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The Dressmaker passes Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla on all time Oz B.O.

The Dressmaker has continued its ascension up the all time Australian box office rankings passing $17 million in its seventh week.

Jocelyn Moorhouse's dramedy took $559,823 (according to Rentrak's estimates) on 248 screens, taking its accumulative box office to $17.1 million.

This takes it past Roadshow's 1994 films Muriel's Wedding ($15.765 million) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ($16.459 million).

According to Screen Australia figures, The Dressmaker is set to leapfrog 1982 film The Man From Snowy River (17.228 million) and 2000 film The Dish (17.999 million).

But it has a way to go to crack the top ten, with Red Dog at $21.467 million and Mad Max: Fury Road at 21.675 million.

In its fourth week, Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 raked in $1.9 million, giving it top spot, albeit with a 30 per cent decline on its previous week.

This brings its tally to $25.445 million in its last week before the monster release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on December 17.

Disney have a good chance of breaking the all time top grossing weekend record with the release of the seventh instalment of the Star Wars' saga.

It needs to beat Warner Bros' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which collected $18,364 million in its July 2011 release.

Spectre amassed $1.6 million – a drop of 22 per cent – in its fifth week, giving it an accumulative total of $31.595 million.

Sony's 3D animated fantasy-comedy Hotel Transylvania 2 continued strongly with $1.3 million, a drop of seven per cent on 286 screens (accumulated total: $6.346 million).

The Ryan Coogler directed, Creed, fought hard to maintain fourth place in its third week, taking just over a million and bumping its total box office past $5 million.

Jonathan Levine's twisted Christmas fable, The Night Before, starring Seth Rogan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie moved up to fifth spot in its second week with $666,697 – a drop of 14 per cent.

While the Ron Howard directed whaling drama, In the Heart of Sea, starring Chris Hemsworth, has continued its medicore run with $625,308 in its second week, a drop of 29 per cent.

Disney animation, The Good Dinosaur, held off holiday family flick, Love the Coopers, to claim eighth place with $280,000 on 192 screens, while Steven Spielberg's cold war drama, Bridge of Spies, rounded out the top ten with just more than $120,000, taking its tally to a respectable $7.2 million.  

  1. Great result for THE DRESSMAKER on 2015 box office prices. Pedantically, I wonder what the rankings would be if BO takings were calculated relative to ticket prices at the time of release. Hoge’s still stands supreme though with CROCODILE DUNDEE taking $47.7m in 1986. CROC II took $24.9m in 1988.
    Never mind, fantastic to see our local films doing so well. And did anyone, apart from the misery-guts who run MEAA, worry about Kate Winslet taking out Best Actress at the AACTA awards? I think not. Good enough for Cate and Nicole to win awards playing US or UK roles in films that tell US or UK stories, so good enough for Ms Winslet to win an award for being in a film that tells one of our stories! We are, after all, part of the global film making industry.

  2. Hang on. Murial’s Wedding 1994, budget around three million. Croc’D’ 1986 budget nearer nine million with a very different boot behind it.

    Good result for dressmaker all the same, and congratulations are in order. I don’t share the enthusiasm personally, but that’s one of the many things that makes art so interesting.

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