It’s been a slow start to December at Australian cinemas despite decent debuts last weekend by Universal’s animated comedy 'The Addams Family' and Warner Bros’ British suspense thriller 'The Good Liar'.
Disney’s 'Frozen 2' dominated the cinema business last weekend without matching its stellar US results, while Studiocanal’s crime caper 'Knives Out' proved to be effective counter-programming.
Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s 'Ford v Ferrari' easily retained pole position in another soft weekend at Australian cinemas while Mirrah Foulkes’ writing and directing debut 'Judy & Punch'.
It was no-contest between Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s 'Ford v Ferrari' and Sony Pictures' 'Charlie’s Angels' reboot at Australian cinemas last weekend.
Warner Bros cast the usually reliable Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson as the leads in 'Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep' and pitched the film to fans of Stephen King’s 1977 novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic 'The Shining'.
The latest iterations of 'Maleficent', 'Godzilla', 'Men in Black', 'The Angry Birds' and 'Rambo' flopped or under-performed in cinemas this year and now 'Terminator: Dark Fate' is the latest victim of moviegoers’ sequel fatigue
Most of the new releases in Australian cinemas last weekend had bombed or under-performed in the US weeks or months ago, so their fates were probably sealed.
In the battle of the sequels Disney’s 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' beat Sony’s 'Zombieland: Double Tap' but neither was a match for the third weekend of Warner Bros’ juggernaut 'Joker'.