Bulgarian Boxoffice Update - Weekend 21-23 October

Better stay at home, Shmenti Kapeli's virus is on the loose

After I skipped the boxoffice commentary last week, this time around we should start with a celebration of the popularity of Bulgarian title Shmenti Kapeli. The latter decreases 11% for the weekend, but it is enough to remove The Three Musketeers from the top and to return there for a second week. The film of Vladi Vyrgala has made the excellent BGN 463,117 so far.

Thus, the musketeer adventures fall to #2, with a decrease of 29%. The movie has collected BGN 211,627 - a strong but somewhat disappointing result.

Continuing its "so so" performance at #3, Real Steel goes down 31% and has BGN 269,443 so far.

Showing that not every Nicolas Cage movie is a hit in Bulgaria, his latest excuse for a film, Trespass, debuts with BGN 30,033 for the weekend. In comparison, Season of The Witch from the start of the year started with BGN 59,052.

A place behind, the second new release of the week, Contagion, enters with BGN 25,112, an expectedly mediocre result due to the film grim premise. In addition, many Bulgarian critics (yes, I know there are none out there) felt appalled by the realism displayed on the screen, so the word of mouth was in the negative zone.

At #6 The Smurfs, which believe me doesn't stand repeat viewings, registers an increase of 11% and boasts the smurfantastic BGN 1,011,428 so far. Killer Elite follows close behind, with a fall of 43% and the great total result of BGN 428,243.

Spy Kids 4 is at #8, with BGN 200,631 - too much for its quality but too low having in mind the preferences of the cinemagoers in Bulgaria.

Cementing the zero popularity of horror flicks here, The Thing remake/prequel crashes at #9 with BGN 12,270. It could have been worse though.

The top ten is rounded by another Bulgarian title as The Island plummets 64% and has BGN 51,227 so far.

Three films go out of the top ten led by Johnny English Reborn with its respectable BGN 283,932. Thus the second adventures of Rowan Atkinson's spy have surpassed by far the USD 73,212 final result of part one. US flop Dream House retreats with BGN 63,403, while the much superior Crazy, Stupid, Love has earned the almost identical BGN 80,923.

Next weekend's projections:

Kecove/Sneakers (Bulgaria) - BGN 80,000
In Time - BGN 50,000

(BGN 1 = USD 0.71 = EUR 0.51)