People, animals, animation.

And gone is the Bond: The animal animated adventure "Madagascar 2" swept the top agents from the German cinema charts. In the U.S. floppte pretty much every prominent restart - in favor of a shallow Christmas comedy.
  Los Angeles / San Francisco - animals always go? For the animation comedy "Madagascar 2" hits on every case. The sequel to the successful DreamWorks spectacle of 2005 met with German Kinogängern last weekend a nerve: According to preliminary estimates started the new adventures of zebra, lion, giraffe and hippo with 1.5 million visitors - and sat confidently at the top of the cinema charts .
DDPSzene from "Madagascar 2": animation brings fun movie sales

Quite far behind in second place landed after several weeks to rank the one Bond adventure "A Quantum solace" with around 160,000 visitors. With 4.4 million visitors dissolve the 007-thriller, however, "Mamma Mia!" as successful this year launched the film.
Follows in third place with around 90,000 spectators "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", after "Madagascar 2" the second best restart of the weekend. Completes the top five, according to "Focus on Film" by the also newly launched Turkish sci-fi film "AROG" and the durable success successful French comedy "Welcome to the Sch'tis" each with around 70,000 visitors. New to the Top Ten: The Turkish War spectacle "Valley of the Wolves 2 - Muro" and the current U.S. leader "My treasure, our family and I", each with about 50,000 visitors.
Around 2.1 million cinema tickets sparked German spectators at the weekend - a horde of animated animals, thankfully.
Unfortunately for the Punisher
In the United States did in the first five places in the charts as good as nothing. The comedy "Four Christmas" ( "My treasure, our family and I) stayed with a turnover of 18.2 million U.S. dollars - still a minus of 42 percent over the Thanksgiving weekend - in the first place. At least at Christmas time suck Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn So as a cash magnet.
Number two went to the best filming "Twilight - bite the morning," once the 13.2 million U.S. dollars and has been implemented in the U.S. alone 138.6 million U.S. dollars einspielte. Occupies third place Disney animation fun "Bolt - A dog for all eventualities" with 9.7 million U.S. dollars (total: 79.3 million), followed by Baz Luhrmans "Australia" at the weekend seven million U.S. dollars and implemented after 12 days only about 30.9 million U.S. dollars restoring could - little, if bombast and star cast, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman considering. "James Bond: A Quantum consolation" landed with 6.6 million U.S. dollars to place five (total: 151.5 million).
Only at eight square logs, the first reboot of the U.S. weekend: "The Punisher: War Zone", the second adaptation of the comic Rächers from Marvel, started with a meager four million U.S. dollars turnover in 2508 still Cinemas - a real flop, particularly as the thriller still behind in the previous week launched genre colleagues "Transporter 3" (4.5 million U.S. dollars, ranking seven) landed.
Even the Jazz label portrait "Cadillac Records", still with superstar Beyoncé Knowles occupied, is so far no response to excessive response: With 3.5 million U.S. dollars turnover is not yet a blockbuster status in sight, however, the musical also started first in 686 cinemas. Even with the numerous stars equipped independent drama "Nobel Son" floppte with 370,575 U.S. dollars turnover in 893 cinemas.
But what is already cash-turnover when it comes to Oscars goes: Traditionally, the Film candidates around Christmas around with a limited number of copies in the cinemas, the much-needed "buzz" to produce. The politician-portrait "Frost / Nixon" for example, suggested at last weekend not bad and sat around 60,000 dollars - in three New York theaters.