damianThis Weeks Top 20 Film Box Office
July 26th 2006 06:06
Jindabyne debuts to a big haul and Ten Canoes keeps going strong.
Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings 20th - 23rd July
Local Content Score- 2
Hopes were high and they’ve been rewarded-Jindabyne’s debut has been a success. With a first week haul of $873,312 the local drama made it into third place with a huge average of $13,436 per screen and a good screen count of 65. As debuts go it was twice as good as its spiritual forerunner Lantana and very similar to Rabbit Proof Fence, both of which went on to make it into the top thirty Australian films of all time. Whether Jindabyne can make it to those giddy heights is uncertain as both dramas had very good holds, camping in the Top Twenty for months, but it could very well be the first local to crack the $4 million mark this year which would be awesome (I’m crossing my fingers for $5 million).
Ten Canoes also did very well with another great hold as it increased its screen count (It appears a few more cinemas have decided its worth showing a local film after all). The other night they had a documentary on SBS about the making of Ten Canoes and if you didn’t see it you really missed out. It was a really fascinating look into the difficulties faced by a modern film maker trying to bridge a cultural gap and displayed the pride and effort (understated as it was) a community both invests into and receives from the telling of their own stories. It also highlighted just how different aboriginal culture is to mainstream beliefs and practices and just how important stories like Ten Canoes are to bridging that gap. That is, after all, why we have a local cinema and if more films get made like this we can say that the FFC is doing a bloody good job.
As for Ten Canoes finishing haul it’s still looking like a $2.5 million finish but with two Aussie movies in The Twenty the publicity should pick up a little which will hopefully draw a larger crowd for both. If they can last two more weeks they’ll even be joined by two more locals, the comedies Footy Legends and Kenny, making it a possible four locals in the top twenty! Were that to happen there would of course be all the ‘Oh look there’s four local movies on at the same time’ newspaper articles, there would be TV reports, the public would be whipped into a local box office frenzy.....
Or maybe I’m just getting a little ahead of myself. Stay tuned next week to find out.
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#3.....Jindabyne.............$873,312.........65.......$13,436.......1............na.............$873,312
#10..Ten..Canoes......…$255,783.........42.....…$6,090........4......…-16......…$1,732,707
(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)
As always head to Movie Marshal to see the whole chart.
Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings 20th - 23rd July
Local Content Score- 2
Hopes were high and they’ve been rewarded-Jindabyne’s debut has been a success. With a first week haul of $873,312 the local drama made it into third place with a huge average of $13,436 per screen and a good screen count of 65. As debuts go it was twice as good as its spiritual forerunner Lantana and very similar to Rabbit Proof Fence, both of which went on to make it into the top thirty Australian films of all time. Whether Jindabyne can make it to those giddy heights is uncertain as both dramas had very good holds, camping in the Top Twenty for months, but it could very well be the first local to crack the $4 million mark this year which would be awesome (I’m crossing my fingers for $5 million).
Jindabyne in at #3
Ten Canoes also did very well with another great hold as it increased its screen count (It appears a few more cinemas have decided its worth showing a local film after all). The other night they had a documentary on SBS about the making of Ten Canoes and if you didn’t see it you really missed out. It was a really fascinating look into the difficulties faced by a modern film maker trying to bridge a cultural gap and displayed the pride and effort (understated as it was) a community both invests into and receives from the telling of their own stories. It also highlighted just how different aboriginal culture is to mainstream beliefs and practices and just how important stories like Ten Canoes are to bridging that gap. That is, after all, why we have a local cinema and if more films get made like this we can say that the FFC is doing a bloody good job.
As for Ten Canoes finishing haul it’s still looking like a $2.5 million finish but with two Aussie movies in The Twenty the publicity should pick up a little which will hopefully draw a larger crowd for both. If they can last two more weeks they’ll even be joined by two more locals, the comedies Footy Legends and Kenny, making it a possible four locals in the top twenty! Were that to happen there would of course be all the ‘Oh look there’s four local movies on at the same time’ newspaper articles, there would be TV reports, the public would be whipped into a local box office frenzy.....
Or maybe I’m just getting a little ahead of myself. Stay tuned next week to find out.
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#3.....Jindabyne.............$873,312.........65.......$13,436.......1............na.............$873,312
#10..Ten..Canoes......…$255,783.........42.....…$6,090........4......…-16......…$1,732,707
(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)
As always head to Movie Marshal to see the whole chart.
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