Mario Barth captured last bastion.

The living room and the stadiums in the nation, he has already in the grip, now conquer his stale jokes, the movie theaters: Mario Barths first film "men", with over 600,000 viewers new leader of the German charts. In the U.S. it's like mystic with Nicolas Cage.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - "men" had been the second best start of the year and the best start by a German film in this year. According to "Focus on Film" attracted by Oliver Berben comedy produced with 630 copies of around 630,000 visitors - and has the Constantin hire the best start since "The Perfume", in the autumn of 2007 with one million visitors was up.

Comedian Mario Barth expanded its power sector so that at the cinema, which so far from his bowl jokes was spared. For the most successful DVD could now perhaps even the most successful German film socialize.

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Barth comedians in "men": According to the living rooms, the cinema conquers

Against the men personified joke was not even the Oscar-winner
"Slumdog Millionaire" something, which started at the same time, however, the better copy editing achieved: With only 191 copies in use came Danny Boyle Shakers history from India to 210,000 spectators - in second place in the charts.

In third place is held
"The reader" with 140,000 viewers, followed by another reboot, "The three? - The cursed castle", the 385 copies of at least 130,000 visitors attracted. The predecessor, "The three? - The Mystery of Ghost Island", was yet to 234,491 spectators come, but start with 540 copies. The conclusion of the top five is the U.S. comedy
"Marley & me", once the 120,000 visitors attracted to the cinema.

"Despereaux - The little mouse hero", the newly launched animation adventure from Universal, started on 12th place In 307 cinemas were 40,000 tickets for the family film sold. Overall, the visitor numbers drop, despite the spring on Friday and Saturday compared with the previous week to recover. There were 1.9 million tickets.

Incredibly lucrative

On the American box office, there was a small surprise: The sci-fi thriller "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage in the lead role was heavily advertised on the comedy "I Love You, Man!" (German: "witness wanted!", Launched on April 23) by.

The slapstick by John Hamburg, was of U.S. cult director Judd Apatow ( "Knocked Up") and has produced with Paul Rudd and Jason Segel on two-Apatow regulars - after successes such as "Never again having sex with the ex 'actually a self-goers. But the comedy about the turbulent search for a groom to be a witnesses continued since its launch on Friday in cinemas 2711 only around 18 million U.S. dollars. That is not bad, but just not good enough for the top position.

The went to the first film by director Alex Proyas since "I, Robot" (2004). "Knowing" (Germany starting on 9 April) tells the story of a man (Cage) who discovers a numerical code, which predicts all future disasters. The problem: The code has yet to be deciphered.

Futuristic and mystical in the U.S. is the trend, which demonstrates the success of TV series like "Lost," "Fringe" and "The Mentalist." The sci-fi "thriller" Knowing "continued since Friday cinemas in 3332 to 24.8 million U.S. dollars. In" Twilight "is the second big surprise success for the production company Summit this season.

After "Knowing" and "I Love You, Man" follows in third place until the restart with two Hollywood mega-stars: "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" (Germany start on 30 April) brings the two "Closer" partner Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in a thriller again. The new film "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy has played in 2574 movie theaters but only 14.4 million U.S. dollars one.

Vorwochenspitzenreiter "The hunt for the magic mountain" covered with 13 million U.S. dollars sales in fourth place, followed by the
"Watchmen" at the U.S. box office again to 62 percent the previous week, and after reducing 6.7 million U.S. dollars this weekend, only now, three weeks after launch, shortly before jumping on the 100-million-dollar sales hurdle is.