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[DeeCee]

It ended up having a much steeper drop then I was expecting this week.

 

Most Popular Films For Period Week, Jan 7 - 13, 2016 WIR = Weeks In Release
No	WIR	Title	$	%	Total $
1	4	STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (M), WALT DISNEY [592/ $12,058]	7,138,111	-41%	82,349,178
2	1	THE REVENANT (MA15+), FOX [248/ $23,825]	5,908,722	N/A	5,976,952
3	1	SISTERS (MA15+), UNIVERSAL [290/ $16,520]	4,790,660	N/A	4,874,864
4	3	DADDY`S HOME (PG), PARAMOUNT [257/ $14,798]	3,803,094	-39%	16,937,733
5	3	ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: ROAD CHIP (PG), FOX [312/ $8,047]	2,510,519	-29%	9,913,605
6	3	THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG), WALT DISNEY [310/ $7,618]	2,361,721	-37%	11,666,711
7	2	SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS MOVIE (G), FOX [283/ $6,511]	1,842,479	-31%	5,247,291
8	2	POINT BREAK (M), ROADSHOW [261/ $5,568]	1,453,225	-55%	4,773,295
9	3	JOY (M), FOX [256/ $4,723]	1,209,203	-57%	7,303,398
10	3	SUFFRAGETTE (M), TRANSMISSION [116/ $6,034]	699,922	-40%	3,337,451
11	9	SPECTRE (M), SONY PICTURES [78/ $4,884]	380,962	-22%	35,347,461
12	11	THE DRESSMAKER (M), UNIVERSAL [80/ $4,129]	330,297	-38%	19,407,229
13	3	THE BELIER FAMILY (M), PALACE [26/ $10,953]	284,766	-25%	1,296,357
14	7	HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 (PG), SONY PICTURES [118/ $2,313]	272,967	-55%	11,554,300
15	8	THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 (M), ROADSHOW [78/ $3,493]	272,485	-55%	29,810,190
16	3	YOUTH (MA15+), STUDIOCANAL [38/ $5,037]	191,412	-48%	960,325
17	1	WAZIR (MA15+), MINDBLOWING FILMS [15/ $9,921]	148,814	N/A	148,814
18	2	MR. SIX (MA15+), CHINALION FILM [14/ $7,778]	108,895	-72%	515,152
19	PR	THE BIG SHORT (M), PARAMOUNT [7/ $13,999]	97,994	N/A	97,994
20	1	THE HIMALAYAS (M), DREAMWEST PICTURES [11/ $8,670]	95,370	N/A	95,370

[Ball Lightning]

Thursday numbers: Goosebumps ($840k), The Revenant ($630k), Star Wars ($590k), The 5th Wave ($570m) And Sisters($430k)

 

The Hateful Eight got $113k from the 6 screens it's on nationwide currently in it's limited run.

 

Great start for Goosebumps!

Edited January 15, 2016 by Ball Lightning

[CJohn]

That is insane for Goosebumps considering it is already widely available to download illegally and came out in America 3 months ago.

 

Also, is that good for The 5th Wave? What would be the correspondent OW in America? 

[JJ-8]

That is insane for Goosebumps considering it is already widely available to download illegally and came out in America 3 months ago.

 

Also, is that good for The 5th Wave? What would be the correspondent OW in America? 

Yeah. I'd say we are looking at around 3.5m for goosebumps and over 2m for the 5th wave.

If that holds its the equivalent of 20m in the U.S. which would be a great result if it happens.

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[Ball Lightning]

The Revenant will easily be #1 with roughly $3.5m, Goosbumps and Star Wars should both be roughly $3m and The 5th Wave at $2.2m. 

[Ball Lightning]

The Hateful Eight powers on with $0.45m from only 6 theaters.

[JJ-8]

The Revenant will easily be #1 with roughly $3.5m, Goosbumps and Star Wars should both be roughly $3m and The 5th Wave at $2.2m. 

Nice start by goosebumps. 5th wave stronger than expected. A good result especially if it translates stateside.

Stunning hold by the Revenant. TFA's hold isn't too shabby either given how much it's earnt already. ok so TFA should be clear of 85m. One more good hold left before the holidays supporting it finish up. Should go close to clearing 90m before holidays end. I think it will finish with about 95m or so.

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[DeeCee]

8 hours ago, Ball Lightning said:

The Hateful Eight powers on with $0.45m from only 6 theaters.

I think they are all 70mm film projections.  It's got 4 sessions per day at $25 per ticket in the big 800 seat theatre at Event George St.  I was looking on the weekend and the sessions were pretty full.

 

Only showing in Sydney and Melbourne.

 

Sydney

Event George St

Ritz Randwick

Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace, Cremorne

 

Melbourne

Sun Theatre, Yarraville

Village, Rivoli

Astor Theatre, St Kilda

Edited January 17, 2016 by DeeCee

[Ball Lightning]

Correct, I should be seeing it at The Astor on Wednesday hopefully! It'll be interesting to see the drop that The Revenant has against it this weekend. But it's going to be a long weekend with Australia Day on Tuesday this year. 

[Ball Lightning]

Most Popular Films For Period Weekend, Jan 14 - 17, 2016 WIR = Weeks In Release
No	WIR	Title	$	%	Total $
1	2	THE REVENANT (MA15+), FOX [255/ $14,194]	3,619,458	-9%	9,602,039
2	5	STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (M), WALT DISNEY [421/ $7,099]	2,988,814	-39%	85,123,278
3	1	GOOSEBUMPS (PG), ROADSHOW [331/ $8,728]	2,888,963	N/A	3,238,563
4	1	THE 5TH WAVE (M), SONY PICTURES [195/ $11,205]	2,184,952	N/A	2,184,952
5	2	SISTERS (MA15+), UNIVERSAL [294/ $7,355]	2,162,471	-34%	7,041,788
6	1	THE BIG SHORT (M), PARAMOUNT [183/ $9,783]	1,790,278	N/A	1,892,107
7	4	DADDY`S HOME (PG), PARAMOUNT [283/ $5,764]	1,631,243	-33%	17,991,879
8	4	ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: ROAD CHIP (PG), FOX [289/ $3,711]	1,072,392	-21%	10,990,911
9	4	THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG), WALT DISNEY [279/ $3,424]	955,276	-31%	12,621,987
10	3	SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS MOVIE (G), FOX [302/ $2,586]	781,117	-23%	6,031,550
11	1	CAROL (M), TRANSMISSION [90/ $8,180]	736,191	N/A	859,985
12	PR	THE HATEFUL EIGHT (R18+), ROADSHOW [6/ $107,478]	644,869	N/A	644,869
13	3	POINT BREAK (M), ROADSHOW [220/ $1,761]	387,486	-61%	5,164,075
14	4	JOY (M), FOX [175/ $1,826]	319,604	-60%	7,624,340
15	4	SUFFRAGETTE (M), TRANSMISSION [103/ $2,328]	239,823	-45%	3,577,274
16	1	DETECTIVE CHINATOWN (M), CHINALION FILM [14/ $10,612]	148,566	N/A	148,566
17	12	THE DRESSMAKER (M), UNIVERSAL [79/ $1,865]	147,352	-28%	19,555,297
18	4	THE BELIER FAMILY (M), PALACE [26/ $5,548]	144,235	-22%	1,440,592
19	9	THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 (M), ROADSHOW [53/ $2,366]	125,379	-31%	29,938,897
20	10	SPECTRE (M), SONY PICTURES [50/ $2,283]	114,139	-59%	35,461,600

[Robertron]

$95m looks like it might be the absolute max for SW7. 

 

Absolutely ridiculous that weve had another film gross this much especially considering the rest of the all time list. 

[DeeCee]

It really does show how Avatar over-performed here relative to Domestic.

[DeeCee]

Final figures released by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) show a total box office of $1,226,315,433, beating the previous record in 2010 by over $120 million.

 

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/australian-box-offices-enjoy-biggest-year-ever-in-2015-20160121-gmaobj.html

[Robertron]

1 hour ago, DeeCee said:

Final figures released by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) show a total box office of $1,226,315,433, beating the previous record in 2010 by over $120 million.

 

http://m.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/australian-box-offices-enjoy-biggest-year-ever-in-2015-20160121-gmaobj.html

Absolutely incredible.

Take out SW7 and JW and the record still would've fallen which just makes it that much more impressive. 

[DeeCee]

The Hateful Eight had $163,202 per screen.

 

Most Popular Films For Period Week, Jan 14 - 20, 2016 WIR = Weeks In Release
No	WIR	Title	$	%	Total $
1	2	THE REVENANT (MA15+), FOX [255/ $19,401]	4,947,295	-16%	10,929,876
2	1	GOOSEBUMPS (PG), ROADSHOW [331/ $13,584]	4,496,447	N/A	4,846,047
3	5	STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (M), WALT DISNEY [421/ $10,208]	4,297,586	-40%	86,454,680
4	1	THE 5TH WAVE (M), SONY PICTURES [195/ $16,306]	3,179,624	N/A	3,179,624
5	2	SISTERS (MA15+), UNIVERSAL [294/ $10,598]	3,115,943	-35%	7,995,260
6	4	DADDY`S HOME (PG), PARAMOUNT [283/ $8,682]	2,457,134	-36%	18,817,770
7	1	THE BIG SHORT (M), PARAMOUNT [183/ $13,308]	2,435,378	N/A	2,537,207
8	4	ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: ROAD CHIP (PG), FOX [289/ $6,528]	1,886,518	-25%	11,805,037
9	4	THE GOOD DINOSAUR (PG), WALT DISNEY [279/ $5,746]	1,603,100	-32%	13,295,812
10	3	SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS MOVIE (G), FOX [302/ $4,523]	1,365,847	-26%	6,616,280
11	1	CAROL (M), TRANSMISSION [90/ $11,935]	1,074,114	N/A	1,197,908
12	PR	THE HATEFUL EIGHT (R18+), ROADSHOW [6/ $163,202]	979,213	N/A	979,213
13	3	POINT BREAK (M), ROADSHOW [222/ $2,500]	554,950	-62%	5,331,988
14	4	JOY (M), FOX [180/ $2,572]	462,885	-62%	7,767,621
15	4	SUFFRAGETTE (M), TRANSMISSION [103/ $3,609]	371,711	-47%	3,709,162
16	12	THE DRESSMAKER (M), UNIVERSAL [79/ $2,937]	232,049	-31%	19,650,648
17	4	THE BELIER FAMILY (M), PALACE [26/ $8,388]	218,078	-23%	1,514,435
18	1	DETECTIVE CHINATOWN (M), CHINALION FILM [14/ $13,160]	184,235	N/A	184,235
19	10	SPECTRE (M), SONY PICTURES [50/ $3,191]	159,559	-58%	35,506,780
20	9	THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 (M), ROADSHOW [54/ $2,870]	155,001	-43%	29,983,179

[baumer]

So it looks like, just like the Canadian Dollar, the Aussie dollar has fallen sharply against the US dollar.  If SW had come out in the summer, well, I guess your winter, in other words, in june or may instead of now, it might have made another 10-15% just in terms of exchange rate.

[JJ-8]

ok some reasonable results there....

 

Spectre will end just under 36m and is the 2nd biggest bond here behind only Skyfall (though it was a fairly large drop off from that film).  To be honest this should have been expected as Skyfall had a perfect storm to make it's nearly 49m gross 3 years ago.

 

Mockingjay Part 2 will finally cross 30m this weekend (or least by tuesday at the latest) but it end as the lowest / weakest of the Hunger Games films.  I still believe this was a step up from Mockinjay Part 1 and probably deserved more but i guess either way it's a good result as while this was the lowest grossing of the 4 films it was only just under the first films gross here.  still disappointing and i had really hoped it would actually outgross MJ1 here.  Catching Fire remains the largest of the 4 films with just under 40m.

 

Star Wars The Force Awakens is finally coming back to earth with some normal grosses.  over 86m now and should have 1 final weekend before a big drop off as the school holidays end after this weekend around the country (well in most states).  It should at or near to 88m after this weekend is all said and done.  90m should happen at this point but i'm not seeing 95m anymore and i am expecting the final total to wind up around 91m to 92m. (see the comparison chart i'll post below as to why)

 

The Dressmaker is still trying to reach the elusive 20m total here.  unless it can avoid the post holiday drop off i think it's total will wind up just short of the mark.  Still a great result and it doesn't really matter... but yeah.

 

Alvin and the chipmunks has seen some drop off from the previous film but this was expected.  frankly > 10m is a great result for this here..  Same can't be said for the Good Dinosaur though.  I think Disney would have been expecting a total much much closer to 20m or even past it by now.    13m in the till now and while it should reach 15m when all is said and done i doubt it goes much further than this total (it could still miss 15m if the drop off is steeper than expected after this weekend or this weekend isn't as a good a hold either).  Daddy's Home looks to be big winner banking what looks like a final total above 20m. (it could even reach the mark this weekend) I thought at most a 10m total here for it but it has surprised with a excellent run both here and stateside.

 

Oscar bait The Revenant has started off well with over 10m in the bank after 2 weeks an a great hold already under the pillow.  I think a total north of 20m is likely right now especially if it wins big at the oscars.  Watch this space.  Lastly, Hateful 8's crazy start in limited fashion is something we don't often see in Australia.  thats a fantastic average right now, but will it translate to bigger totals when it finally goes wide (which i think is this weekend).  I'm not so sure that it will, but we shall see.  

 

The coming weekend will be an interesting one how it plays out.  Usually we have a 3 day long weekend (with the holiday on monday) but this year, we have a normal weekend with a public holiday on the tuesday rather than the monday.  How this helps or hinders box office goers i'm not sure as many are taking the monday off work (whether by annual leave or sickness )  essentially making much of the country on a 4 day weekend which could well, even with school starting in most places wednesday, see a interesting boost to the box office over the next few days till tuesday.

 

some showdows will follow .... for Bond & MJ2 + of course TFA

[JJ-8]

James Bond Showdown

 

Final Version of the Chart.  As noted, Spectre will up short of 36m.  Which is the 2nd biggest Bond here.  It also compares well to the other 2 Daniel Craig bond films.  Of course the comparison falls away when looking at Skyfall but that film had a perfect storm for it's final total which is hard to replicate.

 

Either way great result.... here's the chart.

 

Wk	Casino Royale	Quantum of Solace	Skyfall	Spectre
	06-Dec-06	24-Nov-08	22-Nov-12	12-Nov-15
1:	6.7m/6.9m	9.7m/11.8m	12.3m/12.6m	11.3m/12.1m
Scns/Ave	401/17,100	476/20,439	580/21,215	618/18,315
2:	3.7m/13.2m	4.2m/18.8m	7.7m/24.8m	5.5m/20.7m
%Drop	-45%	-57%	-37%	-52%
3:	2.4m/17.4m	2.5m/22.6m	4.2m/32.2m	3.4m/25.8m
4:	2.8m/21.8m	1.6m/25.2m	3.2m/37.2m	2.1m/29.1m
5:	2.1m/25.7m	1.0m/26.9m	2.4m/41.0m*	1.6m/31.6m
6:	1.3m/28.0m	785k/28.2m	2.0m/43.9m*	655k/33.0m
7:	830k/29.5m	587k/29.5m	966k/45.7m	472k/33.8m
8:	630k/30.5m	277k/29.5m	629k/46.8m	424k/34.7m
9:	450k/31.2m	123k/30.1m	437k/47.5m	279k/35.2m
10:	227k/31.6m		246k/48.1m	114k/35.5m
			*Estimated
TOTAL:	32.2m	31.0m	48.4m	35.51m

[JJ-8]

The Hunger Games Showdown

 

Like bonds above, this is pretty much final.  Mockingjay Part 2 should pass 30m at this point unless it's completely ripped out of cinemas today!  Unlike bond, I have to say i'm disappointed as I expected to see an uptick but then i guess like many, i didn't see so much attention being soaked up by the behemith that is Star Wars. (Frankly I think that both this and Bond would have made at least a few more million without TFA in the picture.)

 

Oh well 30m isn't anything to sneeze at and still a good result and overall while it's the lowest grossing it's not miles from the other 3 films in the franchise who all ended in the 30m range.  not a bad strikerate in the end.

 

Wk	The Hunger Games	Catching Fire	Mockinjay Part 1	Mockinjay Part 2
	22-Mar-2012	21-Nov-2013	20-Nov-2014	19-Nov-2015
1:	9.1m/9.1m	12.5m/12.5m	11.9m/11.9m	9.8m/9.8m
Scns/Ave	471/19,218	580/21,545	574/20,771	624/15,757
2:	4.8m/16.2m	6.8m/22.7m	5.8m/20.9m	5.2m/17.9m
3:	3.2m/21.3m	3.5m/28.3m	3.0m/25.7m	2.8m/22.4m
4:	2.3m/26.0m	2.2m/32.0m	1.8m/28.7m	2.0m/25.5m
5:	1.5m/28.4m	1.4m/34.4m	1.2m/30.8m	883k/27.3m
6:	683k/29.8m	1.1m/36.0m	663k/32.2m	474k/28.4m
7:	398k/30.4m	838k/37.5m	564k/33.3m	370k/29.3m
8:	184k/30.7m	470k/38.5m	176k/33.6m	176k/29.7m
9:	101k/30.9m	269k/39.0m		125k/29.9m
10:	44k/31.0m
TOTAL:	31.1m	39.19m	33.83m	29.98m

 

 

[JJ-8]

Biggest Film of All Time

 

No matter how you cut it The Force Awakens has been an amazing force at the box office.  The records it broke are almost endless with the key ones being Opening Weekend Opening Day, Single Day, but if you start that big then holding on for weeks on end just isn't possible, aka Avatar, Titanic etc.  Star now sits after 5 weeks of play at 86.5m which is still the fastest film to that total.  However sometime in the next fortnight, Avatar will finally catch up and surpasse as it's holds were out of this world.  By the end of week 7 Star Wars will have finally lost the battle which at the beginning suddenly look possible.  either way Star Wars will wind up past 90m and should end somewhere between 90m and 95m unless there is a substantial re-release.  I guess we will have a little longer before we ever get a 2nd 100m film.  One thing for sure it's good to finally see a film in the humongous gap between Titanic and Avatar.  Surely we will start to see more films make it past titanic which to be honest continues to stand the test of time with only 2 films since it closed in 1998 making it past that total.  In saying that the only films to do so have blown way past Titanic's amazing total.  and I do agree that Avatar's performance must now be regarded as an overperformance.  While it is an overperformance, it still banked that crazy total of 115m and it will yet stand a long while before a film can catch the imagination of the australian and world public again.

 

Week #	Avatar		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2		Jurassic World		Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Released	17/12/2009		13/07/2011		11/06/2015		17/12/2015
(Weekend =  First Line)
Week 0	$931,125	$931,125	$7,029,487	$7,029,487
Week 1 (OW)	$11,962,308	$12,895,497	$18,368,621	$25,460,975	$16,063,693	$16,063,693	$27,254,820	$27,254,820
	$7,349,693	$20,245,190	$5,032,927	$30,493,902	$4,305,083	$20,368,776	$11,286,747	$38,541,567
W/E Screens/Ave	588	20,344	754	24,362	605	26,552	941	28,964
Opening Day			7,029,487		2,735,000		9,425,000
Single Day			7,029,487 (Wednesday)		5,400,000 (Saturday)		9,425,000 (Thursday)
Week 2	$8,749,099	$28,994,289	$7,994,127	$38,488,029	$9,870,007	$30,238,783	$11,800,884	$50,342,451
	$9,772,863	$38,767,152	$2,181,834	$40,669,863	$2,716,344	$32,955,127	$10,604,824	$60,947,275
W/E % Drop	-26.9%		-56.5%		-38.6%		-56.7%
Week 3	$9,659,700	$48,426,852	$3,821,864	$44,491,727	$5,138,426	$38,093,553	$9,001,962	$69,949,237
	$6,475,778	$54,902,630	$1,087,827	$45,579,554	$2,687,516	$40,781,069	$5,017,486	$74,966,723
Week 4	$8,338,365	$63,240,995	$2,263,723	$47,843,277	$3,599,657	$44,380,726	$4,917,825	$79,884,548
	$5,032,850	$68,273,845	$551,975	$48,395,252	$2,052,562	$46,433,288	$2,249,767	$82,134,315
Week 5	$7,002,454	$75,276,299	$1,290,573	$49,685,825	$2,742,799	$49,176,087	$2,988,963	$85,123,278
Week 6	$5,604,268	$84,804,886	$756,945	$50,871,843	$1,087,749	$51,072,113
Week 7	$4,548,004	$92,706,581	$444,594	$51,496,017	$588,156	$51,962,096
Week 8	$3,936,622	$98,374,262	$278,941	$51,887,115	$297,809	$52,440,054
Week 9	$2,850,321	$102,615,052	$176,046	$52,143,114	$107,902	$52,601,800
Week 10	$1,874,114	$105,454,142	$92,347	$52,399,104	$52,303	$52,687,047
Week 11	$1,709,239	$107,859,934	$74,512	$52,419,937	$33,750	$52,736,860
Week 12	$1,003,500	$109,539,127			$23,909	$52,767,785
Week 13	$780,998	$110,866,504			$22,892	$52,795,399
Week 14	$561,868	$111,653,739			$8,907	$52,808,171
Week 15	$323,301	$112,170,651			$1,283	$52,809,776
TOTAL:	$115,600,481		$52,611,276		$52,814,845		$86,454,680