About Blickpunkt:Film

Blickpunkt:Film

Blickpunkt:Film is the weekly trade magazine for the German film industry, published since 1976 — usually on Thursdays — by BG Germany in Munich. With a sold circulation of 3,850 copies (ISSN 0947-4390), it is the film economy's professional weekly: the reports on current events in the German and international film industry, with the film festivals, the cinema releases, the television events, and the economic changes in the foreground. Under editor-in-chief Ulrich Höcherl, the magazine combines the industry journalism with the industry's data: the cinema charts — the German Top 50 weekly hits, the arthouse Top 10, the distributor market shares, and the international charts — plus the DVD, Blu-ray, streaming, and ratings charts. For the most successful cinema films, the magazine awards the Bogey Award.

Overview

The film industry is the culture business with the box-office accounting: the producers financing the films, the distributors releasing them, the cinemas showing them, and the streamers licensing them. Blickpunkt:Film addresses this industry's professionals with the weekly trade magazine's program: the current events in the German and international film business — the festivals, the releases, the TV events, and the economic changes. The standard sections structure the week: Die Woche (the week), Das Thema (the topic), Das Interview, Kino, TV/Streaming, Produktion, Review, Charts, and Die nächste Woche (next week).

The magazine's data journalism is its distinctive asset: the charts overview the audience numbers and box-office results of the cinema and television evaluations — the German cinema Top 50 of the week (Top 100+ online), the Top 50 of the last 52 weeks, the arthouse Top 10, the Top 3 German films with the visitor averages and the yearly hits, the distributors' market shares, and the international cinema charts from the USA (Top 50), Austria, Great Britain, France, and Spain (each Top 10). The DVD and Blu-ray sales charts, the streaming retrievals, and the ratings complete the data program. The April 2016 relaunch added the digital home-entertainment market to the coverage — accounting for the film value chain changed by the new digital media.

History

Blickpunkt:Film has appeared weekly since 1976 — five decades of the German film industry's chronicling: from the New German Cinema's late years through the 1980s commercial cinema, the 1990s comedy boom, the 2000s internationalization, to the streaming era. The Munich-based trade magazine — published by BG Germany — established itself as the film economy's professional weekly: the industry's news, the release calendar, and the box-office data in the one Thursday package.

The April 2016 relaunch marked the digital turn: alongside the film and television economy, the magazine began covering the digital home-entertainment market — the streaming services, the video-on-demand, the changing exploitation windows — recognizing the film value chain transformed by the new digital media. The Bogey Award deserves its box-office portrait. The magazine's prize for the most successful cinema films honors the commercial triumphs the charts measure: the films that drew the audiences, the distributors that delivered the hits. In the German film industry — where the cultural prestige and the box office often diverge — the Bogey is the trade's own honor: the industry recognizing its market successes. The award's history tracks the German cinema's commercial milestones: the comedy waves, the family-film hits, the occasional German blockbuster breaking the Hollywood dominance. For the distributors, the Bogey is the marketing asset: the trade press certifying the audience hit. For Blickpunkt:Film, it is the brand's annual celebration: the charts' yearly winners crowned, the industry's commercial year in review. The Thursday rhythm structures the industry's week: the magazine appearing as the cinemas change their programs — the new releases opening, the previous week's box office final — the professionals reading the week's account as the next week's releases begin. The "Die nächste Woche" section — the coming week's preview — is the planning tool: the distributors' release calendar, the festivals' programs, the TV events. The five-decade continuity — the weekly appearing through the video era, the multiplex boom, the digital projection, the streaming disruption, and the pandemic closures — makes the title the industry's institutional memory: the bound volumes documenting the German film economy's half-century. In the trade-press landscape — alongside the dailies' media pages and the online portals — the Thursday weekly holds the B2B print position: the curated, the verified, and the counted.

Coverage and Content

Each weekly issue follows the film industry's agenda. Die Woche covers the current events: the industry news, the company changes, and the market developments. Das Thema treats the week's focus: the in-depth background on the industry's key questions. Das Interview presents the industry's voices: the producers, the distributors, the cinema operators, and the creatives. Kino covers the theatrical business: the releases, the box office, and the cinema industry. TV/Streaming addresses the television and streaming economy: the commissions, the licenses, and the platforms. Produktion follows the filmmaking: the shoots, the projects, and the funding. Review covers the films: the trade reviews. Charts delivers the data: the box-office rankings, the market shares, and the home-entertainment figures. Die nächste Woche previews the coming week's releases and events.

The festival coverage — from the Berlinale to Cannes to the German festivals — reports the industry's meeting places: the premieres, the deals, and the awards. The economic coverage follows the industry's structural changes: the consolidation, the funding reforms, and the streaming's impact on the value chain. The charts' data journalism deserves its methodological portrait. The German cinema Top 50 of the week — compiled from the box-office reporting — is the industry's weekend scoreboard: the admissions counted, the grosses ranked, the market shares calculated. The online extension to the Top 100+ and the 52-week Top 50 serve the analysts: the long-tail performance, the holdover strength, the seasonal patterns. The arthouse Top 10 tracks the specialized cinema: the festival films, the auteur releases, the documentary hits. The Top 3 German films with the visitor averages (Besucherschnitt) measure the domestic cinema's health: the per-screen averages revealing the breakout versus the wide-release flop. The distributors' market shares aggregate the competition: the majors versus the independents, the German distributors' standing. The international charts — the USA Top 50, the European Top 10s — contextualize the German market globally. The home-entertainment charts — the DVD and Blu-ray sales, the streaming retrievals — track the value chain's second window. Together, the charts are the film economy's statistics office: the numbers behind the narratives.

Organization and Ownership

Blickpunkt:Film is published by BG Germany in Munich. The editor-in-chief is Ulrich Höcherl. The weekly trade magazine — ISSN 0947-4390, sold circulation 3,850 copies — operates as the film industry's B2B weekly: the Thursday publication rhythm serving the industry's week.

Commercially, the magazine follows the B2B trade-press model: subscriptions from the film industry's professionals — the producers, the distributors, the cinema operators, the TV and streaming executives — and advertising from the industry's suppliers and the film marketers: the distributors advertising their releases, the festivals, the service providers, and the technology companies. The charts and the Bogey Award give the brand the industry authority that sustains the model: the trade press that measures the industry's success.

Digital Presence

The brand's digital home is blickpunktfilm.de, the portal carrying the industry news, the charts, and the magazine content — with the online charts extending the print Top 50 to the Top 100+ and the 52-week rankings. The e-paper serves the digital weekly readers. The portal's daily news flow complements the Thursday print rhythm: the current events between the issues.

The digital strategy follows the trade-weekly logic: the print Thursday for the curated industry week — the news, the interviews, the reviews, and the charts — the portal for the daily news and the extended chart data. As the film industry's weekly — from the 1976 founding through the 2016 digital relaunch to the streaming present — Blickpunkt:Film remains the film economy's professional medium: the week's events, the box-office data, and the Bogey honors — weekly in print on Thursdays, daily on blickpunktfilm.de.