Australian Box Office - 7th March 2019
Leader of the Pack in 2019
Distributor Wars - Top Spot Blockbusters in 2019: 1
Well roll me in flour and call me muffin the 15th remake, might have exaggerated there, made $36.2 million from a massive twenty weeks in the chart driven no doubt by hysterical chicks. You know the ones that made the Twitard universe of bad movie making successful. Some movie goers need to give themselves an upper cut to be honest, we're trying to stop Boredwood from pumping out remakes not encourage them! Hindi movie Total Dhamaal, a group of people learn of an Indian treasure and go hunting, managed two weeks in the chart earning $600k in the process. Enough said folks, let's discuss the far more successful Cold Pursuit. The Brit remake Cold Pursuit of the Norwegian original sees Liam Neeson on the road to vengenance due to his son being killed by drug dealers. The movie had a solid four week run in the process earning $2.5 million and I guess ensuring Neeson will be the go to action star for the next few years. Underlining the complete disaster that is Happy Death Day 2U the movie died in the arse after three weeks making an extremely underwhelmning $1.35 million. Now that's a complete train wreck even by horror standards folks. Finally we get a comedy about a couple fostering three orphans in Instant Family. The movie had an eight week run earning $12.9 million, which is a pretty good result over all for mine. After three weeks we get a new movie on top of the chart the House of Mouse's Captain Marvel, yet another movie in the Marvel cannon that no one is allowed to be critical of because it has a female lead that looks bored throughout. Oops, just committed a cardinel sin there folks. Actually just checked the RT and besides the usual bandwagon sitters there is some critical complaints going down and the audience score isn't as high as expected. Anyways, and before we get bogged down, Disney opened the movie to a massive 862 screen barrage! Marvel certainly were paid off with a $15,772 per screen average leading to an opening bow of $13,595,083. Disney did go with some preview screenings and early openers which helps explain the total gross now standing at North of $15 million. Okay folks clearly this one is going to blockbuster and should overthrow the top grosser of the year, I'm rocking out a total of around $40 million. Surprisingly, since it dropped -31% over weekend two, A Dog's Way Home held onto second spot on the chart making $880k through the weekend to push total gross to a reasonable $2.6 million. Sorry not a lot to say on this one, the same movie was being made back in the 1940s, we're talking a retread of a thread bare tire here folks. Oh dear god in heaven Green Book is still in third spot with a -34% fall over weekend seven. The Wine and Cheese set are really making a meal out of this bollocks. The movie notched $805k pushing total gross to $11.8 million. Yes the box office is in the doldrums folks, we have a dopey superhero flick on top of the charts and a turgid mess below it. Thankfully horror is still pumping some blood through those flaccid cinematic veins. Speakng of horror Escape Room collapsed -56.3% over weekend five earning an additional $137k which has pushed total gross to $3.8 million. Now that's a result for the dark genre but unfortunately the movie is now in the suck y'all. Fingers crossed it can eke out a few more dollars before disappearing into cinematic history. Opening in 26th spot, oh dear, The House that Jack Built got 13 screens from Umbrella but could only average $1,412k giving us an $18k bow, well below my prediction of $30k. Total gross stands at $23k so guess the Distributor is working on getting the name out there. Would love to see this one but the City I live in only has a few Indie screens way out in the 'burbs. Guess I'll be first in line with credit card out the day the movie hits shelves down JB HiFi. What's Coming UpNot a lot to be excited about, and by not a lot I mean nada |
