Aussie film Goddess in box office top five
Goddess: first Australian film to make the top 10 in 2013
Goddess, the Australian musical starring Magda Szubanski and honorary Australian Ronan Keating, reached number four of the weekend box office top 20 on its debut week.
The comedy musical written by Mark Lamprell of Babe: Pig in the City fame, made $512,445. Goddess took an average of $2,476 on each of its ambitious 207 screens.
Distributed by Roadshow, the film has trumped the two Australian films still on release this week, both about sports. Last week’s AFL drama, Blinder, made less than $50,000 while the cricket comedy, Save You Legs, made $165,000.
Goddes, which used the distributer’s social media page to promote itself, lost out to fellow debut The Incredible Burt Wonderstone ($1,093,009), but beat stalwart film The Silver Linings Playbook ($480,965).
Sam Raimi’s foray into children’s films Oz: The Great and Powerful, continued to dominate, making almost $3 million across 558 screens.
Django Unchained remained in ninth place while Safe Haven had the biggest drop, falling from number 12 last week to number 20.
Goddess is a delightful film, based upon some very sound (rather old fashioned in a way) ideas. I am pleased that it is doing well, it deserves to have considerable success.
It is packed with talented performance and great theatrical ideas and themes. It is rather too long, but that doesn’t grate. My biggest niggle concerns some rather clunky overplaying, but even this doesn’t damage the film badly, it is a gem.
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Loved it – even laughed out loud twice. costumes, singing and all
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Stopped reading at “Babe: Pig in the City”
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Yes, such a delightful film. Why doesn’t Australia make more films like this? And Tasmania looks amazing, I must say.
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I agree Jenny Naylor.
I believe that Australia doesn’t make more films like this, because film making here has become a hit and miss industry.
Select groups struggle to raise dollars to produce half cock stories and half cock productions Willy Nilly. I want to see a proper body of properly elected members representing the widest possible scope of film making talent, helping others in the industry to workshop and realise projects.
The industry must stop trying to “star pick “and second guess and above all, they must stop gambling on wild half cock ideas.
The US way is not the right way, any more than the French , Czech, British or Irish way . We must start to produce films., Australian films that will eventually develop the Australian way. We must strive for Literary, theatrical and Cinematic excellence above all other qualities.
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Godess is a cracker of a fim, with all the great feelgood comedy and romance of a successfull chick flick
However this film covers many genres it is a musical, a romantic comedy, and feelgood movie, that delivars a cataloge of buetifull songs.
Ronan is charming and endearing as James and for his first movie appearance, he is a natral, and has a warmth to him, which lights up the screen
Laura michelle kelly is perfec as screen wife for ronan, with her cute and didsy character, and plays the part very convincingly
Its a great little movie, that fills the cienama with sunshine and radiance, go see
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