Australian Box Office Report (10th - 13th June 2004)

[FilmBuff84]

Here's the top 20 films at the Australian Box Office for the weekend Thursday the 10th to Sunday the 13th of June 2004.

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Potter casts his spell again

(1) (Debut) HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
(2) (1) THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
(3) (2) TROY
(4) (Debut) DAWN OF THE DEAD
(5) (3) RAISING HELEN
(6) (4) THE PUNISHER
(7) (6) SUPER SIZE ME
(8) (5) VAN HELSING
(9) (7) WARREN MILLER'S STORY
(10) (Preivew Screenings) MEAN GIRLS
(11) (Debut) DIRTY PRETTY THING
(12) (9) INTERMISSION
(13) (18) TWIN SISTERS
(14) (11) STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
(15) (12) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
(16) (19) BON VOYAGE
(17) (17) THE COOLER
(18) (15) WONDROUS OBLIVION
(19) (New) ROAR: LIONS OF THE KALAHARI
(20) (8) KILL BILL: VOLUME 2

Improving on both the debuts of its predecessing films, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN settled in comfortable at Number 1 this past week with a staggering $11,935,745 (US $123,260,560), surpassing THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW as the Number 1 Highest Debut of 2004. Speaking of the Dennis Quaid disaster pic, it only declined 39% in its 3rd week to bring a still healthy $2,201,247, which takes its total to a nice $15,355,257 (US $158,573,895). Also declining 39% and racking up a good sum is buffed Brad's battles in TROY. The Wolfgang Petersen directed epic managed $1,074,978 in this, its 5th week of release taking its total to $20,766,144 (US $214,452,180). Vastly improving on its Advance Screening run last week, horror re-invisioning DAWN OF THE DEAD slipped into the Top 5 with a cool $1,050,498. All together the Sarah Polley led blood bath has $1,098,119 (US $11,340,286). Kate Hudson's feelgood family comedy RAISING HELEN is doing alright for itself, this week it only trailed 29%, and after 2 weeks it has an impressive $2,859,141 (US $29,526,378) to its name. Rising 12%, SUPER SIZE ME still does itself proud, this week crossing the Million dollar mark. After 2 weeks in national release and one week of Advance Screenings, the doco has $1,102,724 (US $11,387,841) to call its own. Before it opens nationally on the 24th, Lindsay Lohan's MEAN GIRLS had a small round of Preview Screenings which earned her a place at #10 with $107,534 (US $1,110,504). The impressive gritty thriller DIRTY PRETTY THINGS just missed out on a Top 10 debut, slipping in at #11 with $101,465 (US $1,047,830). Still hanging around in the Top 20, but likely to be leaving soon, is Paul Hogan's queer comedy STRANGE BEDFELLOWS and the trippy Jim Carrey experience ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, which dipped 35% and 34% respectively in their 8th and 9th week of release. They haven't performed badly, with the former scoring $4,709,266 (US $48,632,637), whilst the latter managing $3,234,033 (US $33,397,891). Falling a heavy 74% in its 8th, and likely last, week, Quentin Tarantino's killer continuation KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 rounds out the charts this week, with an impressive $8,331,412 (US $86,038,576).

THIS WEEK (June 17th): Shrek gets sequalized.

SHREK 2

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IN THE WEEKS TO COME: Mean Girls, Club Dread, The Prince & Me, Spider-Man 2, New York Minute

FLASHBACK: This time last year
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2 Fast is 2 Good
(1) 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS
(2) THE MATRIX: RELOADED
(3) BULLETPROOF MONK
(4) THE CORE
(5) A MAN APART

Highest debut - BULLETPROOF MONK -$855,355
Highest gross - THE MATRIX: RELOADED - $30,278,797

To co-incide with Harry Potter's sizeable first week intake, thought i'd post the Top 10 Highest Grossing debuts of the year so far.

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1) HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN - $11,935,745
2) THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW - $6,664,837
3) TROY - $6,641,426
4) VAN HELSING - $4,596,027
5) STARSKY & HUTCH - $3,452,026
6) THE LAST SAMURAI - $3,401,421
7) KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 - $3,065,308
8) THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST - $2,973,157
9) 50 FIRST DATES - $2,916,328
10) SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER - $2,907,592

[Unicron]

Holly School Holidays Batman! $11,935,745 opening weekend!!!!

No dout in my mind that Mr Potter would cash in big time!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone $9,249,505
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets $10,640,941
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban $11,935,745

I see a trend happening here :D:D

The Day After Tomorrow still going strong, which is good to see with a impressive sum of $15,355,257 (US $158,573,895) so far

As For next week. Well.....One Release thats having HUGE media exposure. Shrek 2 will clean up Harry Potter

Opening weekend prediction $13million+

Keep up the great work FilmBuff

[FilmBuff84]

I was expecting it big for HP. Maybe the next one will manage 12 or 13 million.

I wonder if Shrek 2 will beat out HP. Could happen. June is really shaping up well this year.