Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Iceland beats 3-D remake of Disney

Mark Wahlberg sneaks in one place: the thriller "Contraband", which is based on an Icelandic film, was in U.S. cinemas successful than the 3-D version of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." In Germany, the French comedy hit "Pretty best friends" conquered the peak.
Los Angeles / Hamburg - "Reykjavik-Rotterdam" said the smuggler Icelandic film, which in 2008 had on the Atlantic island and Premiere in Germany ran only at festivals and on television. Protagonist was Baltasar Kormákur it - but for the remake, which is now advanced to the top of the North American box office, located Kormákur sat in the director's chair and handed the lead to the better-known Mark Wahlberg. my cactus heart
Wahlberg takes over as the star, whose figure a risky job to pay the debts of his brother, now played the "Contraband" thriller titled From Friday to Sunday a $ 24.1 million - expected much more than the rental company Universal had.

So that made it "Contraband" somewhat surprising to also prevent the repetition of the Disney-coup last autumn. At that time, the animation studio had brought as a promotion for the Blu-Ray release a 3-D version of "Lion King" in theaters - and captured the top chart. The three-dimensional version of "The Beauty And The Beast" ("Beauty and the Beast") managed only second place now, but with a respectable $ 18.5 million box office - and because the Monday is a holiday in the U.S. (Martin Luther King Day), the balance could be improved still further.
Behind these two reboots followed by "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol", which deals with the $ 11.5 million of the weekend in second place in the eternal hit the "M: I" has backed films.
In fourth place with "Joyful Noise" is another new addition. In the musical try two contrasting women (played by Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton) to save a gospel choir. Rehearsed with the $ 11.3 million should the makers not be entirely satisfied. Placed fifth in the "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows" with a box office of 8.4 million dollars.
Suffered a severe blow to the Vorwochenspitzenreiter: The horror film "The Devil Inside" 77 percent lost ground against its Vorwochenergebnis - one even for an unusually strong negative horror movies - and fell to sixth place.
Both of the Golden Globe jury as the best film award-winning works are in harmony at number 13 and 14, "The Descendants", which has the industry service Box Office Mojo, according to previously recorded total of $ 47 million, just ahead of "The Artist" (up date, 8.8 million).
More movies, more spectators: first place for "Quite the best of friends"
At last week was the new entry for the French film "Pretty best friends" to place in the German cinema charts quite a sensation, especially the comedy ran only in 159 theaters. However, the number of play sites has almost tripled to 431 cinemas and 468 000 spectators with the touching story of a paralyzed man climbed over his keeper and promptly at number one.Not even the remake of Stieg Larsson Mystery Shake "blindness" is not: The film by David Fincher came with 273 000 viewers in 523 cinemas to restart in second place. The first Swedish film 2009 128.155 visitors wanted to see, know the industry magazine "Focus on Film".
During three and four with "Sherlock Holmes: Playing in the shadows" and follow "RubbelDieKatz" two even longer running films, the number is five back spic and span: the German comedy "Off" by Elmar Fischer and Nora Tschirner featuring attracted 131 000 visitors at.

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