Cinemas prepare for Boxing Day crowds but Netflix wants you to stay home
Australians spent $6.1 million on movie tickets last Boxing Day, a 24% increase on the 2022 takings, and the perfect cap to a year that saw audiences return to cinemas in droves off the back of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Is Boxing Day at the movies back?
According to HOYTS, this year’s Boxing Day lineup has “a lot more variety” than last, which saw Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom take $2.04 million on the day, Wonka bring in $1.18 million, and Sydney Sweeney rom-com, Anyone But You, take $806,000.
HOYTS predicts Sonic the Hedgehog 3 could take out the top spot this Boxing Day, given its “incredible” pre-sales.
The other films released on December 26 include Better Man – the Robbie Williams biopic in which he is portrayed as a simian – A Real Pain, written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, alongside Succession star, Kieran Culkin; and Anora, in which “a sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and marries the son of an oligarch”.
