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Polar bears, elephants and humpback whales — they are all fighting for the survival of their offspring. Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield travelled around the world for five years and made a documentary film about it. The effort paid off: ‘Earth — The Film’, which entered at number five last week, makes the leap to number one in the media control cinema charts.
After placing fifth on its opening weekend and increasing from 147 to 286 prints, the nature documentary from Universum Film attracted an impressive 350,000 visitors to German cinemas.
The Gauls Asterix (Clovis Cornillac) and Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) have drawn a difficult lot: they must compete in the Olympic Games without their secret weapon, the magic potion. The week’s most successful films, determined by Media Control.
Nintendo’s Wii games console is making the Japanese group’s tills ring. In the first nine months of the financial year ending March 31, net profit doubled to 258.93 billion yen (1.7 billion euros).
After Warner Bros. announced that it would support Blu-ray exclusively from June 2008, the consumer-electronics market shifted strongly toward Blu-ray.
Apple reported first-quarter fiscal 2008 revenue of US$9.6 billion and net profit of US$1.58 billion, compared with US$7.1 billion and US$1 billion a year earlier.
KI.KA celebrated its birthday for a whole year and was rewarded by its viewers with peak ratings: with 16.4%* among three- to 13-year-olds, the channel achieved its highest annual average and increased its market share by almost two percentage points compared with the previous year (14.5%).
In the consumer electronics segment, game consoles are attracting an ever-growing fan base. Based on the weekly panel market, revenue from the associated software rose to €554 million in 2007 – a record figure.
The new cinema year began as the old one ended: “Keinohrhasen” was the most-watched film. Its 588,000 viewers meant first place in the media control cinema charts for the third time.
Whether as a book, in cinemas or on DVD, Harry Potter enchants the masses with his magic. Part five, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” was released on DVD only in mid-November 2007. Just six weeks were enough for the film adaptation of Joanne K. Rowling’s novel to become the most successful DVD of 2007.
According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), prices for Internet use in the 2007 annual average were 5.3% below the 2006 level. Compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, prices for Internet use fell by 4.9% in December 2007. Prices remained stable compared with the previous month.
They went on air together 30 years ago: "Tagesthemen" (ARD) and "heute-journal" (ZDF) have classified and evaluated world events every evening since January 2, 1978.
With a 5.6 percent market share, kabel eins achieved the best result in the channel's history and exceeded the previous year by a full +0.2 percentage points (2006: 5.4 percent).
2007 was the year of sequels in cinemas. No fewer than ten land in the Top 25 of the media control annual charts. The biggest blockbuster was "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" with 7.06 million visitors
With a mix of gripping blockbusters, outstanding show productions, strong afternoon formats and exciting sporting events, ProSieben recorded a clear growth compared with the previous year in the target groups of viewers aged 14 to 49 and 14 to 29.
News channel N24 draws an extremely positive balance for 2007. The channel maintained its leading position in the information segment of the audience market.
ZDF ended December 2007 as market leader. In the end-of-year sprint, the channel was ahead of ARD (13.1 percent), RTL (11.1 percent) and Sat.1 (9.4 percent), with a 13.4 percent market share.
The financial and IT industries experienced a rollercoaster of emotions in 2007. After the US financial crisis cast its global shadow far more strongly than assumed, investors and banks increasingly went on the defensive.
NDR Television remains ARD's most successful third channel in 2007. With a nationwide annual market share of 2.8 percent, the broadcaster maintained first place, followed by WDR Television, which achieved an annual figure of 2.6 percent. Altogether, 10.7 million people in Germany tuned in to the third channel from the north every day during the year now drawing to a close.
In the year now drawing to a close, Sat.1 achieved a market share of 10.6 percent among viewers aged 14 to 49, making it the third-strongest channel in the advertising-relevant TV market (2006: 11.3 percent). Among the total audience (viewers aged 3 and over), the channel achieved 9.6 percent (2006: 9.8 percent).
After a rather sluggish start, Christmas business gave German online retailers a good overall year-end result. With average increases of around 16 percent, sales in the pre-Christmas period are well above the previous year's level.