The Sapphires hits $10m at box office
Australian film The Sapphires has reached $10m at the local box office.
Distributed by Hopscotch Film/Entertainment One, the film reached the milestone in four weeks.
The film, set in the 1960s about an Aboriginal girl group sent to Vietnam to entertain American troops, is the highest grossing film at the Australian box office in 2012.
Its four week cumulative total is almost on par with Red Dog’s four weekend cume of $10.5m, which became last year’s highest grossing film.However, while Red Dog posted $1.9m in its fourth weekend, growing consistently from $1.78m in its opening weekend and $1.8m in its second, as The Sapphires opened on $2.34m and this week dropped to $1.147m.
Great film.
Not a film I would ever see but good to see a local film doing well and finding an audience.
“The Sapphires also must earn another $7m to pass George Miller’s 1982 film The Man From Snowy River before it will enter the Australian all time Top 10”. Do earnings get indexed, given the gap from 1982-today?
It’s annoying when film box office takings are compared without consideration of inflation.