Australian Box Office - 16th February 2017
Leader of the Pack in 2017 Blockbusters in 2017: 3
In one of those surprise weekends, where did all the "past their useby date movies" come from, Patriots Day simply collapsed over weekend three. The movie staggered to $2.6 million over the three weekends but simply lacked the pull for demographics outside those Bogan elements that love them some American propaganda flick. Guess someone might grab this one on disc but honestly probably be forgotten by the time I finish this week's box office report. Studiocanal sort to shake the established order up with animated flick Ballerina, but pretty much ran into a brick wall with a $4.5 million result. Some problems for the third tier Distributor came in the form of the movie being a French Canadian effort, lack of star firepower, and the subject matter really not addressing male sandpit demographics. Disaster of a result for the genre with a substandard earn over five weeks. Studiocabalk also pushed Gold onto the movie going public who remained uninterested in the whole deal. The movie lasted a couple of weeks, made $900k, and has since already disappeared from memory. Even on a slow movie weekend this one wasn't going to float anyones boat. Why Him? earnt $11.5 million which was well under my expectations to be honest, and no doubt Fox will remain unimpressed. The movie lasted seven weeks and played mainly to the date crowd with the expected Female demographics not supporting the movie, I would have thought this sort of thing would appeal to teens, but hey there you go. No doubt some action on post cinema channels will go down however. Palace took it upon themselves to release Italian movie Perfect Strangers, which revolves around seven friends sharing every text message, email, and phone call they have received over dinner, sound riverting stuff. Anyways the movie cracked a million over three weeks, but really anyone interested? Roadshow decided everyone wanted to see a story of a African-American gay guy growing up in the tought streets of Miami, we didn't and Moonlight staggered to a $800k result and oblivion. Fox knocked off top spot with Hidden Figures, a film about three black chicks who help NASA at the start of the U.S space program with the mathmatics. The movie opened on 267 screens averaging a solid $17,865 for a bow of $4.8 million. Thats got to be a hell of a lot more than Fox were expecting and clearly the PC crowd were all over this one. Okay my thoughts are that this movie is pretty much front end load and it won't make the $10 million mark, but hey since when was I anything like a decent box office guru.
Weekend two saw Fifty Shades Worser off by -50% as chicks continued to dig into softcore porn, which is now apparently okay with Boredwood, guess it makes a change from
unmitigated streams of violence. Anyways the flick, that your non-quote whore Critics are rightly labeling as even worse than the original, managed to earn $3 million taking total
gross to $14.3 million. It wouldn't surprise me if this one does rock blockbuster status in due course as the ladies are hitting this in droves. Of more interest to us in the
top three was new release The Great Wall that notched an opening $3 million bow as things proved very competitive at the top of the chart. UPI opened the historic
movie on 245 screens and would have been more than happy with the $12,108 average they scored. With the movie already above $3.5 million we could perhaps be viewing a solid enough
breakout hit.
What's Coming Up, if anything
Right back into the pure horror releases with Rings hitting screens Downunder next weeekend, albeit being released by PPI and not one of the major Distributors. Okay so the last movie in the franchise The Ring 2 (2005) wasn't that well received, though I kind of enjoyed it, so I wasn't entirely sure this was going to be a good idea. Reports out of North America weren't promising, but hey bandwagons etc, so I'm pretty much expecting a bad result here. Guess around a million opening weekend and then a heavy drop before tailing off at under $2 million. Kids become involved with the cursed tape, seven days etc, however this one holds the promise of something slightly more interesting with the discovery of a "movie within the movie" that no one has seen previously.
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