Judging by opening day sales, BAD NEIGHBORS could deliver the third biggest opening weekend of the year...

Why'd they change the title?

I think it was the orginal U.S. title that later got changed to NEIGHBORS..

Oh really? Ok. Didn't know that.

Judging by Friday sales, I can't rule out the biggest opening of the year for NEIGHBORS...

Biggest opening weekends 2014 (admissions):

1) 511,652 The Wolf of Wall Street
2) 482,788 Vaterfreuden
3) 475,000 Neighbors (Estimate)
4) 372,768 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
5) 344,534 The Other Woman

That's really sad to look at.

http://www.insidekino.com/DTop10/14/DTop14MAI8.htm

With actuals NEIGHBORS rose to the second biggest opening weekend of the year...

Always great to see how big Wolf opened in Germany....very impressive.

Judging by Thursday sales, opening weekend of GODZILLA should be worth $6.5m - $7m...

Mark since you post admissions always how close the opening will be to Neighbors?

Very close... (could be fourth best to best opening weekend of the year)

That's great to hear though this one should have higher ticket prices due to 3D which could mean lesser admissions.

Uh, oh, looks like GODZILLA is rather frontloaded, weekend trend after two days down from 500,000 admissions to 425,000 (incl. previews) - still ahead of TASM2 though...

The weather must be hurting the films again this weekend.

Uh, oh, looks like GODZILLA is rather frontloaded Part II:
Weekend trend after three days down to 360,000 admissions (i.p.)... TASM2 had 405,711 admissions (i.p.)...

Any reason for that? That seems pretty low to me. I was expecting a 600,000+ opening.

Better weather than expected, frontloadedness plus soccer finale watched by 14m...

http://insidekino.de/DTop10/14/DTop14MAI15.htm

GODZILLA barely beats THE OTHER WOMAN for fifth biggest opening of the year...

Thanks to a national holiday it looks like X5 will drop only 10 % in its 2nd weekend while there was an onslaught of newcomers:
MALEFICENT (375,000 i.p.), A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (250,000 i.p.) and EDGE OF TOMORROW (160,000 i.p.)

These are the last big openers for the next 7 weeks due to the soccer world cup...

Kind of a rhetorical question, but....why is everything doing such mediocre numbers for such a long time? Are Germans that influenced by ongoing good weather?! I mean where are 500,000+ openings, let alone 800,000+ ones?!

I remember summer 2001 when movies were opening to HUGE numbers left and right? I mean looking back, no way a film like Pearl Harbor, American Pie 2, Tomb Raider or Planet of the Apes would open as well as they did back then, under any circumstances.

I think audiences just got very selective what to watch due to high ticket prices... And to be honest, most of the U.S. movies nowadays are just not made for the German market, concentrating on Asian audiences.

If this trend of weak openings and overall results continues in 2015 and 2016 than the business is doomed. But I think the crop of 15/16 is much more accessible to German audiences...

But I think even the very same films that were big in 2000-2003 njust wouldn't do nearly as well nowadays. I mean do you really think The Mummy Returns and Pearl Harbor would get 4+ million admissions nowadays? Or Hannibal more than 3 million?

But back than those kind of event pictures were not as common as today. Nowadays it seems like there's an event picture opening every week...

My nephew - comic book, fantasy & SF fan - used to go to the movies once a week. Now his favorite movies (comic book, fantasy & SF) are all in 3D and he can't afford to watch them all. So nowadays he goes to the movies once a month and waits for the DVD which is usally cheaper than the 3D ticket.

You and me, who usually watch movies for free, underestimate the anti-power of an expensive movie ticket...

I guess so. It has become much less exciting, though, following the German box-office. Also more predictable. Most blockbuster films seem to fall into the 1-2 million admissions, range, big sequels get to 2-3 million and only absolute event films get above 3 million. Surprises like Fack Ju Göhte, Intouchables and Skyfall aside, it is all fairly predictable. I mean even Frozen wasn't nearly as much of a stunning success as in many other markets. A film like that should have handily gotten to 6 million admissions. A film like Edge of Tomorrow would have opened to half a million admissions ten years ago. I understand why it doesn't happen now, but it is frustrating nonetheless.

1999-2004 was a great time to follow the German box-office.