The Wolf of Wall Street reclaims box office number one title from Robocop as The Dallas Buyers Club has quiet opening weekend
The Wolf of Wall Street has reclaimed its box office number one title from Robocop bringing in $1.9 million across 330 screens over the weekend, bringing the films Australian earnings to date to a total of $18.28 million.
The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as controversial New York trader Jordan Belfort who made and lost a fortune in the 80s and 90s, lost first position last weekend to the remake of the 80s sci-fi classic RoboCop.
The film, starring Joel Kinnaman, brought in $1.68 million across 227 screens, with Last Vegas coming in third bringing in $1.49 million across 259 screens.
The heavily Oscar-tipped The Dallas Buyers Club made $403,591 across 59 screens in its first weekend after premiering earlier in the week in Australia. The film, which features Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, an electrician and rodeo cowboy who is blindsided with an H.I.V.-positive diagnosis and given 30 days to live, is nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for McConaughey.
AMERICA F**K YEAH THE 3 HOUR COMMERCAIL
This is about as American as a movie gets
America totally dominates this list. Not a single Australian film in sight.
You spelled commercial wrong
Book Thief written by Australian.
There’s more to this list than meets the eye.You just have to look a little harder. Aside from the USA, there are films here from South Africa, the UK, and New Zealand.
The Railway Man is directed by an Australian – Jonathan Teplitzky – and shot in part in Queensland and features an Australian lead actress – Nicole Kidman.There’s an Australian – Margot Robbie – in Wolf of Wall Street, The Book Thief was based on a novel written by an Australian – Markus Zusak – and Saving Mr Banks is about an Australian author – Pamela Lyndon Travers. Week in week out there are very very, very, few Australian films in the top twenty Box Office. Is The Great Gatsby “Australian Film”? Is The Rocket an “Australian film”? That’s a different argument, but what matters is that we do produce a handful of films each year yet the bulk of the cinema going public are interested in what Hollywood dishes up. Same goes for the ARIA music chart where there are more overseas acts represented than local ones. The Lego Movie is doing huge O/S box office, and it had a huge input from Australian creative people.