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BOX OFFICE Germany

Asterix takes gold and Schweiger bronze

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Launched by Constantin last Thursday in German theatres, Asterix at the Olympic Games [+see also:
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claims pole position at the box office for its performance last weekend.

The adventures of the heroic little Gaul, played this time by Clovis Cornillac, who appears alongside Gérard Depardieu in the role of Obelix and Alain Delon in as Caesar (see news), drew 330,000 of the 1.9m viewers recorded this week-end (according to kinozeit).

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This triumph is followed by US film National Treasure: Book of Secrets (325,000 admissions), launched on January 24 by Walt Disney.

Third place at the box office went to German comedy Keinohrhasen [+see also:
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, released by Warner on December 20, 2007. The title began the year in pole position and is currently approaching the 5m admissions mark, having attracted over 270,000 viewers this weekend.

This film directed by and starring Til Schweiger, about an unscrupulous tabloid journalist forced to mend his ways, attracted a great deal of attention last week, because the film industry censorship committee increased the mandatory age for viewers from six to 12 years minimum.

As for auteur films, US production The Kite Runner (released on January 17 by Universal) directed by German-born, Swiss-raised and US-based Marc Forster (who is currently shooting the next James Bond film), garnered 44,000 admissions.

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(Translated from French)

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