Jimmy Barnes fans turned out for Mark Joffe’s Jimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy which opened wide but on limited sessions in a slow weekend at Australian cinemas.
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There was a lull in Australian films released theatrically in June so the total grosses for local titles this year has ticked up to only $42.95 million.
Australian exhibitors and distributors did not have a lot to celebrate over Christmas/New Year as ticket sales lagged well behind the previous year - but the forecast for the rest of January is upbeat.
WB's 'Godzilla vs. Kong' has posted the highest opening weekend of any film post-COVID, in a hopeful sign that audiences are ready to come back to cinemas for blockbusters.
EVT's entertainment division has posted a 73.9 per cent decline in first quarter earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to $7.7 million compared to the prior corresponding period.
Studiocanal's road rage thriller 'Unhinged' was the top choice again for cinemagoers in its second weekend while R&R Films' 'Black Water: Abyss', director Andrew Traucki’s sequel to his 2007 cult-horror 'Black Water', had a limited release in Oz and the US.
With Sydney's cinemas still shuttered, a snap lockdown in effect in South East Queensland, Victorian and South Australian theatres just reopening, and the Olympics competing for eyeballs, it wasn't going to be smooth sailing for Disney's 'Jungle Cruise'.
It was a grim weekend for Australian cinemas despite the launches of 'The Mountain Between Us', 'Happy Death Day' and several local films.