Australian Box Office Report (27th - 30th November 2003)

[FilmBuff84]

Here's the Top 20 films sitting at the Oz Box Office for the weekend Thursday the 27th to Sunday the 30th of November 2003.

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Audiences choose Farrell over Ferrell

(1) (Debut) S.W.A.T
(2) (1) SCHOOL OF ROCK
(3) (Debut) ELF
(4) (2) THE MATROX: REVOLUTIONS
(5) (3) THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
(6) (4) MYSTIC RIVER
(7) (5) SEABISCUIT
(8) (6) UPTOWN GIRLS
(9) (9) IN THE CUT
(10) (Debut) GOOD BOY
(11) (7) INTOLERABLE CRUELTY
(12) (13) JAPANESE STORY
(13) (12) CALENDAR GIRLS
(14) (16) SPELLBOUND
(15) (11) KILL BILL: VOLUME 1
(16) (15) GETTIN' SQUARE
(17) (14) LE DIVORCE
(18) (10) RUNAWAY JURY
(19) (18) TITANIC 3D - GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS
(20) (17) PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL

Hollywood 'It' boy Colin Farrell scored yet another hit over the weekend with action outing S.W.A.T going straight to the top with a healthy $2,741,337. This was Farrell's second highest debut behind Daredevil in March which debuted at #1 with $3,237,983. The other major debut of the week belong to Will Ferrell who, after two consecutive Advance Screening weekends, saw his Holiday happy ELF go straight to #3 with $1,040,070. Combined with its previous two week intake, it's managed $1,634,848 all together. In between the two was last week's victor SCHOOL OF ROCK which dropped off 41% in its second week. It still took in $1,231,277, and now has $4,392,950 to its name. REVOLUTIONS and TEXAS CHAINSAW... simultaneously declined 42% in their 4th and 2nd week respectively. The former saw a further $880,659 added to its bank, whilst the latter splattered out an additional $638,661. Their totals sit at $16,159,321 and $2,194,918. Also dropping two places were MYSTIC RIVER, SEABISCUIT and UPTOWN GIRLS. The Clint Eastwood directed drama declined 23% with $526,488, Tobey Maguire and his horse were down 37% with $384,989, whilst Brittany and Dakota saw the largest blow of the group, 45%, with $276,822. Their totals respectively sit at $1,582,257, $2,607,870 and $936,526. Crossing the Million dollar mark this week was Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo getting up to all sorts of naughty in IN THE CUT, which now has $1,142,878. Kiddie feature GOOD BOY placed at #10 on its first week in with $181,383. Continuing to rise and bring in the audiences, even after 10 weeks, Aussie drama JAPANESE STORY increased 14% with $145,620, taking its total to $3,420,810. After 7 weeks in cinemas, QT's KILL BILL looks close to ending its run, this week it was off 55%, with a total so far of $7,769,142. Not too shabby at all. Well cast legal thriller RUNAWAY JURY saw the biggest drop this week, 71%, and down a staggering 8 positions, no doubt due to its screen count going from 171 to 72, with a 5th week intake of $62,552. All together it's taken in $3,092,294. Closing off the chart this week is crowd pleaser PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN, which after 12 weeks in cinemas has scored a comfortable $24,918,905, the third biggest film of the year.

THIS WEEK (December 4th): After a slight absence from the big screen, Russell Crowe bounces back this week in the big budget epic MASTER AND COMMANDER:THE FAR SIDE OFTHE WORLD. The Peter Weir directed drama opens opposite the much smaller CABIN FEVER, which finally hits our screens after 2 release date delays, starring Rider Strong, Cerina Vincent and Jordan Ladd.

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[Unicron]

Great work FilmBuff

SWAT at number one was predictable. ELF i would of thought should of done better. Maybe closer to Xmas and the end of School it should get a boost. Its a great movie!

I cant see the Matrox:D staying around for to much longer. But $16million+ is still impressive

Pirates Of the Carribean did well with $23million as it slipps of the Top20.

Even though i dont like our boy Russell, I am looking forward to Masters & Commanders. Cabin Fever i'll wait for DVD :D:p

Keep up the good work FilmBuff
:cool:

[FilmBuff84]

Thank you very much,,

I thought SWAT was pretty much a sure thing for #1. I thought Elf might makde it to #2, but a #3 debut is nothing to scoff at, and School Of Rock still took in an impressive amount.

Matrix is holding on to the Top 5 much longer than I thought, and I agree it won't last as long as Revolutions, but its total so far is nothing to scoff at.

Master and Commander will be the major release, and I think it has a good shot at #1, but I won't be surprised if it doesn't get there either, I don't know why. I really wanna see how Cabin Fever goes too.

As for your question, I have the US pop. as 292,735,263 and Aus. as 19,978,100. So divided that's (estimate) 14.65. I don't know if I have helped much, but if you wanna try and figure out what they would be in the states, or I can do it for ya, cause i have the whole number to be precisely accurate.

[Unicron]

Originally posted by FilmBuff84

As for your question, I have the US pop. as 292,735,263 and Aus. as 19,978,100. So divided that's (estimate) 14.65. I don't know if I have helped much, but if you wanna try and figure out what they would be in the states, or I can do it for ya, cause i have the whole number to be precisely accurate. [/B]

Sweet, that would be great

[Unicron]

Originally posted by FilmBuff84

As for your question, I have the US pop. as 292,735,263 and Aus. as 19,978,100. So divided that's (estimate) 14.65. I don't know if I have helped much, but if you wanna try and figure out what they would be in the states, or I can do it for ya, cause i have the whole number to be precisely accurate.

Sweet, that would be great

[FilmBuff84]

Next week i'll start adding in the US equivalents, and see how everything pans out.

[Damned Martian]

Originally posted by FilmBuff84
Next week i'll start adding in the US equivalents, and see how everything pans out. Remember to take into account also the difference among ticket prizes. In USA it's around $9.