Crocodile Dundee 1986

[HesAPooka]

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=crocodiledundee.htm

 

Made 174m domestically which would be something like 400m today. Was the second highest grossing movie that year behind Top Gun which made 179m. Incredible considering it's a comedy without any big name stars and the unique plot.

[DeeCee]

And it was only last year that Finding Dory knocked it out of the top 10 all time in Australia.

 

 

[DeeCee]

Also, the "shrimp on the barbie" tourism ads actually predate Crocodile Dundee. Americans would have only known Paul Hogan from those ads. 

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_on_the_barbie

 

In Australia he was well known from the very popular Paul Hogan Show. 

 

 

 

[75Live]

yeah I think it was a lot of people's first taste of all things Australian, even if it wasn't all accurate

 

It just seemed to hit people and made Australian stuff almost a fad.

 

Plus this part always got everyone laughing

 

 

[franfar]

The legs on this were insane (ik, films generally had better legs back then). 

 

9 weekends at #1, then didn't leave the top 10 until it's 25th week the following year, in March.

 

A true phenomenon. 

[HesAPooka]

On 2017-02-08 at 3:34 PM, franfar said:

The legs on this were insane (ik, films generally had better legs back then). 

 

9 weekends at #1, then didn't leave the top 10 until it's 25th week the following year, in March.

 

A true phenomenon. 

That's pretty crazy, I didn't look into the specifics I always just remembered how this movie made slightly less than Top Gun which is considered a massive box office success.

[DeeCee]

I just noticed that it was finally knocked off #1 by Star Trek:The Voyage Home.  Another fish out of water story.

[jb007]

One of the best pure entertainers. I watched it with no prior information. I loved it. Paul Hogan was perfect. This has tremendous repeat value. Must have watched it over 50 times in the last 30 years. A true classic in its own right. 

 

Its run was spectacular to say the least. Agree with others that this was a true phenomenon.

[aabattery]

Was looking up some other stuff and came across the fact that this had a 23.5% market share in it's year of release in Australia. If something did that in the US today it would make like $2.5 billion.

 

Pretty insane box office run from whatever way you look at it.

[John Rambo]

20 hours ago, aabattery said:

Was looking up some other stuff and came across the fact that this had a 23.5% market share in it's year of release in Australia. If something did that in the US today it would make like $2.5 billion.

 

Pretty insane box office run from whatever way you look at it.

So you mean in AUS majority of the population watched crocodile dundee? Considering its low population and 40M+ in the 80s is Mindblowinggg