Box Office 14 March 2017 – Lion in serious triumph territory

At $156m, Lion has now beaten Hacksaw Ridge's $150m around the world - if we leave out China where it is not running.
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Producer Angie Fielder is just one of the people who is probably stunned in a good way about the results for Lion. Here she is at the London Film Festival before the pic took off. Image: Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for BFI. 

All figures in this article are in Australian dollars. 

The box office results don’t include the holiday Monday for the south-eastern states, so they are probably higher than these figures suggest.

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.