Save Your Legs has disappointing opening at the box office
A new Australian film about cricket has struggled at the box office on its opening weekend.
Save Your Legs opened across an ambitious 176 screens for distributor Madman, taking $165,000, for a screen average of just $936 per screen.
The film is directed by Boyd Hicklin, who created the 2005 documentary of the same name about a team of Australian cricketers on a cricket and cultural exchange to India.
Brendan Cowell wrote the adaptation and stars in it alongside Stephen Curry and Damon Gameau. The film is produced by Bran Nue Dae’s Robyn Kershaw and Nick Batzias.
The film was previously scheduled for a January 24 release but was pushed back.
Elsewhere I Give It A Year topped the box office charts on its opening weekend. The Rose Byrne film distributed by eOne/Hopscotch made $1.395m across 224 screens for a respectable $6,228 screen average.
Side Effects opened in third place for Roadshow taking $841,000 across 177 screens for a $4,753 average while Cloud Atlas opened 10th with $355,000 across a quiet 66 screens but $5,379 screen average.
Meanwhile Silver Linings Playbook saw a resurgence for distributor Roadshow following the Oscars, taking $1.044m across 243 screens for a $4,298 average. The film is in its fifth weekend moved from third last week to second this week.
Oscar best picture winner Argo also saw a decent lift moving from 18th last week to 13th this week. The film added another $257,000 to its box office total. In its 19th week the Ben Affleck-directed film now stands at$12.219m. The film is distributed by Warner Bros.
The Paperboy, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Lee Daniels opened on just five screens for Roadshow. The film made $29,000 for a screen average of $5879.
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Never heard of the film, but probably wouldn’t be interested anyway.
And I am sick of Brendan Cowell being in every 2nd Aussie film – it seems like the same people get used over and over.
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For anyone who hasn’t seen it, the 2005 documentary is an absolute hoot. Not sure that it can be topped. Why bother making it into a feature film
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Looking forward to seeing this, it looks great and the doco was simply brilliant.
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Australian Cricket really is in the doldrums in every possible way.
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It’s a good fun movie, you should go see it
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Agree… it’s a fun movie and worth a look.
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didn’t even know it was at the cinemas
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Cricketers, both professional and amateur, always appear super arrogant. I don’t know why. I don’t know who want to see this film.
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p.s. the only thing sadder than a movie about an amateur cricket team is following your team across the world to sing ditties.
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Save Your Money.
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