Party film Project X tops Aussie box office
A film about a house party that gets out of control has topped the Australian box office over the weekend, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
Project X, produced by Todd Phillips (The Hangover) with Joel Silver (The Matrix, Sherlock Holmes) among others executive producing, took $1.28m at the box office in its first weekend out.
The film opened across 222 screens for a screen average of $5,764.
It was the feature film debut of Nima Nourizadeh directing a cast of relative newcomers, Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper.
Iranian film A Separation, directed by Asghar Farhadi, which last week won the Oscar for best foreign language film, opened this week very strongly despite being in limited release.
The film is fun and different so great to see it do well against the other “blockbusters”
Wait a minute, what happened to Any Questions For Ben? Out of cinemas (or at least out of the Top 20) after just 3 weeks?!?! Wow. Talk about a massive flop! Was it a shit movie? (I didn’t see it). Shit marketing? (horrible trailer & poster, almost no social media impression despite it targeting 20-somethings). Maybe it was just a crap premise? (I had no interest in seeing it, neither did the rest of Australia, evidently). Thoughts?? Answers??
I just looked up session times for Any Questions For Ben? Most screenings are during the day. Only 3 after 5pm anywhere in Melbourne.
An Australian short film on youtube based on the same concept. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKp0DJ5Usnk&feature=g-upl&context=G2d8b38cAUAAAAAAAAAA
Australian feature party movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ek2c9jZ20&feature=context&context=G2d8b38cAUAAAAAAAAAA