Top End Wedding takes over $1m across first weekend, but fails to touch Avengers: Endgame
Australian romantic comedy Top End Wedding has taken over $1m in its first weekend, beaten only by Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame which pulled $13.6m, giving it a total of $65.7 for the three weeks it’s been in local cinemas.
This week saw Avengers: Endgame, which is the final film in the current phase of the Avengers franchise, hit US$2.2bn in global revenue, putting it in front of Titanic and just behind Avatar in the list of highest grossing films of all time. James Cameron’s Avatar took $2.8bn across 47 days of release.
Miranda Tapsell wrote and stars in Top End Wedding
Er, Disney owns the rights to the “Marvel franchise” since they acquired Marvel Entertainment in 2009. The Fox deal brings licensed Marvel characters like X-Men & Fantastic Four back into the fold.
Why can’t we celebrate Top End’s Wedding’s box office opening weekend success as opposed to comparing it to Captain Marvel and Avengers. Avengers is on 1,000 screens, and is continuing to break box office records, while Top End Wedding has performed well for a local production, on around a 5th of screens given to Marvel. Granted the film is not everyone’s cup of tea, but the film deserves some form of support from Australian media, not a reminder that it does not measure up to a film with a 365 Million USD budget.
Completely agree. Let’s support local talent.