Pixar takes off - with pensioners and balloons.

Animated films always go, even in 3D: Pixar's "Up", the touching of a pensioner balloon travel to South America, keen on Whit weekend American moviegoers. Germany held the "Illuminati" loyalty.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - A retired, his house to a colorful balloon bouquet depends a daring trip to South America is taking - this geriatric Sehnsuchtsplot be a mass audience? Sure, if it is from Pixar Animation Studios comes also das "Up" (German title: "Top", starting on 24 September), already caused a sensation when he was a few weeks ago that opened the Cannes film festival, now He almost triumphal entry into the U.S. cinemas.

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3D scene from the film "Up" Pixar can even look cool pensioners

68.2 million U.S. dollars set up "according to" Focus on Film "at the Whit weekend and so had the third best start of a Pixar movie ever - behind" Finding Nemo "and" The Incredibles ", but" Wall-E ", the last year with 63.1 million U.S. dollars was started. Even for the recently revived 3D genre marked "up" a peak, because of the 3766 total of U.S. cinemas, where the movie started, 1534 had on 3D technology, at least up to four U.S. dollars Admission higher costs.

On rank two of the North American film charts landed the comedy "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" (German: "Night at the Museum 2"), another family film pfingsttauglicher in the face of the Pixar-offs, however, a decrease of 53 percent his previous sales had suffered, on the second weekend but still 25.5 million U.S. dollars recordings. After ten days the museum fun with Ben Stiller with 105.3 million U.S. dollars already implemented.

Third place went to "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi and his return to pure horror. "Drag Me to Hell" started in 2508 cinemas with 16.6 million U.S. dollars turnover, a decent but not outstanding result for a genre film.

"Terminator: Slavation" was also on the second weekend luckless U.S.: The Prequel to the "Terminator" saga suffered sales slump by 62 percent and played on Pentecost only 16.1 million U.S. dollars one. That is 90.7 million U.S. dollars in eleven days - too little for a franchise-product of this magnitude - in fourth place. J.J. Abrams'
"Star Trek" relaunch, however, enjoys great popularity continues: On the fifth weekend playing the new Enterprise crew again 12.8 million U.S. dollars and is the first film in the U.S.-year charts of the 200-million-dollar threshold is.

No competition for "Illuminati"

In Germany you have to the new "Terminator" still waiting for a few days, so until now the most successful movie of the year will remain the number one:
"Illuminati" is according to "Focus on Film" shortly before the three million visitors hurdle to jump over and drew on Whit weekend alone approximately 450,000 viewers in the cinema - despite the summer weather. Dan Brown films are going well in Germany, the previous film, "The Da Vinci Code - Da Vinci Code", was after the third weekend already 4.2 million cinema-goers gathered.

In second place is tummelt Ben Stiller in "Night at the Museum 2" - and drew on his second weekend 330,000 visitors. Follows in third place with "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends" (original title: "The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past") the first restart of the weekend. With an opulent 320 copies, the romantic comedy with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, however, only some 160,000 viewers. "Star Trek" defends with 80,000 visitors and took fourth place so that the one-million-visitor mark. The comedy "17 Again" with 70,000 spectators formed the bottom of the top five.

The newly launched
Film by Jim Jarmusch, "The Limits of Control", was only slightly more than 20,000 spectators attract.