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actually they do have more Fox of late has been reporting Locations rather than prints (ie with alvin should have been reporting around high 300-400 but instead in 200's)

Chron will be just over $lc2.9mil weekend, 32 Desc 1.3mil, #3 UW 1.1

dont know where I got the 6 from , just meant for Thursday in aus it was actually 3 times higher than #2 film Descendants

didn't read it right before aobe was nationalTop 10 in Sydney 44% of Sydney, George St 8%(way above anything), Castle Hill 5%, Bondi 5% the rest are between 3-4%(Macquarie, Broadway, Parra, Burwood, Penrith, Blacktown, Miranda)

Uk previews Thurs looks like ranking 3 maybe #2, opening in Aus NZ, HK #1 with a bullet (Aus about 6 times higher then #2 film), compared to say Paranormal Activity in aus/NZ countries just under #1 way above #2, in HK above the othersRussia not sure yet. Quite a few countries this weekend.

about 15%, top 25 30%Actually the above was National top10 top25

doing it all from memory for what its worth Perth was other way round Hoyts not GU,late 90's -01 ended 2005 and as for the other I could right a novel

Yeah basically years ago the ACCC in Sydney, Melbourne & brisbane wouldn't allow the CBD locations to be dominated by one chain, Adelaide didn't care either way nor Perth. In Perth GU ended up being only one and eventullay they pulled out and theres now only and independent cinema in CBD.In Brisbane Hoyts had couple sites, & GU a couple, GU closed their sites and the Hoyts ones became a GU/Hoyts JV when the ACCC lifted the ruling GU bought Hoyts share in Bris city.In Melbourne there were seperate Gu/village & hoyts complexs and they remained eventually village closed citym GU stayed and Hoyts closed theirs but build a new complex(now one of the biggest in the country).In Sydney Village closed their CBD site and up the road the GU& Hoyts complex they connected the two to become one and it became a JV between the three, Village eventually pulled out and it became GU/Hoyts then when ACCC ruling was lifted GU bought out Hoyts for something like 10mil maybe higher but also took over the full rent which is high millions each year.Part of the deal with sydney was Broadway complex up the road , GU had a stake in it with Hoyts, Hoyts bought out the GU stake to compensate for CBDNow the stuipd thing with the CBD setup was and the ACCC ruling they was no single directory in papers so you'd see George st for example listed under GU and Hoyts and village directories and only the films each company had (so look at all of them to see what was on at Gst c, website the same I remember friends say Hey X isn't showing at George st I'd say what site are you looking at oh GU, try Hoyts and you'll find it etc), hoyts however controlled the Ticketing system but each company had to issue their own reports they received from data feed.Booking a film each chain had control of screens so for example Hoyts might have had screen 1,4,7,10, GU had ,2,3,6, village say 5,8,12 you get the drift, different cinema ads the works (each chain got a large cinema each and then the rest divided)if a film played on screen1 you delt with Hoyts if Screen 5 you delt with village.There were also different ticket prices so if say a film happened to play across chains , so on 1 GU screen and 1 Hoyts screen and both chains might had different prices.so for example you might have gone to film X in Cin1 at 2pm GU Adult 10.50,but if you went to 3pm and it happened to be on a hoyts screen say 4 you might have paid only $10, pages of ticketing codes the site had to accept things like Movie money from all the chainsthe above example for Sydney also applied to Brisbane across two complexes (4 +8)so if you worked in one of these cinema back in the day , a nightmare.

Actually its the other way around GU bought into village 33-50% in the 1950's and in the 1980's also bought a share of Roadshow film Distribution, few years ago GU sold Village stake and trying to remember FD... actually I sure they sold it as well.GU also had 50% stake in BCC forever(think almost since day1) and in early 90's bought 100% of it. BCC in qld was going to be changed to GU name but because BCC was such a household name BCC name stayed.The Majority of the village/ GU multiplexes these days are a JV between the two and depending on the state it determines who runs it, so. up untill a few years ago Warner Bros Theatres was also a stateholder (they owned on average a 1/3 each), GU bought out WB's share.In I think 2009 the Newcastle Glendale complex a JV but operated by GU, GU bought out Village 50% stakes so its now 100% GU, GU bought out both village & hoyts in Sydney george St for millions (it was a JV for years between hoyts/village/GU) they also took control of Brisbane city as well.So for exampleSydney, Perth, Adelaide-top ryde, Macquarie , Castle hill, Hurstville , Miranda, Innaloo , Marion, etc are all GU/village JV operated by GUQLD - chermside, Mt Gravatt, Robina, Carindale, etc are GU/BCC/village operated by BCc well its really GUVic- KnoX, Southland, sunshine etc GU/village operated by VillageInteresting thing with Castle Hill is it use to be part owned as well by Pacific Theatres.Years ago behind the Box Office was a huge sign say this is a GU/Village/Warner Bros/Pacific cinema the sign went the whole length of the BO.also in NZ 2010 -2011 GU bought Sky cinemas(which had been Village, that Sky bought few years prior)NZ is dominated by Hoyts & GUSo GU is overall the dominate force. While in Aus GU has a number of sites its 100%, village has hardly any the majority are JV's whether it be with GU or some other partner.Hoyts is left to build and operate their own .Untill the early-mid 1980's Hoyts for 50 years was 50% owned by 20th Century Fox film corp.

Avg 12.87 admits 85mil

weekend 38K on 8 ranked #26

Yes Indoor Was and use to be not much different bet the two when chermside opened, now if you wanted to make Indoor a 24plex(16+8) it rank #13 instead of #17 but still wouldn't touch Chermside, Carindale is way way way down the list in Bris

In the top 25GU/BCC 13, VIL 6, HOY 6Melb-9,Sydney-8,Bris-3,Perth-2, Adel-1,Gcoast-1,SunshineC-1

lol yeah true just a slip up, the next Bris location is Indooroopilly #17(under Robina 8 Gold coast)& MountG #24

1-GU George St 17, Syd city2-GU Innaloo 16, Syd3-Gu Marion 26 (use to be 30), Ade4-BCC Chermside 16, Bri5-GU Castle hill 16, syd6-VIL Southland 16, Mel7-HOY Carousel 16, Per8-HOY Melb Central 11, mel city9-VIL Knox 15, Mel10-HOY Chadstone 16, Melthe biggest say <= 8 screens is BCc Robina 8 on Gcoast

Yeah actually in the city of Melb #1 UA, #2 Desc, #3 hugoYeah Central is bigger than knox (not far behind) & Chadstone

Close southland & Melb Central, southland is up there along with KnoxThu top 5 , #1 UA,#2DES,#3J2,#4Hugo #5 FBM

Because Thursday was holiday, so will be out sometime Friday. Underworld was easily #1 on Thursday

What besides the fact its consistently the highest grossing location in QLD and in top 5 Nationally

ranked 12 did GBP413,210 259 theatres

I though from distance past that either it had been mentioned or I had assumed or worked out that's where I though you worked, not sure now.

[ Ghost Riser 2 is only Sony in a very few markets, GH2 &Vow are Lusomundo, but I would have thought both Skyfall & Hobbitt would be under CTW (sony/warner) [ Skyfall is Sony & Hobbit is WB in UK

well it was just a tad under 85mil, prior two years were over 90

Weekend Uk easily #1 only be around 20% drop, its 3 times Underworld opening @ #2, #3 SH & #4 Iron Lady #3-4 are almost neck and neck with Underworld interesting to see finals, #5 sitter (wl1), #6 Haywire(wk1)