Slow weekend at box office sees new Woody Allen and Ethan Hawke films bomb
A lack of blockbuster releases saw box office takings slide across the weekend with Guardians of the Galaxy reclaiming top spot from The Inbetweeners 2.
The best placed newcomer was US romantic drama If I Stay where a teen is left orphaned after a car crash and faces the decision of whether she passes over or reunites with her first love, which took $1.088m on 200 screens, behind quirky film The Hundred Foot Journey which took $1.302m on 315 screens.
Guardians of the galaxy took $1.894m on 465 screens taking its total to $21.53m, whilst The Inbetweeners dropped from last week’s $3.155m to $1.568m on its second weekend.
How about mentioning that Predestination opened on 49 screens?
Hi Anonymous,
Good spot, that’s been added in now.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
You feel the need to call Predestination a bomb to get lazy headlines, but the truth is its screen average was high. Far from a bomb and far from paltry. But go ahead… Hate on the Australian Film Industry. You forgot to belittle Felony too.
If I Stay pulled in $5,400 per screen. Predestination made $4,200 per screen. The gap between “best-placed” and “paltry” seems pretty small…
Yes not impressed with this lazy reporting on Aussie films. Sigh
Opening Predestination on 49 screens is hardly an endorsement of its BO potential. Similarly with Felony. Why call an Australian film Felony, an American legal term not used in Australia?
So it appears we have two Australian films, one not even recognisable as Australian (but still getting a 40% tax rebate) and another with an American name. It seems the Australian film industry doesn’t really know what it is anymore or why the subsidy created for it so many years ago was actually for.
I have not seen the Woody Allen movie yet. Iam living in Monaco & it comes out in october 22nd. I can’t waite cause I am a fan of Colin Firth. I also lile Woody Allen.Lacey from New York living in Monte Carlo.
I saw Predestination on its opening day, it was amazing. No one wanted to leave the cinema, we were like in a trance. No one started to move until the credits were running for a few minutes.
I didn’t know it was an Australian film until the credits. It deserves great reviews and lots of eyeballs.