damianThis Weeks Top Twenty Movies
September 27th 2006 02:13
[I]Kenny slides a bit as the school holiday blockbusters stampede into cinemas.
Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings September 21st- 24th
Local Content Score- 2 of Top 20
The cinema silly season is upon us and, with it, hordes of children friendly movies with big budgets and even bigger merchandising possibilities. Unfortunately for local product, this means a deafening crescendo of marketing hype which drowns out all else, and Kenny, although only falling a meagre 11% in the past week, has fallen all the way to tenth.
Not to worry though. The haul of $387,979 has pretty much guaranteed a $5 million total and a showdown with Jindabyne for movie of the year, especially if the movie continues to hold the way it is. It’s also still making a decent buck for the cinemas screening it with a screen average of $3,767 which is an extraordinary performance from a film in it’s sixth week. Kenny finished with $3,615,948.
The other local was Jindabyne which held on for twentieth spot with $75,694. With it’s run in The Twenty coming to an end it’s good to see Jindabyne on a total of $4,882,778, just $120,000 short of the big $5 million. As predicted it should collapse across the line, but outside of The Twenty and well short of Lantana, it’s predecessors, which earnt $12.2 million back in 2001.
Why there is such a huge difference between the two, especially given the same sort of bleak drama genre, is a mystery but probably has to do with both the lack of success-hype this time round (because people expected a success) and the fact that it’s the kind of film that, once again, tells us that we’re all guilty of racial genocide and, in general, just being of European descent. Race issues are important, and need to be addressed, but just a quick look at the cinema results of the past decade can assure you that Australians are quite over university graduates trying to tell them who they are. If the cultural elite aren’t careful Australians are going to realise just how superfluous they are to the national conversation, especially with the recent evidence of Kenny as a movie that wasn’t government funded. Howard is already weilding the axe on the culture industries, and with too many more movies like this in the pipeline Australians wont put up much resistance when John suggests their tax money would be better spent on relevant things like sport stadiums.
For the sake of our national cinema- start making films we want to see; films that contribute to Australian cinema culture, not world cinema culture, and ones that point out the positives, not the negatives. Like a good friendship you cant constructively criticise anyone until they trust you enough to accept it, and Australia’s movie makers do not have that relationship yet, and wont have it by being so bleak and patronising. When they do start making films Australians enjoy and trust, then they can encourage a discussion of race issues, but until then they're only going to be preaching to those who already want to discuss it.
The total take of locals this week was $463,673.
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#10...Kenny..................$387,979.....103......$3,767..........6........-11...........$3,615,948
#20..Jindabyne..............$75,694........60......$1,262.........10.......-23...........$4,882,778
(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)
Check out Movie Marshal for the full chart.
Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings September 21st- 24th
Local Content Score- 2 of Top 20
The cinema silly season is upon us and, with it, hordes of children friendly movies with big budgets and even bigger merchandising possibilities. Unfortunately for local product, this means a deafening crescendo of marketing hype which drowns out all else, and Kenny, although only falling a meagre 11% in the past week, has fallen all the way to tenth.
Jindabyne is probably on it's last week in The Twenty.
The other local was Jindabyne which held on for twentieth spot with $75,694. With it’s run in The Twenty coming to an end it’s good to see Jindabyne on a total of $4,882,778, just $120,000 short of the big $5 million. As predicted it should collapse across the line, but outside of The Twenty and well short of Lantana, it’s predecessors, which earnt $12.2 million back in 2001.
Why there is such a huge difference between the two, especially given the same sort of bleak drama genre, is a mystery but probably has to do with both the lack of success-hype this time round (because people expected a success) and the fact that it’s the kind of film that, once again, tells us that we’re all guilty of racial genocide and, in general, just being of European descent. Race issues are important, and need to be addressed, but just a quick look at the cinema results of the past decade can assure you that Australians are quite over university graduates trying to tell them who they are. If the cultural elite aren’t careful Australians are going to realise just how superfluous they are to the national conversation, especially with the recent evidence of Kenny as a movie that wasn’t government funded. Howard is already weilding the axe on the culture industries, and with too many more movies like this in the pipeline Australians wont put up much resistance when John suggests their tax money would be better spent on relevant things like sport stadiums.
For the sake of our national cinema- start making films we want to see; films that contribute to Australian cinema culture, not world cinema culture, and ones that point out the positives, not the negatives. Like a good friendship you cant constructively criticise anyone until they trust you enough to accept it, and Australia’s movie makers do not have that relationship yet, and wont have it by being so bleak and patronising. When they do start making films Australians enjoy and trust, then they can encourage a discussion of race issues, but until then they're only going to be preaching to those who already want to discuss it.
The total take of locals this week was $463,673.
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#10...Kenny..................$387,979.....103......$3,767..........6........-11...........$3,615,948
#20..Jindabyne..............$75,694........60......$1,262.........10.......-23...........$4,882,778
(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)
Check out Movie Marshal for the full chart.
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