Bait continues to struggle as Looper opens strongly at box office
Australian shark film Bait is struggling to win an audience in its second week at the local box office.
The 3D shark flick took a very low $825 screen average across 231 screens, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
In its second weekend, the film made $190,000, taking its Australian box office to 776,000 for distributor Paramount.
The genre film follows a group of stranded shoppers in a submerged supermarket after Tsunami hits, getting terrorised by a great white shark.
This isn’t surprising. I saw the trailer for Bait on YouTube and it looked like a joke? Similar to Snakes on a Plane style…
You have to be kidding me! Who on earth thought a movie like BAIT would ever be anything more than a piece of direct-to-DVD crap which in turn would be headed straight for the bargain bin?
It’s rubbish like this which makes a mockery of the next time we hear cries to support the Aussie movie industry against international incursions. Churn out this rubbish and you get exactly what you deserve.