Well, with German releases you never can be sure...

This September we will see Bully's new movie WICKIE UND DIE STARKEN MÄNNER - the comedian responsible for DER SCHUH DES MANITU (11.7m admissions) and (T)RAUMSCHIFF SUPRISE (9.2m). Even though I'm forecasting "only" 5-6m admissions right now, it is impossible to tell, wether this could go even further...

In Germany, Pixar is certainly much bigger than Dreamworks. Finding Nemo is still the 2nd-biggest CG-animated film of all-time here with over 8 milion admissions. Ratatouille was more successful here than any Shrek film. Germany was one of the few terrirotires where WALL-E actually did beat Kung-Fu Panda. And Monsters Vs. Aliens pretty much flopped here, considering its potential. (didn't even get close to 1 million admissions).

The same story as with Hui Buh and Lissi...Bully isn't gonna come close to those heights again. If anything makes it this far, it'll be something we simply can't predict beforehand. Something like Keinohrhasen (I mean who saw 6+ million for it?!).

wow

Well, the updated Overseas take is even higher:

$151,697,196


That's damn HUGE! And since unlike Transformers 2 it won't have much competition in its second overseas weekend, it should be at $300+ million OS by the end of the next weekend.

ICE AGE 3 is a MONSTER in Russia and CIS. Now biggest opening weekends (4 days, without Ukraine) are:
1. The Very Best Film $16,484,460
2. Ice Age 3 $16,431,218
3. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $16,361,057

4-day opening weekends in rubles:
1. Ice Age 3 512.5 m (damn, first film ever to break 500 million! Only 1,5 years after the first film to break 400 million)
2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 441.8 m
3. The Very Best Film 403.9 m

And IA3 now officially beats the total of IA2 in its first 5 days ($20.9 m Vs 19.2).

I wish we had last Summer's dollar, the numbers will be even more impressive (like $22 m instead of 16.4)

BTW, Transformers 2 was totally crashed (-83.7%)

$40 million total is a lock at this point - with HP opening in its 3rd w/e it has more than enough room. There's a potential for $45 million. I wonder if it could play with $50 million thanks to 3D... I'd really love to see it dethroning Irony of Fate 2.

In Germany it got 1,688,891 admissions opening weekend (5-day) which already makes it the 8th-biggest film of the year here! By the end of the next weekend, it'll be #2 (Angels & Demons is currently #1, but will fall to Ice Age 3 in 3-4 weeks).

Its 4-day opening (the normal opening weekend here) is the biggest since Madagascar 2 and the 28th-biggest of all-time in admissions (27th is the first Ice Age, by the way). With weather starting to worsen somewhat and the summer break starting in most parts of Germany this is looking good for 6+ million admissions in total.

France opening week:

2,403,734 admissions in 783 IA3*
2,171,810 admissions in 858 IA2
617.707 admissions in 651 IA1

*that's the biggest animation opening of all-time - even more amazing: IA3 opened on a Friday instead of the usual Wednesday so the opening week consists of only 5 days!!!

This is mind boggling. I've seen it. It's not as bad as Ice Age 2 but its not really that epic or special.

That's awesome, how does that on the all-time charts....in admissions?

19th biggest opening week of all-time - in just 5 days...
11th biggest opening week non-French movies

Gosh, as big as it is, couldn't even crack the Top 10...who's before it?

Les meilleures Premières Semaines France All Time

1 . BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TIS ( Pathe distribution ) : 4 458 837 / 2008
2 . LES BRONZES 3 AMIS POUR LA VIE ( Warner bros. ) : 3 906 694 / 2006
3 . ASTERIX ET OBELIX : MISSION CLEOPATRE ( Pathe distribution ) : 3 685 097 / 2002
4 . TAXI 2 ( Arp selection ) : 3 478 850 / 2000
5 . STAR WARS : EPISODE 3, LA REVANCHE DES SITH ( Twentieth century fox ) : 3 303 005 / 2005
6 . HARRY POTTER ET LA COUPE DE FEU ( Warner Bros. ) : 3 088 796 / 2005
7 . ASTERIX AUX JEUX OLYMPIQUES ( Pathe distribution ) : 3 007 811 / 2008
8 . LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX : LE RETOUR DU ROI ( Metropolitan filmexport ) : 2 935 984 / 2003
9 . LA VERITE SI JE MENS 2 ( Warner bros. ) : 2 830 489 / 2001
10 . SPIDER-MAN 3 ( Gaumont columbia tristar films ) : 2 778 533 / 2007
11 . HARRY POTTER ET LA CHAMBRE DES SECRETS ( Warner bros. ) : 2 728 766 / 2002
12 . ASTERIX ET OBELIX CONTRE CESAR ( Amlf ) : 2 718 443 / 1999
13 . PIRATES DES CARAIBES, JUSQU'AU BOUT DU MONDE ( Buena vista international (france) ) : 2 709 377 / 2007
14 . PIRATES DES CARAIBES LE SECRET DU COFFRE MAUDIT ( Buena vista international (france) ) : 2 708 112 / 2006
15 . LES COULOIRS DU TEMPS - LES VISITEURS II ( Gbvi ) : 2 655 916 / 1998
16 . HARRY POTTER ET LE PRISONNIER D'AZKABAN ( Warner bros. ) : 2 503 699 / 2004
17 . HARRY POTTER ET L'ORDRE DU PHENIX ( Warner bros. ) : 2 486 291 / 2007
18 . LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX : LES DEUX TOURS ( Metropolitan filmexport ) : 2 404 825 / 2002
19 . HARRY POTTER A L'ECOLE DES SORCIERS ( Warner bros. ) : 2 316 734 / 2001
20 . STAR WARS : EPISODE 1, LA MENACE FANTOME ( Ufd ) : 2 257 203 / 1999
21 . JURASSIC PARK ( Uip ) : 2 256 888 / 1993
22 . TAXI 3 ( Arp selection ) : 2 251 493 / 2003
23 . SHREK 2 ( Uip ) : 2 238 286 / 2004
24 . L'AGE DE GLACE 2 ( Twentieth century fox ) : 2 171 390 / 2006
25 . MEN IN BLACK 2 ( Columbia tristar ) : 2 141 755 / 2002
26 . MATRIX REVOLUTIONS ( Warner bros. ) : 2 121 172 / 2003
27 . MATRIX RELOADED ( Warner bros. ) : 2 112 676 / 2003
28 . INDEPENDENCE DAY ( Ufd ) : 2 110 017 / 1996
29 . SPIDER-MAN 2 ( Columbia tristar ) : 2 100 789 / 2004
30 . LE MONDE PERDU : JURASSIC PARK ( Uip ) : 2 091 975 / 1997
31 . RAMBO II LA MISSION ( Warner Columbia ) : 2 075 238 / 1985
32 . LE MONDE DE NEMO ( Gbvi ) : 2 056 621 / 2003
33 . TAXI 4 ( Europacorp distribution ) : 2 010 736 / 2007
34 . STAR WARS : EPISODE 2, L'ATTAQUE DES CLONES ( Ufd ) : 2 002 398 / 2002
35 . LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX : LA COMMUNAUTE DE L'ANNEAU ( Metropolitan filmexport ) : 1 978 162 / 2001
36 . RATATOUILLE ( Walt disney studios motion pictures France ) : 1 951 074 / 2007
37 . LE PACTE DES LOUPS ( Metropolitan filmexport ) : 1 924 934 / 2001
38 . SPIDER-MAN ( Columbia tristar ) : 1 903 136 / 2002
39 . CAMPING ( Pathe distribution ) : 1 879 507 / 2006
40 . LE CINQUIEME ELEMENT ( Gbvi ) : 1 822 948 / 1997
41 . LE MONDE DE NARNIA : CHAPITRE 1 ( Buena vista international (france) ) : 1 813 554 / 2005
42 . COCO ( Studiocanal ) : 1 806 263 / 2009
43 . MATRIX ( Warner bros. ) : 1 778 279 / 1999
44 . SHREK LE TROISIEME ( Paramount pictures France ) : 1 751 471 / 2007
45 . TITANIC ( Ufd ) : 1 743 419 / 1998
46 . MEN IN BLACK ( Columbia tristar ) : 1 731 371 / 1997
47 . LA PLANETE DES SINGES ( Ufd ) : 1 728 196 / 2001
48 . MISSION : IMPOSSIBLE ( Uip ) : 1 713 919 / 1996
49 . TERMINATOR 2 - LE JUGEMENT DERNIER ( Columbia tristar ) : 1 708 421 / 1991
50 . DA VINCI CODE ( Gaumont columbia tristar films ) : 1 707 373 / 2006

http://www.allocine.fr/communaute/forum ... e=186.html

To be fair, though, it did have two days less, it seems. With an additional two days, it probably would have cracked the Top 15.

THe Potter flicks are all over the place in the Top 20...and BIENVENUE CHEZ LES CH'TIS, WOW, more than 500k admissions more than the next movie.

The final Russian number was $20,886,744 according to BOM, by the way. That's fucking astounding.

International markets continue to be phenomenal for "Dawn of the Dinosaurs," however. It earned $98 million overseas this weekend, bringing its foreign total to a hefty $327.1 million.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/enterta ... ox_office/

Okay, this is truly AMAZING. I think my original $510 million prediction, while not easy to achieve, is still in play. I mean by the end of the next weekend it'll cruise past $400 million!


Is there a list for the biggest 2nd overseas weekend for simultaneous (or almost simultaneous) overseas releases?

Ice Age could do $500 m overseas. I still think March was such a huge wasted opportunity for it though. A $190 m domestic/$475 m overseas total from a July release, faces summer competition from Transformers and HP6. In March, it could have perhaps done $230 m/$560 m. So going from a $665 m worldwide tally to $790 m (#23 of all time ww). Outstanding international run though!

Ehh, with March it wouldn't have done $560 million OS...it would have faced less competition, but the school vacations are longer in the summer and Ice Age 3 benefits from that greatly.


In Germany, it managed to pretty much stay flat in its second weekend! (looking at the 7th-biggest 2nd weekend of all-time!). Damn.

Wow, early signs pointed towards a gross less than that of IA2, in North America as well as overseas, to me anyway, but now it actually seems as if it could match it, maybe even surpass it.

In North America, yes, but overseas it always seemed fine. I mean a $150 million opening weekend OS is pretty terrific.

Jesus. That's big.

Before the weekend numbers came in, e.g. Germany's early projections.