Australian Box Office - 27th July 2017

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

Blockbusters in 2017:  13

Weekend Box Office - Weekend 30, 2017

No	Movie Title	Distributor	Cinemas	Released	Averages	$ Week	%	$ Total	WIR	LW
1	War for the Planet of the Apes	Fox	441	20/07/2017	$7,384	3,256,241	NA	3,260,977	1	-
2	Dunkirk	Warner Bros	427	20/07/2017	$7,345	3,136,436	-34%	9,875,649	2	1
3	Baby Driver	Sony	328	13/07/2017	$3,301	1,082,692	-44%	9,611,363	3	2
4	Andre Rieu's 2017 Maastricht Concert	Indies	117	20/07/2017	$7,639	893,737	NA	893,862	1	-
5	Spider-Man: Homecoming	Sony	337	06/07/2017	$2,509	845,569	-48%	23,195,369	3	3
6	Despicable Me 3	UPI	256	15/06/2017	$1,360	348,198	-54%	31,586,935	7	4
7	Paris Can Wait	Trans	109	20/07/2017	$1,997	217,717	-36%	724,799	2	6
8	Cars 3	Disney	180	22/06/2017	$915	164,767	-57%	12,785,845	6	5
9	Vekh Baraatan Challiyan	Mindblowing	23	20/07/2017	$6,208	142,774	NA	142,774	1	-
10	Wonder Woman	Warner Bros	132	01/06/2017	$1,007	132,909	-56%	30,916,312	8	7
11	The Beguiled (2017)	Sony	67	13/07/2017	$1,331	89,165	-42%	968,668	3	9
12	Wolf Warrior 2	Indies	18	20/07/2017	$4,502	81,033	NA	81,033	1	-
13	Mubarakan	Sony	30	20/07/2017	$1,968	59,046	NA	59,046	1	-
14	The Black Prince	7 Colors	19	20/07/2017	$3,032	57,616	-28%	186,868	2	13
15	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	Fox	145	29/06/2017	$389	56,418	-64%	5,792,562	4	8
16	A Monster Calls	Sony	56	20/07/2017	$897	50,210	NA	67,544	1	-
17	Transformers: The Last Knight	PPI	84	22/06/2017	$397	33,334	-76%	11,936,215	5	10
18	Vikram Vedha	MKS	9	20/07/2017	$3,574	32,165	-52%	116,749	2	14
19	The House	Roadshow	75	29/06/2017	$428	32,120	-72%	4,285,769	4	12
20	Kiki, el amor se hace	Palace	12	20/07/2017	$2,404	28,848	NA	139,602	1	-

Some seriously amount of changes to the top twenty over the weekend with Walking with Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Planet the first of the casualties. The Imax big reptile flick managed $800k, and kept pre-teen boys happy down in Sydney. In a weird combination of strangeness Fox of all people delivered the latest recreation of Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, one of those novels that is going to get remade again and again till Hollywood implodes under its own weight of Accountant spreadsheets. Anyway the flick managed to kick it to North of $2 million so guess the wine and cheese set were out in force. Meanwhile another movie about Churchill manage $1.7 million, anyone else wondering if movie makers simply can't get away from the old worn out stories. And dark thriller It Comes At Night finally dropped out of the chart with $370k onboard, not bad for Roadshow putting the movie onto the radars of fans throughout the land.

Opening in top spot War for the Planet of the Apes got 441 screens, averaged a solid enough $7,384, which gave a bow of $3.3 million. That would be something below what Fox expected but was a million more than I expected. Given the opening total the latest Ape outing is going to be hard pressed to even notch breakout hit status, guess I'm not the only one experiencing some franchise fatique with the Apes. Expecting I guess a 2.6 multiplier so that would be around $8,466,226. Let's use that as a baseline and check the actual word of mouth and result.

So weekend two saw Dunkirk drop to second spot, but managed a very solid -34% hold earning $3.14 million in the process. Total gross is a tad under breakout hit status, but that should be knocked over pretty quickly. Guess blockbuster is still on the table, but the movie will need a very hard hold next weekend to make us all believers, good opening fortnight however. Meanwhile Baby Driver did a tad worse with a 44% drop on weekend three, earning just north of a million, pushing it's total to $8.4 million. Clearly breakout hit status is still on the agenda but once again another movie that will need some sort of solid hold on weekend four.

What's Coming Up, if anything

Donald Trump threatening to nuke North Korea scary enough for you? The guys incompetent, impeach him already.

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