It’s a ‘Mini-on’ miracle: No one can quite explain how it happened, but the yellow rascals are back on top. And that is not the only rise of an “old” movie. Much to the chagrin of some German films and that young adult romance.

Minions 2 – Auf der Suche nach dem Mini Boss (Minions 2 – In Search for the Mini-Boss) climbed back up to the number one spot after slipping in the past weeks and in its tenth (!) week of release. The only explanation pollsters in Germany could come up with was the fact that school started up and exhausted parents wanted to award their kids with what may very well be their third or fourth trip to the movies to see the same beloved film.

Also crawling up one spot from last week is Gesang der Flusskrebse (Where the Crawdads Sing).

After Forever (After Ever Happy) fell to number three, not a huge surprise but the natural order of things if the first two spots had gone to new releases. It pushed Die Känguru-Verschwörung (The Kangaroo Conspiracy) down with it, landing it in fourth place.

The real boomerang here is an aviation one: Top Gun: Maverick, too, flew back up again, one spot precisely from sixth to fifth switching places with Guglhupfgeschwader in its fifth week.

Orphan: First Kill is the only debut film that made it into the top ten this week. This prequel to the 2009 Orphan is directed by William Brent Bell, who already proved a steady hand in the horror film genre with The Boy. In the first film 13 years ago, young Esther, an orphan, systematically drove her new adoptive family insane and turned out to morph into a 33-year-old woman named Lena, In this prequel the filmmakers are entirely focusing on the young Esther. Isabelle Fuhrmann reprises her role. She manages to escape from a psychiatric clinic in Estonia and makes it all the way to America where she pretends to be Esther Albright, the long-lost missing daughter of a very rich family. The supposed parents played by Julia Stiles and Rossif Sutherland fall for it. But the pileup of dead bodies makes them suspicious, and they start fearing for their lives.

Bullet Train is still racing along in eighth place and in ninth and tenth we have another two long-running films that were already out of the top ten charts and made it back in: DC League of Super-Pets and Bibi & Tina – Einfach Anders (Bibi & Tina – Simply Different), respectively.

In Austria, the chart situation is not much different when it comes to the titles, except that they are a bit shaken up: Minions 2 – Auf der Suche nach dem Mini Boss (Minions 2 – In Search for the Mini-Boss) is in the third spot behind Guglhupfgeschwader and After Forever (After Ever Happy). And just like in Germany Top Gun: Maverick made an ascent, her into fourth place. Bullet Train, DC League of Super-Pets, Die Känguru-Verschwörung (The Kangaroo Conspiracy), all held steady in fifth, sixth, and seventh spots. Monsieur Claude und Sein Großes Fest (Monsieur Claude and his Big Party) stayed in eighth, is Gesang der Flusskrebse (Where the Crawdads Sing) slipped to ninth and the horror thriller The Invitation – Bis dass der Tod uns Scheidet rounds out the top ten.