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Box Office: 2009 Wrap
[Mon 11/01/2010 03:24:08]
By Brendan Swift
Dance epic Mao's Last Dancer was the biggest local film at the Australian box office last year, raking in almost $15 million.
The film has now taken almost $15.1 million making it the twelfth most successful local movie of all time, behind Muriel's Wedding, which took more than $15.7 million in 1994.
A further eight films released in 2009 broke the $1 million mark although only the box office takings of one film - Samson & Delilah - surpassed its production budget.
While the Cannes award-winning drama's $3.18 million performance at the box office far exceeded its modest $1.6 million production budget, only a small proportion has so far flowed back to its major investor Screen Australia.
Screen Australia had recouped $116,374 of its initial $1.37 million investment, according to the national screen agency in November last year.
The INSIDEFILM survey found that the total estimated budgets of the 37 Australian feature films released in 2009 was more than $147 million (not including prints and advertising costs). Their total box office revenue was almost $35.9 million.
However, the list is not a measure of a film's profitability and does not take into account other sources of income such as DVD and foreign territory sales.
It also does not include film's released in 2008, which accrued box office revenue last year, such as Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
Film
Budget
Distributor
Opening w/e
Weeks
Box Office
Mao's Last Dancer
$25.8m
Roadshow/Hopscotch
$2,754,620
13
$14,991,859
Charlie & Boots
$8m est.
Paramount/Transmission
$810,270
15
$3,854,074
Samson and Delilah
$1.6m
Para/Trans/Footprint
$199,163
33
$3,184,050
The Boys are Back
$16m
Hopscotch
$473,339
7
$2,062,901
Beautiful Kate
$6m
Roadshow
$273,582
20
$1,623,672
Mary and Max
$8m
Icon
$217,176
15
$1,444,617
Balibo
$4.5m
Para/Trans/Footprint
$206,290
17
$1,329,878
Disgrace
$10m
Icon
$209,014
15
$1,166,294
My Year Without Sex
$3.8m
Para/Trans/Footprint
$177,522
19
$1,130,292
Bright Star
$16.7m
Roadshow/Hopscotch
$319,662
1
$859,063
Love the Beast
Madman
$241,982
10
$777,351
The Combination
$1.169m
Australian Film Syndicate
$188,054
29
$742,355
Blessed
$4m
Icon
$67,186
10
$457,898
Last Ride
$4m
Madman
$76,459
27
$388,722
Wake in Fright
$700,000*
Madman
$25,446
20
$312,323
Two Fists, One Heart
$8.5m
BVI
$96,999
2
$305,300
Van Diemen's Land
$800,000
Madman
$39,939
12
$289,353
Subdivision
$4m est.
BVI
$86,649
1
$206,350
Cedar Boys
$1.36m
Hoyts/Mushroom
$74,793
5
$204,160
Stone Bros.
$3.3m
Australian Film Syndicate
$22,702
8
$98,032
The Marriage of Figaro
$400,000
Australian Film Syndicate
$13,693
9
$87,846
Beautiful
$2m
Kojo/Jump Street
$22,406
6
$56,101
Closed for Winter
$2m
Omnilab Media
$19,449
6
$53,370
Prime Mover
Para/Trans/Jetty
$8,192
5
$51,745
Shadows of the Past
$820,000
Summer Night
$13,927
16
$48,205
$9.99
$4m
Icon
$15,847
4
$47,520
Lake Mungo
Darclight films
$9,730
5
$39,000
Bastardy
$260,000
Film Camp
$7,822
7
$37,570
Coffin Rock
$2.1m
AI Entertainment
$9,846
5
$31,312
Lucky Country
$2m est.
Para/Trans/Footprint
$11,413
3
$27,424
The Burning Season
Gil Scrine/Freshwater
$3,848
6
$21,017
The Chifleys of Busby St
Ronin
$3,760
$13,658
Crush
$2m
Filmscope/Odin's Eye
$8,304
1
$13,051
Three Blind Mice
Odin's Eye/Titan View
$2,988
6
$9,590
My Tehran for Sale
Cyan Films
$2,422
2
$13,711
Bad Bush
$180,000
VVVF
$1,909
2
$3,961
Salvation
Hopscotch
$2,262
1
$3,182
Prey
$3.5m
Damage Releasing
$744
$35,870,106
Source: MPDAA.
Notes: Wake in Fright budget from original production date in 1971. Does not include $800,000 in restoration costs. The production budgets of The Marriage of Figaro and Van Diemen's Land includes the value of deferrals.
