Agora Continues to Reign Supreme at the Spanish Box Office

Agora , Alejandro Amenabar’s super-production, continues to lead Spanish box-office rankings after three weeks since its release, taking in more than 14 million euros to-date. It was followed by Flickan som lekte med elden [‘The Girl Who Played with Fire ’], inspired by the best-selling book of the same name by Stieg Larsson, which quickly positioned itself in second place. After a historical epic and a thriller, third place went to The Ugly Truth , a romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler. Behind it, and dropping one place in box-office sales this week was G-Force , which little by little is losing the predominant position it had upon release.

In fifth place was the horror feature film Orphan , the third work as director by the Spaniard Jaume Collet-Serra, who has lived in Hollywood since 1992. And, we find G-Force in yet another position in Spanish box-office receipts, this time the 3D version. Seventh place went to the Hispano-Argentine co-production El secreto de sus ojos [`The Secret in Their Eyes ’] , now surpassing Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds de Tarantino, which has started to lose strength in the rankings after various weeks in the top spots. Woody Allen also drops a place with his Whatever Works , a film with which the most neurotic filmmaker par excellencereturns to New York. Another romantic comedy took ninth place in Spanish rankings: (500) Days of Summer closes out the top ten, along with the film version of Wickie und die starken Manner [‘Vicky the Viking ’] , in tenth place.