Housos Vs Authority takes over $500,000 on its opening weekend
Fenech: Brain behind Housos
Housos Vs Authority, the feature film version of Paul Fenech’s SBS TV series Housos has taken just over half a million dollars at the box office on its opening weekend.
Taking $526,000, according to official figures from the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia, the film was shown across 151 screens for a moderate $3485 screen average.
Transmission Films released the film paying particular attention to “the heartland of the TV show’s fan base,” Courtney Botfield, general manager of Transmission Films told Encore.
Fenech can be compared to Nolan. Both came up with a unique, primitive style that reinvigorated the over-processed cornball of their times. And speaking of House husbands, Housos has more original insights than that predictable dribble.
Good comedy works best theatrically in Australia…this pretty much proves it…
I have to ask, is there some behind-the-scenes deal between Mumbrella and Housos? The past fortnight has seen several Housos stories already, plus the Google Hangout thing, and now here is another one. Meanwhile a comment I wrote last week under one of the Houos articles which was critical of the movie and suggested it was better suited to a straight-to-DVD-bargain-bin destiny was not published, despite there being nothing offensive in it.
Tim, is there some promotional deal between Mumbrella/Encore/Focal Point and Housos which we should be aware of?
Hi Jack B Nimble,
No – no deal although we do like to champion local content of all flavours where we can. It’s the first time I’ve met or spoken to Paul Fenech, as it happens.
We publish the box office figures every Monday night, and we do tend to focus on the local results.
(I just found your previous comment sitting in our moderation queue. I can’t see why we didn’t publish it, so I have now done so.)
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
Thanks for that, Tim!
Always a pleasure, and never a chore…