Box Office – 16 July 2018: tripping over tentpoles as holidays end

Some commercial English language films get a hard time in our cinemas, as micro budgeted local films arrive for an instant.
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Image: from the Gurrumul film.

Gurrumul is looking positively legendary. This modest Indigenous documentary is a music film, a genre which does well quickly but tends to evaporate. It has been out for 13 weeks, is on nine screens and gained 56% this weekend. Mind you, that is only $11,536 in the till at $1282/screen, but it is still inching towards $1m at $933,385.

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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.