Germans want to see blood and Bussis.

Bissig, supernatural, handsome - the vampire film "Twilight" evokes the longing for love and immortal then landed on the top of the German cinema charts. The Americans also amused with lighter fare: "The department store Cop" rose to the top of the U.S. charts.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - Fits the 200th Birthday of horror writer Edgar Allen Poe made it with "Twilight - Biss at dawn" a vampire movie to the top of the German film charts. Around 620,000 visitors saw the movie at the launch weekend - in addition to the 125,000 spectators, the adaptation of the eponymous best-selling novel by Stephenie Meyer has already seen in previews. According to "Focus on Film" is
"Twilight" so that the most successful movie rental company in Concord and sets the benchmark for the cinema in 2009 is already very high in mid-January.

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Vampire film "Twilight": The main characters Bella and Edward have liked to bite

In second place is with "Transporter 3" Leaders of the previous week. More than 285,000 fans watched action movie with Jason Statham on. A place behind the action film is the fifth meanwhile result of the horror series "Saw." 230,000 spectators gruselten with "Saw V", a sixth part has already been announced for this year.

In fourth place is the movie "Seven lives" with Will Smith and
Rosario Dawson, the roughly 225,000 viewers wanted to watch. The relaunch of the French drama
"The Class" attracted 20,000 spectators, the cinema. After all, the film won over a school in a French problem areas in the past year, a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and is in the category "Best Film nichtenglischsprachiger" in the Oscar-nominated 2009 awards.

After their mega-success in "Titanic", they are memorable, but gave it only for fifth place: The dream couple Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet wanted 150,000 visitors in the same film adaptation of Robert Yates' novel
"Times of turmoil" see.

In the U.S., the film last week before a backdrop of "Martin Luther King Jr. 'Day on today, Monday. The extended weekend the Americans traditionally use for a visit to the cinema. Thus, the film "The department store cop" with the "King of Queens" star Kevin James is on the top - in 3144 cinemas erspielte "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," says the film in its original form, around 33.8 million U.S. dollars at this weekend. According to "Focus on Film" confirm this good start to the trend of the past week - all the film reboots ran better than was expected by experts.

Is also closely monitored the 3D Movie Revival: How to start the Canadian horror film "My Bloody Valentine 3D" in 1033 cinemas with 3D technology, in addition to the 1501 film in which the film was played conventionally. With 21.9 million U.S. dollars is the thriller's largest 3D start of all time and makes it to third place in the U.S. cinema charts.

Occupies second place Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" with 22.2 million erspielten U.S. dollar in the past week. With modest funding film already generated some 73.2 million U.S. dollars since its launch.

The filming of the life of U.S. rapper Biggi Smalls, Notorious BIG " erspielte 21.5 million U.S. dollars and landed in fourth place, fifth place occupied "Dog Hotel" with 17.7 million U.S. dollars.

Golden Globe-winner "Slumdog Millionaire" clearly benefited from
Price blessing: The film by Danny Boyle erspielte at his best weekend so far 5.6 million U.S. dollars. His biggest competitor in the Oscar awards, "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" with Brad Pitt, meanwhile, cracked the 100-million mark.