Australian Box Office - 2nd November 2017
Leader of the Pack in 2017 Blockbusters in 2017: 15
About the only movie of note dropping out of the chart over the weekend was The Foreigner, another martial arts flick starring Jackie Chan. Roadshow were across this one and had a return of a three week run and $670K in the bank. Guess the main idea here was to get the name of the movie out to the public, which the movie probably achieved with little to no problems for those wanting to check out the Kung Fu fighting. Well it only took two weeks but Thor: Ragnarok delivered on yet another blockbuster for the House of Mouse and the Marvel Universe. Thor droppped -34.3% over weekend two, which is acceptable given the massive opening weekend, earning a sensational $6.68 million on the movie's sophmore frame. Total gross stands at nother of $20 million with sights now turing to the $30 million barrier. Sure there some big movies hitting screens as we entered the Xmas period but for sure past results have indicate the box office can handle multiple blockbusters, so fingers crossed there. Two new releasers held down the runner up spots during the weekend, both surprising for very different reasons. A Bad Moms Christmas is simply cringe worthy, and my IQ just dropped 2% by merely thinking about it. The movie scored a resounding thumbs down on the RT metre with 28% rotten and falling, just the sort of movie that should fail but Aussies and bad movies go together like beer and football. Anyways the chick flick opened on a whopping 440 screens as distributor Roadshow showed some faith it in, averaging a respectable $6,454 for a weekend bow of $2.8 million. Given there were sizeable prescreenings the movie now stands at $3.57 million. The least said the better on this one. OPening in third spot Jigsaw disappointed with a $4,529 average over 205 screens dropping a $928K bow for the gorenography flick. That is well below my estimate of $1.5 and a blight on the otherwise great year horror is having at the Aussie box office in 2017. By my calculations this one isn't going to pass the $2.5 million success mark, and should once and for all call off a franchise that seems to be getting worse movie by movie. Over weekend three Geostorm fell back 47% only adding $263K to the equation which still stands at a successful $2.85 million. Clearly the movie isn't going to make a whole lot more, and if we had to be brutally honest was probably a disappointment to distributoe Warner Brothers, but no entirely sure this one had a bunch to offer folk outside the core demographics. Meanwhile Happy Death Day imploded on weekend six losing -60.7% of the previous week's business. The movie still has a solid $3.34 million in the coffers but the weekend take of $131K isn't going to push too many buttons amongst the faithful. Still good result overall and another win for the dark genre in 2017.
Greg McLean's latest opens over the weekend, Jungle see's Daniel Radcliffe lost in the green inferno of Bolivian searching for a way out. These movies don't tend to play that well in Australia so not expecting a whole bunch of result for the movie over the opening weekend. Something in the vicinity of 100K would be solid, but perhaps the Distributor is justing getting the name out in the market, we'll see what resolves after Sunday evening. No trailer on this one kids, sick and tired of wadding through people throwing up trailers with their own graphics on it and then claiming "official" in the title, now that's at the very less morally ambigous. |
