Box Office 24 April 2017 – Berlin Syndrome, Dance Academy and some missing audiences

Carnage in the cinemas and not just on the screen. Hopes have been dashed and dreams are bleeding out in the Autumn rain.
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Image: still from Raw.

 Dance Academy has taken 1.912m in three weeks, is down to 153 screens and is at $1,208/screen. It is now unprotected by the holiday audience and must surely disappear soon. Studiocanal would have hoped for much more. 

Berlin Syndrome (w – Shaun Grant, d – Cate Shortland, p – Polly Staniford) was bought by Netflix for world-wide release after a theatrical orchestrated in the US by Vertical. In Australia, where it already had a distributor, Netflix will run it once the theatrical is played out. 

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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.