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Now director Michael Bay took on the story and brought the battle of two extraterrestrial robot clans to the big screen. According to preliminary figures, around 450,000 viewers saw the war of the “Transformers” on the opening weekend. The action film with Shia LaBeouf and Meagan Fox thus enters the media control cinema charts in second place and relegates “Harry Potter und der Orden des Phönix” to third place.
Only “Die Simpsons – Der Film” had more visitors this week. Just under 600,000 Springfield fans found their way into the cinemas.
Behind Harry Potter, the apprentice wizard from Hogwarts, “Von Frau zu Frau” enters the ranking in fourth place. Almost 93,000 cinemagoers visited the romantic comedy by Michael Lohmann. As a desperate mother, Diane Keaton tries to successfully pair off her youngest daughter Milly (Mandy Moore).
Sönke Wortmann showed the way with “Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen”; Winfried Oelsner follows up with “Projekt Gold – Eine deutsche Handball-WM”. Almost 18,000 visitors experienced once again the winter fairy tale of the national handball team around coach Heiner Brand. That means ninth place for the newcomer.
After ten weeks, the pirates around Johnny Depp say goodbye to the Top 10. “Pirates of the Caribbean 3 – Am Ende der Welt” has so far drawn more than six million viewers into cinemas.