Top End Wedding takes over $1m across first weekend, but fails to touch Avengers: Endgame
Australian romantic comedy Top End Wedding has taken over $1m in its first weekend, beaten only by Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame which pulled $13.6m, giving it a total of $65.7 for the three weeks it’s been in local cinemas.
This week saw Avengers: Endgame, which is the final film in the current phase of the Avengers franchise, hit US$2.2bn in global revenue, putting it in front of Titanic and just behind Avatar in the list of highest grossing films of all time. James Cameron’s Avatar took $2.8bn across 47 days of release.
The top five was rounded out with Studiocanal’s Long Shot which took $820,418 for its first weekend, Universal’s Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun which took $357,577, and Disney’s Dumbo which is in its sixth week of release and took $211,208.
Avengers: Endgame was shown on the most screens, airing to 1,040 across the weekend over 287 for Top End Wedding and 250 for Long Shot.
Disney had three of the top 10 movies for the weekend, with Captain Marvel still pulling $160,475 across the weekend, despite being in its ninth week and only showing on 96 screens. Disney owns the rights to the Marvel franchise after its acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
While it hasn’t hit the heights of Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel has grossed $41.4m across its Australian run and sits as the seventh highest grossing female-led film of all time at a global level. The character of Captain Marvel, played in the film by Brie Larson, also appears in Avengers: Endgame, and the film was given a boost by the release of the all-star superhero flick, pushing it to take $372,644 last week.
Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
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Avengers: Endgame (Disney) | $13,626,035 | 1040 | $65,801,955 |
Top End Wedding (Universal) | $1,102,161 | 287 | $1,588,800 |
Long Shot (Studiocanal) | $820,418 | 250 | $845,276 |
Peppa Pig:festival Of Fun (Universal) | $357,577 | 229 | $451,390 |
Dumbo (live Action) (Disney) | $211,208 | 183 | $11,864,056 |
Wonder Park (Paramount) | $209,320 | 205 | $6,243,192 |
The Chaperone (Studiocanal) | $197,090 | 183 | $970,247 |
Shazam! (Wb) | $195,364 | 255 | $16,555,327 |
The Curse Of The Weeping Woman (Wb) | $169,707 | 176 | $2,056,333 |
Captain Marvel (Disney) | $160,475 | 96 | $41,450,178 |
The Aftermath (Fox) | $115,605 | 120 | $1,878,377 |
Gloria Bell (Roadshow) | $106,766 | 36 | $412,674 |
The Lego Movie 2 (Wb) | $102,273 | 147 | $10,761,052 |
Five Feet Apart (Roadshow) | $78,500 | 108 | $7,155,162 |
Us (Universal) | $51,028 | 39 | $9,341,070 |
Burning (Palace) | $50,573 | 17 | $458,467 |
The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir (Icon) | $41,807 | 50 | $112,840 |
Little (Universal) | $33,924 | 50 | $2,366,712 |
Woman At War (Hi Gloss Entertainment) | $30,726 | 30 | $403,478 |
Sometimes Always Never (Transmission) | $17,341 | 56 | $1,158,107 |
Er, Disney owns the rights to the “Marvel franchise” since they acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009. The Fox deal brings licensed Marvel characters like X-Men & Fantastic Four back into the fold.
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Why can’t we celebrate Top End’s Wedding’s box office opening weekend success as opposed to comparing it to Captain Marvel and Avengers. Avengers is on 1,000 screens, and is continuing to break box office records, while Top End Wedding has performed well for a local production, on around a 5th of screens given to Marvel. Granted the film is not everyone’s cup of tea, but the film deserves some form of support from Australian media, not a reminder that it does not measure up to a film with a 365 Million USD budget.
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Completely agree. Let’s support local talent.
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