Australian Box Office - 26th October 2017
Leader of the Pack in 2017 Blockbusters in 2017: 15
After seven weeks scaring up the sort of movie goer that simply follows the newest brightest thing It dropped off the chart like a slasher villian going down for the final time. The movie cracked a solid $23.6 million, which pretty much takes out the top grossing dark genre title for the year. Battle of the Sexes revolved around world number one tennis player Billie Jean King being taken on by huckster Bobby Riggs, in a tennis match no one really gave a crap about beyond the feminists. While the movie had Emma Stone, it also had Steve Carell, which could explain the poor result of $2.5 million and the fact that word of mouth was poor. Meanwhile yet another dumb arse lego movie landed this year with The LEGO Ninjago Movie having a five week run for a $5.4 million total gross, which is well done considering we are talking a movie about animated blocks. Which sums up the punters watching this shite, blockheads. I don't even want to talk about Never Say Die, a Chinese body changing movie that simply follows the same old same old of the sub genre, a $600K result deserves a mention, but can we now never mention it again. Naturally another movie in the Marvel superhero universe so naturally a number one blockbuster on its way. Thor: Ragnarok opened in top spot over the weekend earning a mega $10.1 bow as every post was made a winning. Disney opening the movie on a massive 781 screens, average a well above average $12,978 to almost guarantee a blockbuster in two to three weeks. Yes I know, current flavour of the month, show some dude wearing his daks outside his pants and the nerds and "chick to be nerd" are rushing cinemas. I reckon this one will hit $25 million as the sheep flock to the still strong genre. Holding onto second spot surprisingly Blade Runner 2049 was off -68.3%, demonstrating the slight low we are currently in box office wise. Unfortunately the big SciFi release could only muster $558K over the weekend, and looks destined to finish somewhere post $12 million; which to be honest will be far less than distributor Sony were hoping for start of year. Seems the reviews have been solid enough but the punters haven't been showing up to back up the movie's growing reputation. After a great first weekend disaster flick Geostorm imploded by -68.3%, dropping to third spot on the chart in the process. The movie managed to maked $497K over the weekend, which is definitely pushing the total toward the passing mark. Total gross now stands at $2.4 million, with a definite shot at $3 million on the dance card. Weekend three and Happy Death Day dropped -59% as tge screen count started to decline in a meaningful way. The movie did manage to slice up $332K, which is enough to pus.h things NOrth of $3 million, total gross now standing at $3.1 million. The movie has entered the top ten dark genre realm, but any further rise in the peeking order is unlikely.
The bodies are starting to mount up and all clues point to John Kramer aka Jigsaw, only problem being John died a decade ago. Looks like someone else wants to play a game! Was really hoping this franchise had seen it's last death trap but guess the gorehound and bogan demographics are going to be enough to keep it rocking till the end of time and beyond. Thinking we might see $1.5 opening weekend as fans turned out for elaborate deaths and every rule ever created in the first two movies being increasingly broken by dumb arse plot requirements. So figure $3.7 million total growth.
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