Box Office 16 October 2017 – Ali hangs in, Mountain touches space, Blade Runner … erk.

Ali's Wedding and Mountain are alive and well, but the tentpoles are a touch mediocre. And the Americans fear the annual results will be dismal, betrayed by October.
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Image: set photo of Blade Runner 2049.

Ali’s Wedding is still trundling along. $1.176m, 46 cinemas, $860/screen. Mountain is pushing the documentary bar higher with $1,910,375 off 31 screens at $1055/screen. 

The Lego Ninjago Movie has made $5.2m here in four weeks, screen numbers down to 282, at $886/screen. $65.8 from the US, and $123m around the world. In per capita terms the film is doing way better in Australia than in an other non-North American territory, with no release in either China or the UK. We have absolute parity with the US. 

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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.