Lionsgate and the world’s exhibitors were probably betting that nearly everyone who saw The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 would roll up to the finale.
Spectre, the 24th James Bond opus, rang up $11.3 million last weekend plus $751,000 in previews on 618 screens for a total of just over $12 million.
Thrilled with The Dressmaker’s opening weekend, producer Sue Maslin is confident a US deal for Jocelyn Moorhouse’s dramedy will be signed this week.
Director Peter Andrikidis probably never dreamt his name would appear in the same sentence as Steven Spielberg, but that was before he knew their films would open in Australian cinemas on the same day.
On Friday one Australian distributor looked at the abysmal opening day figures for four new films and muttered, “It’s a bloodbath.â€
Continuing the 2015 resurgence of Australian cinema, Oddball vaulted past Last Cab to Darwin last weekend to rank as the fourth most popular local film in cinemas this year
Boosted by the school vacation and word of mouth, Stuart McDonald’s Oddball flew through its second weekend, beating two new high-profile Hollywood films.
Australian films looks like maintaining their impressive momentum at cinemas after the premieres last weekend of Oddball and Blinky Bill: The Movie.