Well one more foreign box office thread but I was thinking a long time about making one so I think it's a good time to creat it.

All numbers in Admissions

For start TOP 20 movies after 1989 ( I will explain later why we track numbers before and after 1989 )

1. Ogniem i mieczem 7 150 000 adm.
2. Pan Tadeusz 6 170 000 adm
3. Quo vadis 4 300 000 adm
4. Titanic 3 510 000 adm
5. Passion of the Christ 3 450 000 adm
6. Shrek 2 3 390 000 adm
7. Shrek Third 3 352 469 adm
8, Jurassic Park 2 740 000 adm
9. Katyn 2 735 777 adm
10. Lion King 2 720 000 adm
11. LOTR: FOTR 2 530 000 adm
12. Harry Potter 1 2 520 000 adm
13. Lejdis 2 509 000 adm
14. W pustyni i w puszczy 2 230 000 adm
15. Kiler 2 200 000 adm
16. LOTR: ROTK 2 089 415 adm
17. Zemsta 1 980 000 adm
18. Ice Age 2: Meltdown 1 946 964 adm
19. Pope John Paul II 1 913 155 adm
20. Karol, un Papa rimasto uomo 1 878 124 adm

The list only for movies after year 1989 when Poland left communism and democracy started. Movies before 1989 had huge numbers which no movies after 1989 will never reach. It was caused by effect of free tickets. People received tickets for movies from their factories or other workplaces. It was made on huge scale which caused best movies to reach 36 milion admissions during time when there were 30 milion people living in Poland.

Haven't you already made one?!

Guys, you should not forget your brilliant movie past, regardless of this freaking thing...how did you call it? Oh, yeah, democrazy. I demand the data prior to 1989. Give me Pan Klyaksa and Znakhor.

Two more lists that might be helpful for later

Best opening weekends

1 Shrek Third 793 753 adm
2 Shrek 2 615 270
3 LOTR: ROTK 592 741
4 LOTR: FOTR 518 901
5 LOTR: TTT 464 944
6 Matrix Reloaded 447 550
7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 425 203
8 Pan Tadeusz 424 895
9 Ice Age 2: Meltdown 422 611
10 Harry Potter and goblet of fire 417 421
11 Matrix Revolutions 407 297
12 Harry Potter 1 355 955
13 Indiana Jones 4 346 617
14 Da Vinci Code 341 095
15 Passion of the Christ 336 244
16 Ogniem i Mieczem 335 613
17 Star Wars : ROTS 332 820
18 W Pustyni i w Puszczy 321 868
19 Quo Vadis 305 825
20 Chronicles of Narnja 1 305 179
21 Lejdis 302 400

Actually I never made my thread before

Rumpelschtiltzchen - You can find the list of top movies before 1989 under this LINK

I forgot about last weekend numbers

4-6 July ( weekend/total )

1 Kung Fu Panda ----- 189 930 / 297 386
2 Wanted ----- 37 354 / 140 144
3 Sex and the City ----- 27 048 / 208 794
4 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ---- 18 023 / 838 985
5 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ----- 12 508 / 752 755
6 Deux jours a Paris ----- 9 140 /149 015
7 The Other Boleyn Gir ----- 7 730 / 110 062
8 The Happening ------ 7 675 / 123 431
9 Street Kings ------ 5 368 / 5 368
10 Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis ----- 4 261 / 42 290

Well Shrek is very popular in Poland mostly because of great dubbing.

Yay! Except for the Shrek love, that's just wrong.

I don't have top 10 numbers yet but I know what top 2 has made last weekend.

Hancock won with Panda by 1183 admissions

Hancock had 117 366 admissions and Panda had 116 183 admissions.

I will post full top 10 on wednesday.

Here is 2008 top 20

1 Lejdis - 2 509 678
2 Nie kłam kochanie - 1 381 719
3 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 838 985*
4 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - 752 755*
5 Asterix aux jeux olympiques - 670 000
6 Jeszcze Raz - 600 000
7 Kung Fu Panda - 569 330*
8 Enchanted - 530 000
9 Step Up 2 the Streets - 475 000
10 National Treasure: The Book of Secrets - 400 000
11 Horton Hears a Who - 391 474
12 I Am Legend - 315 000
13 Rozmowy NocÄ… - 315 000
14 Alvin and the Chipmunks - 305 000
15 Ranczo Wilkowyje - 250 000
16 Urmel Aus Dem Eis - 247 274
17 Mała Wielka Miłość - 210 000
18 Sex and the City - 208 794*
19 The Mist - 205 000
20 El Orfanato - 202 878

* still in top 10

What the hell is up with Step Up 2. Seriously?

I cannot comment on the quality of the Polish titles as I don't know them and don't know if they deserve to be there, but Step Up and Urmel...

Surprised however to see The Mist and El Orfanato in there. Is the horror genre big in Poland?

Step Up 2 was popular mostly with teenagers who watch popular TV show "You can dance".

As for Horrors I can tell you that they don't go over 200k admissions to often but many of them reach over 100k admissions. There is not big but loyal group of fans. Many horrors have more admissions then huge comics adaptations.

As for Polish movies quality: Lejdis - good, Nie kłam Kochanie - average, rest - crap.

Disney + Dancing.

Weekend TOP 10 ( July 11-13 )

1 Hancock.................................. 117 366 / 117 366
2 Kung Fu Panda.......................... 116 183 / 569 319
3 Wanted.................................... 18 726 / 189 428
4 Sex and the City.......................... 16 617 / 252 145
5 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull................................ 12 319 / 866 899
6 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian............................. 8 032 / 777 151
7 Deux jours a Paris................................. 7 087 / 164 559
8 The Other Boleyn Girl................................ 5 412 / 122 662
9 The Happening.......................................... 3 357 / 133 217
10 Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis............................. 3 340 / 49 488

Weekend TOP 10 ( July 18-20 )

1 Wall-E....................................... 127 797 / 147 273
2 Kung Fu Panda.............................. 82 400 / 766 411
3 Hancock ........................................ 57 240 / 255 574
4 Jak żyć? ....................................... 26 400 / 26 423
5 Wanted.................................... 14 951 / 222 561
6 Sex and the City................................ 8 950 / 281 423
7 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull........ 7 933 / 887 006
8 Deux jours a Paris....................................................... 5 456 / 177 248
9 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian................... 5 384 / 793 676
10 La Zona.......................................................................... 4 542 / 4 542

* That's a not a good start for Wall-E
* Panda had a good hold against Wall-E
* Hancock is doing well. Next weekend it should have smaller drop than 50%.
* rest of the movies is just there

Weekend TOP 10 ( July 25-27 )

1 Wall-E....................................... 52 319 / 295 641
2 Kung Fu Panda.............................. 37 426 / 873 853
3 Hancock ........................................ 27 266 / 329 236
4 The X-Files 2: I want to believe ................ 19 932 / 19 932
5 Made of Honor.................................... 18 603 / 18 603
6 The Bank Job................................ 15 457 / 15 767
7 Get Smart........................................ 13 939 / 13 939
8 Jak żyć? ....................................... 9 963 / 57 876
9 Wanted................................................. 5 333 / 242 264
10 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull........ 2 843 / 896 503

Great, hot and sunny weather killed the box office last weekend. All movie fell from 50% to 70%.

Wall-e is disappointing This movie has great WOM but was release at a bad time

Kung Fu Panda - should easily pass 1 milion admissions but it will need some better drops get anything more than million.

Hancock - Is doing really good. Should end up around 410k admissions. Biggest W.Smith movie in Poland since Men in Black II.

Indy will end up around ROTS numbers which is a good number.

Wanted is getting close to Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 numbers

wasn't that released back in 1951????

There was a new version in 2001. BTW it's still the most expensive polish production. At the time it was made it cost around 20 milion $. Now that would be around 38 milion $. It needed at least 6 milion admissions to get back it's budget. It didn't make it

Mummy 3 had pretty impressive OW in Poland. I didn't expect it to make more than 70k adm. but it made 109 794 adm. It should end up making around 300k admissions in the end.

The Dark Knight opening weekend numbers are 110 203 adm. With previews it has 126 681 admissions. Very good opening considering that it's only on 80 copies ( Avg no of copies for a big movie is around 100 copies )

Here is Top 20 OW for a comic book adaptation in Poland

1 300 - 174 626
2 Asterix at the Olympic Games - 138 949
3 The Dark Knight - 110 203
4 Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra - 97 694
5 Spider-Man 3 - 92 381
6 Men in Black 2 - 84 069
7 Spider-Man - 80 651
8 Constantine - 73 628
9 Spider-Man 2 - 72 848
10 Wanted - 58 627
11 Sin City - 52 653
12 Ghost Rider - 42 434
13 Batman Begins - 40 305
14 X-Men: The Last Stand - 33 847
15 Iron Man - 32 095
16 Road to Perdition - 29 220
17 X-Men 2 - 28 777
18 Hulk - 21 882
19 Superman Returns - 21 239
20 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - 20 058

To make it clear: 300 and Asterix aren't considered as comic book adaptation in Poland by average viewers. Average person thought that 300 was a historic movie and Asterix is popular thanks to animated movies and not comics.

Epic "1612" easily becomes the highest grossing Russian picture in Poland ($0.455 m). Pretty impressive that they've even released it there - the subject matter is not an easy sell for the local audience as it deals with the Polish intervention and is highly pro-Russian. Anyways, the movie is pretty bad.

I'm assuming Batman wasn't big at all in Poland before this one, right? Kind of the same in western Europe, superheroes are very much a product of urban American mythology.

Well it's time to sum up last year. TOP 30 ( all in admissions )

1	Lejdis	2 525 366
2	Nie kłam kochanie	1 389 438
3	Kung Fu Panda	1 180 000
4	Mamma Mia!	1 100 000
5	Ã…Å¡wiadectwo	1 010 000
6	Indiana Jones 4	920 000
7	To nie tak jak myślisz, kotku	811 078
8	Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Kaspian	810 000
9	007 Quantum of Solace	773 962
10	Bolt	710 498
11	Asterix at the Olympic Games	682 503
12	Wall-E	650 753
13	High School Musical III	638 166
14	Fly to the Moon 3D	598 643
15	Enchanted	591 337
16	Jeszcze Raz	590 805
17	The Dark Knight	520 000
18	Step Up 2	496 567
19	Horton hears who	424 051
20	Mummy 3	420 340
21	National Treasure 2	415 614
22	Hancock	405 000
23	Alvin and the Chimpmunks	366 523
24	Burn after reading	329 232
25	Rozmowy NocÄ…	319 499
26	I am Legend	312 809
27	Sex and the City	281 423
28	Wyspa Dinozaura	252 896
29	Ranczo Wilkowyje	249 927
30	Wanted	242 264

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Bolt, Bond and few other movies are still being show in cinemas so this are results at the end of the year. Number with 000 at the end are estimates since finish numbers are not available for average person.