The German field workplace flatlined for the primary six months of this yr.
Cinema takings elevated by simply 0.1% to €371.1m for the primary half of 2025, in comparison with €370.8m for a similar interval in 2024, in keeping with information collated by Comscore/Rentrak Deutschland.
The variety of tickets bought to July 2 fell by 3.3% from 37.8 million to 36.6 million, though a rise within the common ticket value from €9.80 to €10.14 helped to make up for the downturn in admissions.
The figures present the German field workplace nonetheless stays effectively beneath its pre-pandemic highs. Within the first six months of 2019, the field workplace stood at €430.7m from 49.1 million tickets bought.
Highs and lows
Walt Disney led the sphere of distributors with a market share of 26% with its high launch, Lilo & Sew, the second largest movie of the primary half.
The primary movie for the interval was Warner Bros.’ A Minecraft Film which is the one title up to now this yr to be offered with the Golden Display screen Award by the exhibitors’ affiliation HDF for passing the three million admissions mark.
Its takings of over €34m made the German market probably the most profitable territory after the US and UK and contributed to Warner’s general market share of 20.2% for the six months.
Numerous releases didn’t fulfil distributors and exhibitors’ expectations: Warner’s vampire film Sinners posted takings of €3.2m, which was in stark distinction to the leads to the UK (€19.4m) and France (€7.7m), whereas the newest in Common’s How To Practice Your Dragon franchise might solely muster round €9m in field workplace in comparison with greater than $18.9m on the UK field workplace.
The shock success of the primary six months got here with Tobis Movie’s launch of the Steve Coogan comedy drama The Penguin Classes whose €4.1m takings have been the best for all territories worldwide. This was forward of the UK’s results of €4m and considerably greater than the €3m ($3.3m) posted for the US home launch.
Native German movies, although, have been having a tough time luring cinema-goers: two 2025 releases – Karoline Herfurth’s Wunderschöner and the household movie Die Drei ??? Und Der Karpatenhund – and Constantin Movie’s comedy Der Spitzname, which opened shortly earlier than Christmas, have been the one titles to determine within the High 20 box-office listings.
German movies’ market share at 15.8% within the first half of 2025 is the bottom for the final six years, excluding 2022’s 12.9% when cinemas have been nonetheless recovering from widespread closures as a result of pandemic.
The trade’s hopes are actually pinned on movie releases in the course of the second half of 2025 to present an upswing to the field workplace’s efficiency and produce the ultimate tally on the finish of the yr close to to the 90 million complete admissions posted in 2024.
July has already begun promisingly with Jurassic World: Rebirth, which took over €12.8m in its first two weeks.
Different potential blockbusters embrace Walt Disney’s The Incredible 4: First Steps and Constantin Movie’s Das Kanu Des Manitu, the hotly anticipated sequel of Michael Bully Herbig’s Western parody Der Schuh Des Manitu seen by over 11 million cinemagoers in Germany in 2001, Leonine Studios’ fourth and closing instalment of the Faculty Of Magical Animals household movie franchise, and Disney’s end-of-year launch of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fireplace And Ash.
High 10 Movies at German field workplace (Jan-June 2025)
1. A Minecraft Film (Warner), €34.7m
2. Lilo & Sew (Disney), €26.5m
3. Mufasa – The Lion King (Disney), €16.7m
4. Mission Inconceivable – The Closing Reckoning (Sony/Paramount), €15.9m
5. Paddington in Peru (StudioCanal), €13.3m
6. Wunderschöner (Warner), €13.2m
7. Moana (Disney), €10.5m
8. Die Drei ??? und der Karpatenhund (Sony), €9.4m
9. Captain America: Courageous New World (Disney), € 9.2m
10. Thunderbolts* (Disney), €7.8m
Supply: Comscore/Rentrak Germany, Jan 2-July 2, 2025
