"Up" remains on top.

Pixar in flight: The animated film about a sprightly pensioner and his balloon trip will remain in the U.S. cinemas Leaders - and held Will Ferrell comedy star in chess. German cinema-goers range between Illuminati, teen stars and terminators.

 

Hamburg / Los Angeles - Only 35 percent of its sales start loving lost Pixar animated film "Up" at the weekend in the U.S. - and was, according to "Focus on Film" with 44.2 million U.S. dollars undisputed box office number one box-office charts.

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A scene from Pixar's "Up": With colorful balloons to rise

It was the competition did not even small: The bachelor party comedy "The Hangover" had no stars and because of extreme Zotigkeit an R rating, but on Friday in the daily reports of cinemas ahead. Ultimately it was not enough to Pixar to come from the throne: 43.3 million U.S. dollars of the men played fun by director Todd Phillips ( "Starsky & Hutch") in 3269 cinemas On.

At number three landed Brad Silberling comedy adventure "Land of the Lost" (German: "The almost forgotten world"). In 3521 cinema starts, put the spectacle with star comedian Will Ferrell, but only to around 19.5 million U.S. dollars - the first true flop movie of the summer in the U.S.. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" ( "Night at the Museum 2") follows to rank four with 14.6 million U.S. dollars on the third weekend.
"Star Trek" decide the top five with 8.4 million U.S. dollars on the fifth weekend (total: 222.8 million U.S. dollars - and thus the most successful movie of the year in the U.S.).

"My Life in Ruins," a romantic comedy with "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" star Nia Vardalos, launched with 3.2 million U.S. dollars turnover and slipped it just barely in the Top Ten: ninth place.

In Germany, meanwhile, dominate those terminators, in the U.S. are not so successful as was initially expected. And here is also noticeable that
a Terminator movie without Arnold Schwarzenegger is no longer quite as attractive. While crowds since the early start on Wednesday about 600,000 viewers in 180 million U.S. dollars expensive
Action spectacle "Terminator: Salvation" with Christian Bale, but the third part of the Saga, then still with Schwarzenegger, was a solid million visitors started in German cinemas.

Behind the set
"Illuminati" their campaign through cinemas continued. The Dan Brown adaptation was the weekend as the first title of the current year the global box office barrier of 400 million U.S. dollars and drew in Germany alone again to 330,000 visitors (total: 3.5 million).

The third in the league front-runner is already on the last Monday launched Teenie spectacle "Hannah Montana - the movie." The singing, sounding cinema vehicle for U.S. superstar Miley Cyrus was from Thursday to Sunday in 508 cinemas to 320,000 visitors, but has since Monday already about 500.000 fans lured into the cinema.

"Night at the Museum 2" adheres to rank four and could, with 320,000 spectators almost identical numbers as presented on Vorwochenende. Fifth place went to the romantic comedy "The Womanizer - The Night of the ex-girlfriends," the once 120,000 visitors gathered in the cinema. No more rebooting made it into the top 20 A total of two million tickets, a slight increase over the last few weeks.