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BOX OFFICE Spain

The Impossible Spanish box office’s second greatest hit ever

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- Juan Antonio Bayona’s second feature has recorded a brilliant €40m in Spain, and is preparing for its release in cinemas worldwide

European films are breaking records at the box office. While today we published that the latest James Bond film, Skyfall [+see also:
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, has become all-time box office number one in the United Kingdom (read more), this weekend Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Impossible [+see also:
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film profile
]
became the second most successful film ever at the Spanish box office, with a total of over €40m and 5.6 million spectators.

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Curiously, Skyfall and The Impossible have both had to contend with the same film, Avatar. In the United Kingdom, James Cameron’s American super-production has given up its place to the latest Bond film, but the film's €74.5m in earnings in Spain are still well out of reach for The Impossible, which was released on October 11.

Bayona’s second feature, produced by Apaches Entertainment and Telecinco Cinema and distributed in Spain by Warner Bros España, was number one at the box office for five weeks until Breaking Dawn - Part 2 took its place at the end of November.

After its impressive performance at the Spanish box office, The Impossible has started its international release in the country in which its story is set, Thailand (in first position), and in France, where it made €2.37m in two weeks. On December 21 it is to be released in the United States by Summit Entertainment and, according to the rumours, could well be a contender at the Oscars.

At the end of the year, the film is to be released in Estonia, Belgium, Iceland, and Slovenia, while between January and February 2013 it will be the United Kingdom and Ireland’s turn (the film is to be distributed by E1 Entertainment in both countries), Greece, Norway, the Netherlands (Independent Films), Portugal, Italy (Eagle Pictures), Germany (TMG), the Czech Republic, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden (Nordisk Film, as in the other Nordic countries).

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(Translated from Spanish)

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