damianThis Weeks Top Twenty Movies
September 12th 2006 23:55
Kenny is going off. ‘Nuff said.
Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings September 7th- 10th
Local Content Score- 2 of Top 20
Oh. My. Goodness. For the third week in a row Kenny has increased it’s box office take, this week hauling in a mighty $528,119 - which is 14% up on last week- to make it two weeks in at third. To say that this is impressive is to take the word ‘understatement’ and chisel it on the moon in letters thirty feet across. Increasing your box office one week is good. Two weeks is really impressive. Three, is insane.
And the cinema owners of Australia seem to be catching the drift as well with 97 screens across the country telling the tale of our humble Port-A-Loo hero, up from 76 at its debut. And why wouldn’t they- Kenny is averaging $5,445 a showing, an achievement most blockbusters aim for, and a figure only the best can manage when they’re four weeks into their run.
Recent Aussie movies are usually taking in about 10-15% of their final total when they peak. After three weeks of increasing totals who knows what will happen but at this rate, if Kenny were to follow the pattern of other movies, it would be looking at a $7 million final haul. Were it to increase its total again next week that figure would only rise.
It’s a dodgy art at the best of times but picking the final resting places of movie box office totals doesn’t get any easier when the movie in question is performing the way Kenny is. Can’t wait to see where it ends up.
The only other local movie in the Twenty this week was Jindabyne which came in at sixteenth with $161,571. It had a better fall this week, only falling 16% compared to last weeks 26%, so there’s still a chance that it can break $5 million, but with a current haul of $4,589,625 it will probably do it by collapsing across the line after leaving The Twenty.
Finally, there was the release this week of the erotic psychological drama The Book of Revelation. It was a fairly small debut, taking in $70,948 with only 20 cinema screens, so I’m not sure whether it will make it to mainstream audiences at all. From the publicity I figured it was one of the big local movies everyone was pinning their box office hopes to for 2006 but with a release this quiet I’m beginning to have my doubts. Maybe next week will see a wider release as part of a word-of-mouth campaign.
With only two locals in the Top Twenty the local haul fell to $689,690 for the week, taking the 2006 total to about $15,226,821. Here’s hoping Kenny can go another week raising it’s weekly haul...
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#3....Kenny..................$528,119........97.......$5,445..........4........14............$2,348,882
#16..Jindabyne............$161,571........86.......$1,879..........8........-16...........$4,589,625
(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 7th- 10th
Local Content Score- 2 of Top 20
Oh. My. Goodness. For the third week in a row Kenny has increased it’s box office take, this week hauling in a mighty $528,119 - which is 14% up on last week- to make it two weeks in at third. To say that this is impressive is to take the word ‘understatement’ and chisel it on the moon in letters thirty feet across. Increasing your box office one week is good. Two weeks is really impressive. Three, is insane.
Still looking good. Looking very good.
And the cinema owners of Australia seem to be catching the drift as well with 97 screens across the country telling the tale of our humble Port-A-Loo hero, up from 76 at its debut. And why wouldn’t they- Kenny is averaging $5,445 a showing, an achievement most blockbusters aim for, and a figure only the best can manage when they’re four weeks into their run.
Recent Aussie movies are usually taking in about 10-15% of their final total when they peak. After three weeks of increasing totals who knows what will happen but at this rate, if Kenny were to follow the pattern of other movies, it would be looking at a $7 million final haul. Were it to increase its total again next week that figure would only rise.
The only other local movie in the Twenty this week was Jindabyne which came in at sixteenth with $161,571. It had a better fall this week, only falling 16% compared to last weeks 26%, so there’s still a chance that it can break $5 million, but with a current haul of $4,589,625 it will probably do it by collapsing across the line after leaving The Twenty.
Finally, there was the release this week of the erotic psychological drama The Book of Revelation. It was a fairly small debut, taking in $70,948 with only 20 cinema screens, so I’m not sure whether it will make it to mainstream audiences at all. From the publicity I figured it was one of the big local movies everyone was pinning their box office hopes to for 2006 but with a release this quiet I’m beginning to have my doubts. Maybe next week will see a wider release as part of a word-of-mouth campaign.
With only two locals in the Top Twenty the local haul fell to $689,690 for the week, taking the 2006 total to about $15,226,821. Here’s hoping Kenny can go another week raising it’s weekly haul...
Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total
#3....Kenny..................$528,119........97.......$5,445..........4........14............$2,348,882
#16..Jindabyne............$161,571........86.......$1,879..........8........-16...........$4,589,625
(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)
Check out Movie Marshal for the full chart.
| 56 |
| Vote |
