Box office and Sherlock Holmes solves the mystery funds not

Confidently jumps "Sherlock Holmes: playing in the shadow" on top of the U.S. box office. but the box office is weaker than expected, the cinematic year 2011 continues to be disappointing. Hope makes "Mission: Impossible 4", but in Germany of the "Puss in Boots" was defeated.

a trio of stories should ideally continuations introduced at the weekend leading North American cinema from the vale of tears - that was the plan for the two weakest weeks of the year. but two of the three films met the expectations set for them not - and the third is not yet decided how the very large mass it takes.

on square one in the us and canada is, as expected, "Sherlock Holmes: a game of shadows" (German title: "sherlock holmes: playing in the shadow"). But while the first movie with robert downey jr as masterful detective and as a faithful Jew dollar law partner watson 2009 or 62.3 million grossed, came the second "Sherlock Holmes" film of the modern era to a disappointing 40.02 million - the film studio Warner Bros. . had the "los angeles times", according to 55 million more expected.

also the number two weakened: the third cartoon adventures of the fictional music group Alvin & the Chipmunks, "chipwrecked" titled, came to a cash turnover of 23.5 million dollars (including a 3-d supplement) - the two previous film had recorded about twice as much .

with two runners who remain behind such expectations can also pan the balance of the weekend only to be disappointed. dollar to about 119 million estimated cash receipts of all the hollywood.com movies - year 11.6 percent less than the corresponding weekend before one. the chief analyst of the industry service, dergarabedian paul believes that will be sold at the end of the year less than 1.3 billion tickets - that would be the lowest paying audience since 1995.

but perhaps can even "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (in German cinema as a "mission: impossible - phantom protocol") help up the balance: the action film with Tom Cruise in the lead role was in the United States at first cinemas in just 425 ( for comparison: the first two movies were the charts in more than 3700 sites click), 300 of which were IMAX theaters. allowed viewers to see the candy as an additional 44 selected cinemas in a six-minute trailer for the advance until the next summer incipient film "The Dark Knight Rises".

All these extras should serve the theatrical release of the fourth "Mission: Impossible" films make for the event - a strategy that worked apparently: with 13 million dollars is "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" already on the third space of the North American cinema charts - and the really big bonus is only the next weekend, is where the movie cinemas in smaller start throughout the country.