Avatar: Fire and Ash has maintained its position atop the Czech box office for the sixth consecutive week, adding CZK 7.15 million to its massive total of CZK 165.5 million ($8.10 million). With modest weekly drops, James Cameron’s epic blockbuster looks to remain atop the local charts for at least the next few weeks; there are no major releases until Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights lands on Valentine’s Day weekend.
The only challenger: Zootopia 2, which came in second over the weekend with CZK 6.04 million to bring its nine-week total to an impressive CZK 130.77 million. The Disney sequel is holding better than Avatar, dropping only 13.1 percent over the weekend, and could surpass it with the lack of new competition on the animated family-friendly front.
Mercy, which finally toppled Avatar: Fire and Ash in the States over the weekend, was an unmitigated bomb in Czechia with just CZK 563,000 to land in at 13th in the charts. The Chris Pratt sci-fi action film took away key IMAX screens from Avatar at Czechia’s only location in Prague, but failed to capitalize on them, earning less than ten percent of the blockbuster sequel locally.
Among other new releases, Czech comedy Šviháci fared much better, earning CZK 3.31 million to land in at third. The lighthearted film stars Martin Pechlat, Tomáš Jeřábek, and Daniel Fischer as a trio of friends and bandmates whose leisurely existence is thrown askew when they’re tasked with taking care of a seven-year-old boy.
Return to Silent Hill was not well-received by critics or fans, but still took in more than three times of what Mercy earned in Czechia, with CZK 1.79 million good enough to chart eighth. The horror sequel from Christophe Gans came in seventh at the U.S. box office over the weekend.
On the back of eight Oscar nominations, Hamnet earned CZK 960,000 to debut in local cinemas in tenth. That wasn’t quite enough to pass A Frozen Rooster (Huevitos congelados), an animated Spanish family film screening locally in a Czech-dubbed version, which earned CZK 966,000 to come in ninth.
Limited screenings of the concert documentary Megadeth: Behind the Mask pulled in CZK 523,000, while advance preview screenings of Princezna stokrát jinak, a Czech fairy tale that opens wide this upcoming weekend, made CZK 446,000.
| # | Title | Week | Gross | Change | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | 6 | 7.15m | -31.3% | 165.48m |
| 2 | Zootopia 2 | 9 | 6.04m | -13.1% | 130.77m |
| 3 | Šviháci | 1 | 3.31m | — | 3.97m |
| 4 | The Housemaid | 2 | 2.74m | -26.2% | 8.01m |
| 5 | Dream Team | 4 | 2.62m | -35.3% | 22.69m |
| 6 | Nuremberg | 2 | 2.04m | -39.3% | 6.46m |
| 7 | The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants | 5 | 1.84m | -26.2% | 20.61m |
| 8 | Return to Silent Hill | 1 | 1.79m | — | 1.79m |
| 9 | A Frozen Rooster (Huevitos congelados) | 1 | 996k | — | 996k |
| 10 | Hamnet | 1 | 960k | — | 1.10m |
| 11 | Marty Supreme | 4 | 805k | -28.2% | 6.87m |
| 12 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Church | 2 | 567k | -64.9% | 2.63m |
| 13 | Mercy | 1 | 563k | — | 563k |
| 14 | Megadeth: Behind the Mask | 1 | 523k | — | 523k |
| 15 | Princezna stokrát jinak | – | 446k | — | 545k |
| 16 | Na horách | 9 | 436k | -46.2% | 24.23m |
| 17 | Sentimental Value | 3 | 337k | -8.6% | 2.84m |
| 18 | The Last Viking | 2 | 317k | -62.1% | 1.60m |
| 19 | Invincibles (Neporazitelní) | 10 | 306k | -20.5% | 18.49m |
| 20 | Rufus: The Sea Serpent Who Couldn’t Swim | 2 | 305k | -57.1% | 1.06m |
