Australia and $32.4 million from Spain -- making it that market's biggest animation release of all time.

Opening overseas at 1,238 screens in 15 markets, Sony's "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" in 3D got off to an unimpressive start with a total boxoffice gross of $6 million. It ranked No. 5 on the weekend. Premiering overseas simultaneously with its No. 1 domestic bow, the family-oriented animation outing, based on Ron and Judi Barrett's book about a scientific experiment causing food to rain from the sky, premiered No. 1 in the U.K. with $2.8 million from 537 sites.

Sony's "Julie & Julia" with Meryl Streep as French cooking guru Julia Child opened No. 7 in France with $1 million lured from 274 screens. Overall, the weekend take was $2.2 million from 1,065 sites in seven markets for a cume so far of $6.4 million.

No. 2 on the weekend was The Weinstein Co./Universal's "Inglourious Basterds," which drew $11.2 million from 2,900 locations in 40 territories, pushing its international total to $115.7 million and making it director Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing title overseas. His previous best was 2003's "Kill Bill: Volume 1" ($111.4 million). A No. 1 Spain opening drew $4 million from 378 sites.

Third was Sony's romantic comedy "The Ugly Truth," starring Katherine Heigl, which opened in eight fresh markets and finished No. 1 in two (Ukraine and Singapore). Its total weekend tally was $9.4 million from 2,300 screens in 41 territories for an overseas cume of $44.9 million. The biggest of the new markets was Russia ($3 million from 416 screens).

No. 4 was "The Final Destination," the fourth title in New Line/Warner's horror-thriller franchise, which had reigned for the previous two stanzas as the top overseas champ. Its weekend tally was $9.2 million from 2,300 locations in 35 territories, pushing the overseas cume to $70.4 million. A No. 1 Hong Kong bow produced $787,000 from just 60 sites for a hefty $13,117 per-screen average.

Fifth was Sony's special-effects-laden drama "District 9," which elicited $8.5 million (from all territories including those not handled by Sony) for a foreign cume of $47.8 million. Thanks to lusty action in Italy, where its was No. 1 for the fourth consecutive weekend, 20th Century Fox's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" drew $4.7 million on the weekend from 2,000 screens in 28 markets for a cume of $677.2 million.

In Germany, where sunny weekend weather suppressed attendance somewhat, Constantin/Fil Verleih's "Wickie und die starken Männer" remained No. 1 for the second consecutive weekend. Director Michael Herbig's family adventure about a timid Viking youth taking to the sea grossed an estimated $5.3 million from 750 screens for a market cume of $18 million.

Sony's subway thriller "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" pulled $3.7 million from 1,930 screens in 41 markets for a cume of $62.3 million. Disney's "G-Force" pushed its cume to $84.1 million thanks to a $3-million weekend from 2,269 locations in 30 territories.

In France, Studio Canal's "L'Armee du crime" (Army of Crime), director Robert Guediguian's World War II drama set in occupied Paris, opened No. 6 with an estimated $1 million from 294 locations. UGC's release of director Jacques Audiard's prison drama "A Prophet," which won the grand prize at this year's Cannes festival and will represent France in the foreign-language Oscar sweepstakes, finished No. 5 with $1.1 million from 350 sites for a market cume of $7.5 million over four rounds.

The most popular local language title was TFM's comedy "Neuilly sa mere," which held its No. 3 market spot with $1.5 million from 469 screens for a France cume of $16.8 million over six rounds. Mars Distribution's "Le coach," another comedy, dropped two places to rank No. 4 on the weekend with $1.4 million from 345 locations for a two-stanza cume of $3.4 million.

Other international cumes: Disney's "The Proposal," $134.9 million; Fox's "(500) Days of Summer," $6.3 million; Paramount's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," $148 million; Fox's "Aliens in the Attic," $25.5 million; Warner's "The Hangover," $178.6 million; Universal's "Funny People," $12 million; Fox's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," $190.3 million; Universal's "Public Enemies," $98 million; and Universal's "9," $4.2 million (Universal markets only). "

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... 7b7bf87c75

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That opening in Germany for Up isn't on Ratatouille/Nemo levels, but it's comparable to The Incredibles/Wall-E thanks to 3D.

Still, from what I've gathered, it was beaten by the 2nd weekend pull of what would be comparable to the live-action adaptation of "Scooby Doo" over here.

Yeah, admissions-wise it is a very very disappointing opening. Around 450,000 estimated admissions. That's ONE-THIRD of Ratatouille's opening and also behind WALL-E's (at least somewhat ahead of Cars'). Still, this is a disappointment. It was just the wrong time to open it. They should have waited 3-4 more weeks.

Maybe it will have good legs?

I think it will. But it can go either way, I have the impression.

Even then, it has A LOT of ground to make up for. WALL-E finished with 3.2 million admissions, Ratatouille with a bit over 6 million...so in order to even pass 3 million it'd need a multiplier of over 6. Meh.

Also, unlike Ice Age 3 it won't have THAT much time in 3D because on October 15th G-Force comes out here and will take more than half of Up'sa 3D screens, I suppose. That's four weeks of 3D screens. Ice Age 3 had 11 weeks of 3D (since even when The Final Destination came out, it just shared most of the 3D screens with IA3).

Final Destination 4 is mad $70M already. Looks headed for $90-$100M internationally and $160m-ish worldwide.

Amazing!:)

The numbers was Up are solid, but Germany's a big disappointment. I hope Japan can make up for that. In any case looks like $600 million worldwide will happen, though probably barely.


Inglourious Basterds is huge overseas for a Tarantino flick! Mark it down for $300+ million worldwide.


The Final Destination is a real winner too. With New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Italy, Spain and a few more ahead, there's no way it won't pass $100 million overseas. In fact it'll become the first straight-up horror movie to cross $100 million OS since The Ring! I see it finding its way to $170 million or so worldwide.


District 9 might not be the huge break-out overseas that it is in the US, but $200+ million still seems pretty certain.


The Ugly Truth's run overseas is pretty good too. It has a slow roll-out, but with markets like Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan ahead, it should have little problem crossing $100 million OS and might actually pass $200 million worldwide too.