German box office falls 8% in 2024 but ‘The Zone Of Interest’, ‘Anyone But You’ impress

The total box office at German cinemas in 2024 fell almost 8% year-on-year, according to provisional figures from Comscore.

Overall ticket sales totalled €792.5m, down 7.8% on 2023’s € 859m, while total admissions slipped year-on-year by 7.3% from 87.2m to 80.9m.

This compared to the 23.7% year-on-year increase in box-office takings and 18.5% in admissions that had been posted between 2022 and 2023.

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Walt Disney Pictures’ Inside Out 2 was the year’s most successful new release, grossing $56.9m and garnering 5.7m admissions since its opening week on 678 screens on June 12.  The performance of Inside Out 2 as well as other releases such as Deadpool & Wolverine, Moana 2 and Mufasa: The Lion King ensured Disney again held on to the pole position as the distributor with the largest market share of 21.4%.

Germany was the biggest international territory for Sony’s romanitc comedy Anyone By You, starring Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, which grossed $16.1m.

Leonine Studios’ The Zone Of Interest was the highest-grossing arthouse film of the year. Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning German-language Holocaust drama grossed $8.6m to make Germany the biggest territory for the UK-US indie film that shot in Poland with additional Polish funding. Only A24’s North American release grossed more ($8.7m).

Just outside the top 30, two musical biopics found particular favour with German cinemagoers: Studiocanal’s Amy Winehouse story Back To Black ($6.4m) and Paramount’s Bob Marley - One Love ( $ 5.7m).

Only five of the highest-grossing 30 films in Germany in 2024 were non-US titles. Four were homegrown German titles: the Fack Ju Göhte spinoff Chantal In Fairyland, the third outing of the School of Magical Animals family film franchise, producer Christopher Doll’s directorial debut A Million Minutes, and Simon Verhoeven’s comedy Alter Weißer Mann.

The fifth was Gilles de Maistre’s French-Canadian family adventure film Autumn And the Black Jaguar (known in French speaking territories as Le Dernier Jaguar) released by StudioCanal on February and going on to gross $8.8m. 

One of the biggest disappointments of the year was the underperformance of Constantin Film’s fantasy epic Hagen which grossed just $ 1.2m, despite a budget of $15.4m.

Top 30 films at the German box office

German titles in bold

Source: Box Office Mojo

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