"Why hasn’t it reached our expectations this weekend is the million dollar question."
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Roland Emmerich’s last highly profitable blockbuster – '2012' in 2009 – must seem like a distant memory for the German-born director as his latest effort, Midway, had an inglorious debut in Australian cinemas last weekend.
Saara Lamberg's debut feature 'Innuendo' had a limited cinema release in Australia but the psychological thriller will reach a lot more eyeballs in the US and the UK, where it's just launched on Amazon Prime.
Given Tom Hanks' enduring popularity and his Oscar nomination for best supporting actor in 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood', the film’s opening figures last weekend were nothing special.
Sony Pictures’ 'Bad Boys for Life' opened in top spot in a buoyant weekend as exhibitors and distributors donated two dollars of every ticket sold on Sunday at participating cinemas to three charities involved in bushfire relief.
Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to Owen Trevor’s debut feature 'GO!', excluding Australia and New Zealand, where Roadshow Films will release the See Pictures production on more than 240 screens on Thursday.
The Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace is still screening Martin Scorsese's The Irishman although it's streaming on Netflix and has booked Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang, which opens on January 9, 17 days before it premieres on Stan.
With Disney/Fox’s 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' invading cinemas this Thursday no distributor was brave – or foolish – enough to launch potentially lucrative titles last weekend.