BERLIN -- German cinema had a tough 2012 but the new year came in with a bang with Matthias Schweighofer's rom-com The Break-Up Man blasting past The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to take the No. 1 spot on the German box office charts this past weekend.
More than half a million admissions -- or just more than one out of every four tickets sold in Germany this weekend -- were for The Break-Up Man, which Schweighofer wrote, produced, directed and stars in. With a total box office of nearly $6.5 million for 20th Century Fox in Germany, The Break-Up Man marks the best start for a German-language film in nearly two years.
The Hobbit -- entering its fifth week in Germany -- came in a distant second with 310,000 tickets sold. Peter Jackson's fantasy epic has ruled over the German box office for the past month and is closing in on a $80 million take for the territory.
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