Australian Box Office - 13th July 2017

Leader of the Pack in 2017
Beauty and the Best (2017)
$47,852,983

Blockbusters in 2017:  12

Weekend Box Office - Weekend 28, 2017

No	Movie Title	Distributor	Cinemas	Released	Averages	$ Week	%	$ Total	WIR	LW
1	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Sony	621	06/07/2017	$7,926	4,922,074	-50%	18,987,770	2	1
2	Baby Driver	Sony	412	13/07/2017	$10,867	4,477,201	NA	4,737,717	1	-
3	Despicable Me 3	UPI	421	15/06/2017	$7,184	3,024,219	-26%	29,552,759	5	2
4	Cars 3	Disney	320	22/06/2017	$4,810	1,539,034	-20%	11,765,695	4	3
5	Wonder Woman	Warner Bros	237	01/06/2017	$3,406	807,320	-34%	30,168,975	7	4
6	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	Fox	266	29/06/2017	$2,997	797,463	-11%	5,327,933	3	6
7	Transformers: The Last Knight	PPI	259	22/06/2017	$2,185	566,086	-44%	11,558,751	4	5
8	The Beguiled (2017)	Sony	70	13/07/2017	$6,090	426,330	NA	530,892	1	-
9	The House	Roadshow	212	29/06/2017	$1,714	363,247	-59%	3,987,786	3	7
10	My Cousin Rachel	Fox	100	08/06/2017	$911	91,034	-23%	1,894,471	6	11
11	Jagga Jasoos	Mindblow	29	13/07/2017	$3,133	90,853	NA	90,583	1	-
12	It Comes At Night	Roadshow	39	06/07/2017	$2,235	87,161	-34%	294,884	2	10
13	Rough Night	Sony	83	15/06/2017	$1,033	85,782	-52%	4,848,837	5	8
14	Churchill	Trans	64	08/06/2017	$1,328	85,002	-19%	1,534,373	6	13
15	Wukong	Mindblow	18	13/07/2017	$4,351	78,310	NA	78,310	1	-
16	A Quiet Passion	Palace	30	22/06/2017	$2,175	65,233	-32%	666,162	4	16
17	Viceroy's House	Transmission	51	18/05/2017	$1,176	59,999	-4%	3,365,410	8	19
18	Lady MacBeth	Sharmill	27	29/06/2017	$2,181	58,885	-40%	411,279	3	15
19	The Mummy	UPI	56	08/06/2017	$917	51,330	-70%	10,316,630	6	9
20	Baywatch	PPI	41	01/06/2017	$1,075	44,100	-60%	9,964,402	7	12

So we finally got the end result on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and that would be a mixed up final statement. After seven weeks of disappointing the swashbuckler scored around $14.8 million, which isn't a disaster as some expected, but equally doesn't deliver a statement that the franchise should set sail again. Not too sure what Disney make of this result, but overall I'm pretty cool with it, which doesn't mean I would be excited by yet another movie involving Johnny Depp in silly outfits. Seems we are in the age of movies highlighting misogynist self involved rappers, apparently they get a pass by the PC crowd cause they are black and stuff, which brings us to All Eyez on Me which highlights Tupac Shakur. The movie bounced $3.7 million, which I guess Roadshow will be happy with, but didn't have the impact of Straight Out Of Crompton, though it does explain where the Bogans got the idea of how to name their kids with inane jumbles of words. I can dig rap fans getting all excited about these flicks, but seriously not into the genre and really don't care, what's next a flick on Vanilla Ice?

For the second weekend in a row Spider-Man: Homecoming held down top spot, which it needs to do if the movie wants to threaten top grosser of the year and equally to hold up in the face of a bunch of tent pole flicks coming in the next few weeks. Over the weekend the movie dropped 50% but still grossed just under $5 million which brought total gross to just under $19 million. Clearly $30 million isn't going to be a problem from here, fingers crossed the web slinger can go a lot more and really threaten the top end of the yearly chart.

There has been a fair amount of anticipation for Edgar Wright'd latest and Baby Driver delivered for Sony. The movie opened on 412 screen and was well past robust with a $10,867 average driving the bow of $4.5 million. Clearly another breakout hit on the way and the possibility of a blockbuster if the movie can deliver some strong holds through the next few weeks. After three weeks in the top three Despicable Me 3 is still going strong with a -25.7% hold and a further $3 million in the bank, which now stands at a tad over $29.5 million. Another couple of solid weeks might just see Gru and team threating top grossing spot.

Week two saw It Comes At Night holding steady at -33.8% adding $87k to the running total which is now limbering up to something post $300k. Clearly the movie is on very limited release but did add an additional 5 screens as Roadshow put faith into the heavily independant feature. Okay anyone else not yet expecting something out of the ordinary from here? Timmy Cruise's latest vanity piece, it didn't start out that way, is still in freefall on weekend six with a -69.8% implosion. The dear Mummy movie did manage to breach $10 million, which is some sort of a result, but things are not going to overly improve from here.

What's Coming Up, if anything

Do I look fat in this outfit?

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