Guardians of the Galaxy: Best in the cinema charts, a record at the Box Office – Spiegel Online

USA

the first Winner of the week

It is finished: “ Guardians of the Galaxy ” on Friday “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” obsolete and has been the film with the biggest sales of the year 2014 at the North American box office. After five weekends, the latest adventure has recorded from the Marvel Universe $ 274.6 million – the weekend came more added 16.3 million, which loosely for first place in the cinema charts before “ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “enough.

the second Losers of the week

The total U.S. theaters complain of a fairly moderate summer. As is fitting that on the weekend the reboots were able to tear a little. The comparatively low produced horror film “ As Above / So Below ” came to be the strongest start after all, still in fourth place ($ 8.3 million), while “ The November Man ” with Pierce Brosnan as ex-CIA man only managed 7.7 million and sixth place.

third Number of week

$ 2.2 million – that’s the lean yield, the “ Sin City: A Dame to Kill for ” at its second weekend in the cinemas earned. That was enough for 14th place in the charts and was with the actual performance of the first week, less than the first part of the comic book movie transposed in one day.

Germany

the first Winner of the week

now shows “ Guardians of the Galaxy ” in Germany, that a well-made comic book movie at the box office even works when the template is relatively unknown. The Marvel success was, according to “Focus on Film” on its opening weekend in the German cinemas 460,000 spectators and is the clear number one

Very strongly showed the German teen comedy “ Medical Play “by Marco Petry, comes as the best reboot with 220,000 visitors in second place, just ahead of the French sleeper hit of the season,” Monsieur Claude and his Daughters “(210,000 viewers).

the second Losers of the week

“Can a Song Save Your Life ” is too quiet created to be a mega-blockbuster, why are 55,000 spectators in its opening weekend for the film with Keira Knightley as a singer not so bad. But more than ninth place should have it pop out already.

third And which movie deserves a second chance?

If the Schiller-film “ The beloved sisters ” deserves an Oscar chance? This is the Academy decide when it comes to the nominations for the Best Foreign Language Film. For German candidates the triangle of Dominik Graf was in any case appointed – 15,000 moviegoers wanted to see him on his fifth weekend: 17th place

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