Thor continues its box office reign as The Counselor opens
Cameron Diaz gets friendly with a car in The Counselor
Thor: The Dark World has topped the Australian box office for the second weekend running, according to figures from the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia. The Disney-distributed film, which screened on 609 screens across the weekend, made $4.4m. It has now made a total of $14.1m locally.
The second highest grossing film this weekend was The Counselor. The Fox-distributed feature, which boasts an all star cast including Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz took home $1,2m across 238 screens in its first weekend. Also premiering this weekend, Insidious: Chapter Two made just $527,000 on 118 screens.
Two locally produced films were also released across the weekend. Comedy Backyard Ashes, directed by Mark Grentell and distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, made $46,856 on four screens. And documentary In Bob We Trust, about Catholic priest and media personality Father Bob Maguire, opened on seven screens and made $13,903.
Tim Winton’s The Turning made an additional $34,358 across 22 screens while Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road made $37,090 on 25 screens.
THE BOX OFFICE TOP 20
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thor: The Dark World (Disney) | $4,388,723 | 609 | $14,082,081 |
| The Counselor (Fox) | $1,248,939 | 238 | $1,254,473 |
| Captain Phillips (Sony) | $1,169,589 | 336 | $6,283,098 |
| Gravity (Wb) | $921,334 | 372 | $18,203,164 |
| The Butler (Eone /hopscotch) | $797,566 | 184 | $2,053,219 |
| About Time (Universal) | $701,632 | 250 | $6,893,751 |
| Insidious: Chapter 2 (Sony) | $526,929 | 118 | $558,901 |
| Prisoners (Wb) | $273,115 | 168 | $3,508,830 |
| Planes (Disney) | $107,512 | 111 | $7,686,702 |
| Grown Ups 2 (Sony) | $103,282 | 103 | $10,919,234 |
| 2 Guns (Sony) | $96,996 | 86 | $4,961,454 |
| Krrish 3 (Eros) | $91,864 | 30 | $416,575 |
| Turbo (Fox) | $88,737 | 110 | $12,755,443 |
| Blue Jasmine (Eone /hopscotch) | $74,077 | 50 | $5,921,056 |
| The Smurfs 2 (Sony) | $63,820 | 114 | $13,026,169 |
| Rush (Eone /hopscotch) | $60,480 | 40 | $4,215,747 |
| Mr. Pip (Paramount) | $55,416 | 29 | $55,416 |
| Backyard Ashes (Umbrella Ent.) | $46,856 | 4 | $46,856 |
| Mystery Road (Indies) | $37,090 | 25 | $299,040 |
| Tim Winton's The Turning (Madman) | $34,358 | 22 | $1,157,852 |
Data courtesy MPDAA
Does Mumbrella have the figures for Box Office gross for authentic Australian films this year? It would be interesting to see particularly if The Great Gatsby was excluded. Screen Australia its seems has run for cover.
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What are the criteria for an ‘authentic Australian film’?
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BACKYARD ASHES PEASE…
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BACKYARD ASHES PEASE…
what does this mean?
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Anyone else realise that per screen, Backyard Ashes smashed Thor?
11714 > 7206.
More Aus films please.
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Backyard Ashes!!! Aussie, aussie, aussie!
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Why is backyard ashes only on 4 screens?
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Thoroughly enjoyed Backyard Ashes, what a bright, fun and feel good night at the cinema!
If you want to see it at your cinema ring them and request it and while you’re at it like the Backyard Ashes – The Movie Facebook page. You’ll be glad you did 🙂
Well done to the writers, producers, actors and the community of Wagga Wagga, you have done Australia proud.
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What do we need to do to get Backyard Ashes in other cities? People don’t know what they are missing
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Backyard Ashes please.
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Backyard Ashes should be on all Australian film screens. C’mon people, release it nationally!!!!
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Can we get Backyard ashes show nationally please, great Aussie movie.
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PomsInCharge. Authentic Aussie film is probably what any reasonable theatre goer would recognise as Australian. Nobody in Kansas would have watched The Great Gatsby and seriously considered it to be Australian. Such a definition is always tricky and variable depending on whether you want the 40% Producer Offset tax rebate as Warners got on Gatsby or whether you may have a cultural definition of an Aussie film which was the original basis for subsidising the Australian film industry in the late 70s. Of late the whole definition has turned into a tax driven joke as we now subsidise Hollywood movies and the studios roam the world looking for subsidy. Romania one day Australia the next.
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Without The Great Gatsby ($28M with an $86.4M tax offset) the other 18 Australian films released this year have totalled approx. $12M. With the annual box office usually around $1B each year, 2013 will prove to be the worst year for Australian films in a very long time. Screen Australia, however, are including TGG in their financial accumulation and trumpeting this as a great year for Australian films at 4-5% of total box office. Talk about heads in the sand.
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