Finally, some real shakeup in the charts: a German crime comedy kicked the Minions off the top spot, and a US-made action comedy debuted in third place.

Germany’s number one film is Guglhupfgeschwader – to translate this funny dialectic title, one needs to explain: a Guglhupf is a bundt cake, Geschwader means squadron, but the real meaning is found in the story. This is the eighth installment of a hugely successful franchise that centers around country policemen Eberhofer, who in this latest movie has to investigate an explosion at the local casino, where the owner, notorious gambling addict Lotto-Otto has been threatened by his creditors. Unfortunately, Otto’s mother is killed, which adds to the cop’s difficulties. The humor in this film is very local, which explains why it is so successful in Germany and less so in other German-speaking countries. It also helps that it stars Sebastian Bezzel as the policemen, who has a big fanbase in his country.

Minions 2 – Auf der Suche nach dem Mini Boss (Minions 2 – In Search for the Mini Boss) is now in second place in its eighth week.

Bullet Train is the kind of film that audiences love, especially in the summer. A funny high action thriller with megastars. Brad Pitt is Ladybug (the name!) who is tasked with securing a suitcase on Shinkansen, the Japanese express train with the nickname bullet train for its high speed. Traveling at 300 kilometers per hour between Tokyo and Morioka, what Ladybug does not know is that four other contract killers are on the same train: the deadly duo Lemon (Brian Tyree Henry) and Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) as well as Prince (Joey King) and Kimura (Andrew Koji). At every station, yet another professional hitman boards the train and the chaos intensifies. It helps that the film is directed by David Leitch who is responsible for Deadpool 2 and is based on the novel by Kõtarõ Isaka, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, and Logan Lerman co-star, with Sandra Bullock reciprocating for Brad Pitt’s cameo in The Lost City by doing her own in this film. By all accounts, if it weren’t for the German cake comedy and the iron grip of the Minions, this film would be number one. As it is, third place will have to do.

Thor: Love and Thunder and Top Gun: Maverick stuck together as before, just this time slipping two places to four and five. The slide down to sixth does not bode well for DC League of Super-Pets, which only debuted last week.

French comedy Monsieur Claude und sein grosses Fest (Monsieur Claude and his big Party) dropped one spot to number seven, and Bibi und Tina – Einfach Anders (Bibi and Tina – Simply Different) to number eight. Elvis and Jurassic World: Ein Neues Zeitalter (Jurassic World: Dominion) finish out in ninth and tenth place. This means that the two new releases in first and third spot kicked Liebesdings and The Black Phone out of the top ten.

In Austria, the newest release The Owners made it into the top ten of the charts. The British comedy by director Julius Berg stars Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, and Ian Kenny as wannabe robbers who underestimate the two old ladies that they had planned on stealing from. It is also noteworthy that Der Beste Film Aller Zeiten (Official Competition aka Competencia Oficial) with Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz shows strong staying power after months and only being shown in arthouse cinemas in the capital Vienna, on only eight screens with seven in the original Spanish language with German subtitles. Only one theater has the film in a dubbed version.