Australian box office a mystery: Cowell
According to I Love You Too lead actor Brendan Cowell, it is difficult to say if the Roadshow Films release will be a hit when it opens this week, but it does have the elements necessary to become one.
“Box office in Australia is one of the hardest mysteries known to man, but this one has got all the makings of a hit, all the marketing angles, and it’s a real warm and beautiful story,” he told Encore.
Cowell can be currently seen on screen in Beneath Hill 60, now in its third week of release (with more than $2m in box office earnings) and, as of May 6, in the comedy I Love You Too.
“I don’t know if it’s a romantic comedy. There’s romance, but it’s also a relationship drama about a family. Maybe that’s what’s different about it; there are a few more genres in it, which is what’s unique about it,” he explained.
‘Box office in Australia is one of the hardest mysteries known to man’.
No mystery – local audiences want entertainment – not the shallow PC crap that’s been served up the past decade. Commercial filmmaking is no different than any other section of retail – give them the product they want (not what you think they should have) – & they will purchase. Reads like Brendan Cowell is undergoing some sort of mid career crisis? Acting or writing?
Film Writing, Stage Writing, Novel Writing, Stage Acting, Film Acting, NRL Tragic…Cowell is the ultimate Renaissance Man. And from the Shire too.
If he thinks it would have been easier to write a film then he obviously has no idea about how to properly write a screenplay.