Clawed Wolverine, the box office.

Good cut: The action-packed comic filming "Wolverine" with Hugh Jackman had the best start so far this year at the U.S. box office. In Germany, too, opted for the spectators krallenbewehrten mutants. This was after seeing Julia Roberts.

 

Los Angeles / Hamburg - real fans look no unfinished pirated copy on the computer to real fans go to the cinema. This summary could be starting from the furious draw the comic adaptation "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" at the weekend in the U.S. and Germany.

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Scene from "Wolverine" (with Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber): impressive start to the summer season

87 million U.S. dollars played
Action movie with Hugh Jackman in the lead last weekend in American cinemas in 4099 - and made the Marvel production according to "Focus on Film" to the film's most successful start of the year. In Germany around 400,000 spectators wanted the background to the claws with metal reinforced mutants see Logan.

Of course, one could speculate whether "Wolverine" an even better start would result, if this is the one month before the published start movie piracy on the Internet did not exist. But just as well can only speculate how many Americans at the weekend, the multiplex cinema for fear of the swine flu virus have shunned - and sales also pushed down.

Overall, one can at 20th Century Fox and Marvel very satisfied: "Wolverine" cut better than the first two "X-Men" films between 2000 and 2003, only the third part of the series, "The Last Stand", played 2006 on a four-day weekend 122.9 million U.S. dollars is only slightly more than the latest offshoot of the franchise.

The runners-up the American charts landed the romantic comedy "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" ( "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends"). The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner put 15.3 million U.S. dollars in 3175 to movie theaters.

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"X-Men Origins: Wolverine"
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Vorwochenspitzenreiter "Obsessed" landed with 12.2 million U.S. dollars revenue in third place (after ten days of total sales: 47 million U.S. dollars).

In fourth place, the comedy "17 Again" with Teen Star Zac Efron to 6.3 million U.S. dollars, while the hitherto strongest American film of the cinema year, slowly but surely from the leading group passed: "Monsters vs.. Aliens" played on Rank five have yet to times 5.8 million U.S. dollars and has a turnover reached 182.4 million U.S. dollars.

In German cinemas made "Wolverine" also caused a sensation, but had sunny weather with which to fight. With 400,000 spectators said in 691 cinemas remained the "X-Men" episode clearly behind "X-Men: The Last Stand" (680,372 visitors) and "X-Men 2" (893,412 visitors) back.

Besides the sun, there was little competition: Tony
Gilroys thriller "Duplicity - Common Secret Thing" came despite largely good reviews and star cast with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen with a modest 80,000 spectators in 272 cinemas only in second place.

It landed long-running "Slumdog Millionaire", at its seventh weekend in German cinema, not only placed third, but even with 75,000 Kinogängern back to viewers, respectively (total: 1.5 million visitors).

Reboot "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" has started strong with 75,000 viewers in 311 cinemas. "Crank 2: High Voltage" occupied with 70,000 spectators five. "Phantom pain", the new comedy with Til Schweiger, came in 141 cinemas only 25,000 visitors. The slight increase in ticket revenue to 1.2 million benefited especially "Wolverine".