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
| Rank | Film (country) | Distributor | Total gross |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside Out 2 (US) | Walt Disney | $56.9m |
| 2 | Despicable Me 4 (US) | Universal Pictures Intl | $43.6m |
| 3 | Deadpool & Wolverine (US) | Walt Disney | $41.1m |
| 4 | Dune: Part Two (US) | Warner Bros | $39m |
| 5 | Moana 2 (US) | Walt Disney | $31.5m |
| 6 | Chantal in Fairyland (Ger) | Constantin Film | $28.5m |
| 7 | School of Magical Animals 3 (Ger) | Leonine Studios | $25m |
| 8 | Mufasa: The Lion KIng (US) | Walt Disney | $20.3m |
| 9 | It Ends With Us (US) | Sony Pictures Releasing | $18.8m |
| 10 | Kung Fu Panda 4 (US) | Universal Picture Intl | $17.5m |
| 11 | Anyone But You (US) | Sony Pictures Releasing | $16m |
| 12 | Venom: The Last Dance (US) | Sony Pictures Releasing | $14.9m |
| 13 | Gladiator II (US-UK) | Paramount Pictures Intl | $13.9m |
| 14 | Bad Boys: Ride Or Die (US) | Sony Pictures Releasing | $12.6m |
| 15 | Wicked (US) | Universal Pictures Intl | $11.9m |
| 16 | A Million Minutes (Ger) | Warner Bros | $11m |
| 17 | The Garfield Movie (US) | Sony Pictures Releasing | $10.1m |
| 18 | Joker: Folie à Deux (US) | Warner Bros | $9.4m |
| 19 | Autumn And The Black Jaguar (Can-Fr) | Studiocanal | $8.8m |
| 20 | The Zone of Interest (UK-US-Pol) | Leonine Studios | $8.6m |
| 21 | The Beekeeper (US) | Leonine Studios | $8.4m |
| 22 | Alter weißer Mann (Ger) | Leonine Studios | $8.1m |
| 23 | The Wild Robot (US) | Universal Pictures Intl | $7.8m |
| 24 | The Fall Guy (US) | Universal Pictures Intl | $7.77m |
| 25 | Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (US) | Warner Bros | $7.71m |
| 26 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (US) | Warner Bros | $7.1m |
| 27 | Alien: Romulus (US) | (Warner Bros) | $6.9m |
| 28 | Godzilla v. Kong: The New Empire (US) | Warner Bros | $6.6m |
| 29 | Smile 2 (US) | Paramount Pictures International | $6.54m |
| 30 | Red One (US) | Warner Bros | $6.53m |
Source: Box Office Mojo
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