Çakallarla Dans 8: Şututgart Çıkarması, the eighth film in Murat Şeker’s Turkish comedy series, opened at No. 1 in Turkey over the weekend of 6–8 November with 78,477 admissions and TRY24.3m ($484,000) from 388 screens, according to the tracking service Box Office Türkiye.
That is less than half the opening of Çakallarla Dans 7, which sold 172,514 tickets from 600 screens in December 2024 and still finished second, behind Moana 2. The series still wins weekends; it no longer fills them. Around it, the chart showed Turkish cinema’s year in miniature: fewer tickets than a year ago, sold at much higher prices.
Key facts
- Opening weekend, 6–8 November: 78,477 admissions and TRY24,272,469 ($484,000) from 388 screens, according to Box Office Türkiye
- Against the opening of Çakallarla Dans 7 (172,514 admissions from 600 screens, December 2024): admissions down 54.5% and takings down 24.7%, on 35% fewer screens (FilmBunch calculation)
- CJ ENM released the top two films; its titles sold 151,409 of the weekend’s 259,845 tickets, or 58%
- Market weekend against the same weekend of 2025: admissions down 14.2%, takings up 13.9%, average ticket up 32.8% to about TRY324
- Turkey’s 2026 box office stands at TRY6.35bn ($126.6m) from 25.3 million admissions, already 9.2% above the whole of 2025 in lira
How the weekend split
Cinemas sold 259,845 tickets for TRY84.1m ($1.68m) across 54 films, 11.3% more than a week earlier. On admissions, the market’s own measure, two local CJ ENM releases finished far ahead of the rest.
Gupi ve Gülmeyen Kral, the animated feature that led the previous two weekends, slipped 20.6% to 63,573 admissions in its third. Its 477,227 tickets make it the fourth-biggest Turkish film of 2026 by admissions, and its opening of 136,548 on 23–25 October remains the year’s best for a local film, according to the tracker. Çakallarla Dans 8 started 43% below that mark.
Çatlı 2 lost half its audience in its second weekend, down 50.7% to 18,951. Warner Bros.’ The Cat in the Hat (Şapkalı Kedi) opened fourth with 18,554.
| Rank | Film | Distributor | Screens | Admissions | Takings (TRY) | Total admissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Çakallarla Dans 8: Şututgart Çıkarması | CJ ENM | 388 | 78,477 | 24,272,469 | 78,477 (new) |
| 2 | Gupi ve Gülmeyen Kral | CJ ENM | 348 | 63,573 | 18,735,519 | 477,227 |
| 3 | Çatlı 2 | Global | 285 | 18,951 | 5,599,480 | 81,089 |
| 4 | Şapkalı Kedi (The Cat in the Hat) | TME | 238 | 18,554 | 6,018,298 | 18,554 (new) |
| 5 | Her Şey Ortada (You Can See Everything) | KODA. | 88 | 13,794 | 6,012,695 | 51,469 |
Source: Box Office Türkiye, 6–8 November 2026. Dollar conversions FilmBunch’s, at TRY50.14 to the dollar (ECB reference rates, 9 November).
Ranked by takings, The Cat in the Hat and A24’s You Can See Everything both beat Çatlı 2. The documentary, which has taken $79.4m in North America, did so from 88 screens, at about TRY436 a ticket, 35% above the market average.
A smaller start for the series
Şeker directed from a script he wrote with Ali Tanrıverdi. SugarWorkz, TAFF Pictures and CJ ENM Türkiye produced, and CJ ENM distributes, as it did the seventh film. Şevket Çoruh and Murat Akkoyunlu head the returning cast; Nur Sürer joins the series for the first time. The plot moves the gang to Germany; it was shot in Istanbul, Berlin and Stuttgart.
The opening averaged 202 admissions a screen (screens, not sites: the tracker lists 303 locations), against 288 for Çakallarla Dans 7. The seventh film fell 41% in its second weekend and finished with 647,556 admissions and TRY116.7m. In lira the gap between the openings narrows to 24.7%, because the average ticket rose from about TRY187 to TRY309.
German distributor Kinostar Filmverleih lists the film as coming soon and already offers cinemas its teaser with English, German, French, Dutch and Flemish subtitles. It has announced no release date.
The year so far
Box Office Türkiye’s year-to-date comparison, which covers the first 44 weeks and three days of each year, puts 2026 at TRY6.35bn from 25.3 million admissions. That is 52.2% more money and 23.8% more tickets than at the same point in 2025; the average ticket is up 22.9% to TRY250.74. In lira, 2026 has already passed the whole of 2025 (TRY5.81bn), until now the highest annual total in the tracker’s tables.
Attendance is less flattering. By the same point in 2019, Turkish cinemas had sold 46.6 million tickets, so this year’s audience is about 54% of its pre-pandemic level. All lira figures are nominal.
October followed the same pattern. Admissions rose 17.1% on October 2025 to 1,675,955, while takings rose 65.8% to TRY490m as the average ticket climbed from TRY206.50 to TRY292.35, according to the tracker’s monthly report. Gupi ve Gülmeyen Kral sold 343,916 of those tickets in its first nine days, more than the month’s whole year-on-year gain of 245,229.
Our reading
A CJ ENM release has now led Turkey’s chart for three weekends running, and its two leaders took more than half of this one’s admissions. Yet the eighth Çakallarla Dans drew less than half the seventh’s opening crowd, with ticket prices up by two-thirds. That is the number for anyone pricing the next instalment or a rival Turkish comedy.
The market shows the same split. Against the same weekend last year, cinemas sold 43,108 fewer tickets and took TRY10.3m more. For distributors and exhibitors, the best lira year in the tracker’s tables rests on an audience about half its 2019 size, and prices are doing the work attendance is not. The next evidence is the film’s second weekend: a smaller fall than the seventh film’s 41% would point to a smaller but loyal audience, a steeper one to a series losing its pull.
Sources
- Box Office Türkiye, weekend table for 6–8 November 2026 (week 45)
- Box Office Türkiye, Çakallarla Dans 8 gişenin yeni lideri oldu, 9 November 2026
- Box Office Türkiye, weekend table for 30 October–1 November 2026 (week 44)
- Box Office Türkiye, weekend table for 7–9 November 2025 (week 45)
- Box Office Türkiye, weekend table for 6–8 December 2024 (week 50)
- Box Office Türkiye, Çakallarla Dans 7 weekly box office (6 December 2024 release)
- Box Office Türkiye, year-to-date and full-year comparison tables, checked 10 November 2026
- Box Office Türkiye, Turkish films of 2026, checked 10 November 2026
- Box Office Türkiye, October 2026 market report, 4 November 2026
- Box Office Türkiye, Çakallarla Dans 8: Şututgart Çıkarması film page (credits, locations)
- Kinostar Filmverleih, Çakallarla Dans 8 film page (subtitled teaser DCPs, press stills)
- Birsen Altuntaş, report from the Istanbul gala at Atlas Sineması, 3 November 2026 (Nur Sürer’s first film in the series)
- Yeni Birlik, Çakallarla Dans 8 release and shooting locations
- European Central Bank reference rates, 9 November 2026 (TRY 56.1199 and USD 1.1193 per euro)