Brad and Cate in seventh heaven.

13 Oscar nominations were for "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button", and also at the German box office make Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett for sensation. On the weekend of the Super Bowls had the Americans on the other hand, desire for action.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - The Germans want romantic love - at least in the movies. With "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" and "Twilight - Biss at dawn" stand
tragic love of two films on the first two places in the German film charts.

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Actor Pitt and Blanchett: With "The Strange Case of Benjamin Button" at the top of the Oscar nominations

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The curious case of Benjamin Button "with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett managed to start his weekend at the same place at the Box Office.

According to "Focus on Film" looked since Thursday some 450,000 viewers in 597 cinemas the film about the tragic life of a man who is born as an old man - and 70 years later as a baby dies.

The vampire romance
"Twilight - Biss at dawn" in the United States with nearly 180 million U.S. dollars a sensational box office success, was also in Germany at its third weekend good. The adaptation of the young people-from Stephenie Meyer's bestseller with 270,000 visitors landed at number two and now controls as the first film of the year on the two-million-visitor mark.

Also in third place, the film adaptation of a successful children's and young people's series: "The wild chickens, and the life", written by Cornelia Funke and brought to the screen by Vivian Naef. 265,000 spectators wanted to see the film.

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"Operation Valkyrie" slipped to its second weekend with 240,000 square dissolved tickets from two to number four from. The Disney animated film "Bolt - A dog for all eventualities" landed with 215,000 visitors on fifth place. Overall, in the past week about 2.2 million cinema tickets sold.

In the U.S., the past weekend devoted to the
Superbowl, the finals of the football season. Traditionally run on the weekend action movies very well. With "Taken" (in the U.S. as "96 Hours" started) confirmed this trend yet another time

The film with Liam Neeson in the role of a safe shooting his father, his daughter from the hands of a girl tugs will liberate Rings, played on the first weekend, according to "Focus on Film" is more than 24.6 million U.S. dollars in 3183 cinemas On. According to CNN were three-quarters of the "Taken" Visitors men.

"Taken" is already the eighth film in this year of more than 20 million U.S. dollars at each startup weekend has recorded.

The runners-up of the U.S. film charts, the comedy "Paul Blart: The Mall Cop." The film "King of Queens" star Kevin James played another 14 million U.S. dollars and is now on a total turnover of 83.4 million U.S. dollars.

Behind it landed "The Curse of the two sisters," the U.S. remake of Korean horror thriller "A Tale of Two Sisters" in 2344 cinemas only 10.5 million U.S. dollars could implement.

In fourth place is the dog comedy "Hotel for Dogs" with 8.7 million U.S. dollars, in fifth place, Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" with 8.6 million U.S. dollars. With a total of 110.5 million U.S. dollars to release the drama is about a Korean War veteran now of TopScorer in the career of Clint Eastwood.

The
Oscar favorite "Slumdog Millionaire" is also commercially successful and played another 7.7 million U.S. dollars. This was Danny Boyle film sensation total of 67.2 million U.S. dollars to implement and is dritterfolgreichste the film in the history of independent film distributor Fox Searchlight.