American Sniper picks off top spot at the box office over the long weekend
Clint Eastwood’s latest film American Sniper stormed the box office over the Australia Day long weekend to take $5.266m across 298 screens.
Since its premiere last Thursday the film, which stars Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and is nominated for best picture at the Oscars, has made $5.627m locally.
Australian film Paper Planes continues to do well at the box office although it could not come close to American Sniper’s bumper effort grabbing $1.675m across 262 screens taking its total local box office takings to $5.157m.
Nice headline. I see what you did there. Should have said Paper Planes continued to soar, and Taken3 snatched third place.
Pretty sure if that headline had appeared in another publication it’d feature in Dr Mumbo. Pretty crass, Mumbrella.
Get your (left) hand off it ‘Sub-Editor’……Excellent use of a low key pun!
There is a great story unfolding here & its all about two Aussie films that are both doing spectacularly well right now. Combined they have grossed over $20m so far this year. You gave scant mention to one of them Paper Planes & ignored the other one completely. But great use of an obvious pun in your headline.