Clearly, there is not enough demand for a 2D version.

You gotta be kidding or just plain stupid. With so much money spent on screens convertion, glasses, promotion and other stuff Hollywood is not going to give up so soon. Give people no choice and then say that people love 3-D and always choose it over 2D.

And who are you that you can say the majority in Germany does not want 3D?

TF3 was the biggest opener in the franchise, in admissions. People seem to be willing to pay for 3D, that's all that matters to the theaters. When they stop going than you might have an argument.

The first Transformers finished with 1,511,919 admissions here. The second got 1,906,445 (though I wonder how much the double features have added last weekend).

At its current pace it seems extremely like that Transformers: Dark of the Moon will outdo the first film's total admissions by the end of its second weekend. The second film will fall by the end of its third weekend. 2+ million admissions is a lock. I think 2.3-2.4 million should happen, similar to Fast Five.

1) 417,448 TF3 (-50 %)
2) 277,345 Zookeeper
3) 167,445 Bad Teacher (-46 %)
4) 79,966 KFP2 (-58 %)
5) 71,648 Hangover 2 (-44 %)

Much nicer weather this weekend...

At my theatre around 830 tickets were sold tonight (out of potential 1,354). That's very good, though not record-breaking for my theatre. The LOTR films were doing better opening night. Of course it is by far outpacing everything else this year.

Including midnights?

Nope, that were just the Wednesday 8pm showings.

Looks like opening day was the 2nd biggest in the series in terms of admissions and of course biggest by far in b.o.

And it seems that it was the biggest opening day of the last four years...

Weekend Estimates:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - 2,025,000 admissions (including previews)
2. Zookeeper - 300,000 admissions
3. Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 225,000 admissions
4. Bad Teacher - 130,000 admissions


All family films increased.

1) 1,607,782 HP7-2 (2,015,450 5 days)
2) 297,208 Zookeeper (+7 %)
3) 220,117 TF3 (-47 %)
4) 130,670 Bad Teacher (-22 %)
5) 82,249 KFP2 (+3 %)

I'm pretty disapointed in HP's number in Austria and Germany. I know weather was really good but I still expected more.

Actually weather was pretty bad, that's why the other movies held up pretty well...

Well that makes it's number even more disapointing for me.

I agree, quite disappointing IMO as well. I expected at least 2.3 million in five days. But I kinda sensed it when I went to see it on Wednesday. None of the screens it was on came very close to selling out (though to be fair, it was playing on four screens...)

Only two wide releases this weekend: Bridesmaids and Insidious. None will pose any competition to Harry Potter. I hope it can stay above 950,000 admissions. That'll definitely give it at least 3.9 million admissions by the end of the second weekend.

Photo finish in Germany between Cars 2 and Harry Potter.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 - 603,932 admissions
Cars 2 - 603,037 admissions (excluding previews)

Haven't had that on this huge scale in a long while.

Cars 2 delivered a better opening admissions-wise in Germany than Up, WALL-E and Toy Story 3.

Could anyone please tell me about Resturlaub? How to translate it and what this film is about? I got the general idea but the title still puzzles me.

Woohoo for Zookeeper! $16.2M in the bank so far!

Looking for an $18M finish! Would be fantastic if it achieves that.

1) 6,294,404 HP7-2
2) 4,379,349 POTC4
3) 4,302,451 KOKOWÄÄH (German)
4) 4,072,380 HANGOVER 2
5) 2,565,354 TF3
6) 2,457,380 F&F5
7) 2,371,384 THE KING'S SPEECH
8) 2,174,002 BLACK SWAN
9) 2,035,320 THE SMURFS
10) 1,872,373 THE ZOOKEEPER

Reminder: 3m is the blockbuster benchmark...

http://www.insidekino.com/DJahr/DAlltime100bo.htm

Here's a new list of the biggest box office hits of all-time...

So Wickie will get around 1/5 of first film admissions. Looks like making it in 3-D was a very bad move.

3D is not the problem (this time), beautiful weather with summer temperatures is...

Even the most beautiful weather in the world could not explain alone 80% drop.

Well, this is the way I see it:

30 % drop because Michael Bully Herbig is not on board
20 % drop because it is a family film sequel
30 % drop because of the weather