Family-friendly flicks make for strongest January box office since 2020
The end of summer is still three or so weeks away, and already more than 13.5 million movie tickets have been sold at Australian cinemas, a 9% leap from the previous year.
Moana 2, Wicked, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Mufasa: The Lion King helped bring families to the cinema this summer, with ‘Family’ admissions and the P18-39 youth audience both up 8% from the prior year’s takings (last summer saw the likes of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Disney’s Wish, rom-com Anyone But You, and Universal’s animated bird comedy Migration).
