Australian Box Office - 20th July 2017
Leader of the Pack in 2017 Blockbusters in 2017: 13
There continues to be this surge in chicks behaving badly flicks, hey the gals can be complete arseholes just like dudes, with Rough Night being the latest in a trend that is headed downwards. The movie lasted five weeks but could only manage $5 million for Sony, that be slim pickings right there. Naturally Boredwood will keep pumping these things out till they finally realise the goose is cooked and other dopey metaphors. Palace decided that a movie about U.S poet Emily Dickinson was just what the Aussie audience would lap up, the punters thought otherwise with the movie making around $670k over four weeks. Have this feeling we covered Viceroy's House previously, but the movie made $3.5 million, mainly from the retirement end of the market. After six weeks The Mummy finally gave up hope and dropped out of the chart with $10.5 million onboard, quite possibly taking Universal's Dark Universe with it. Considering the next movie in the series is Bride of Frankenstein, I predict a disaster ahead for the studio. Slight tangent here kids, a lot of the horror crowd are calling on fans to support the movie but bad movie is bad movie, why should horror fans support badly made flicks just because they roll around in the murk of the dark genre. We will always support good horror flicks, and that's the message that needs to be sent to the various Studios, not that we'll accept any old crap to support the genre. And finally Babewatch, doing it's part for the women's movement, crashed out with $10 million in the equation, the Hoff has a lot to answer for imho. As expected Christopher Nolan's latest Dunkirk stormed to the top of the table, lodging a fighting $11,220 average over 535 screens for a bow of $6 million. The movie has retreated from projections in a lot of markets but is snatching victory in Australia over the first week's run. Okay so Australia is tracking higher than the formidable North American market but even here will be making a statement if it can push onto blockbuster status. Overall ome of the better movies of the year could end up being one of the biggest disappointments.
Holding down second spot on weekend two Baby Driver was off a slightly disappointing 45% but still managed to lodge $2.5 million which catapulted the total gross
to $8.5 million and in range of breakout hit status. Unfortunately the movie isn't going to blockbuster, but it should still lodge a decent enough total for Sony. Dropping
to third spot Spider-Man: Homecoming lost 57.5% of its market managing $2 million over weekend three. The total gross is now at $22.35 million and growing, which
I guess underlines the acceptance of the third recent incarnation of the web slinger. Personally am getting tired of reboots every couple of years and will still state the
original trilogy was superior to both of the latest interpretations. Guess the Nerd army is going to turn up at anything that has dudes in tight latex, take from that what
you will.
What's Coming Up, if anything
The third movie in the latest incarnation of the Planet of the Apes franchise hits screens this thursday in the form of War for the Planet of the Apes, we getting franchise fatigue yet? While I rocked to the first two movies I'm kind of bored with the idea of the new one and will probably wait for one of those disc sets with all three of the movies happening, and a butt load of extras. Have all the original movies, and yes that Tim Burton thing, but have given the TV show a miss as it sucked. Anyways thinking this flick will rock around $2.5 million, let's see how this one rolls.
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