Top of the pops at the Australian box office this week is Space Jam: A New Legacy, a hybrid animation/live-action pic being described in Hollywood as state of the art for the form and hugely better than the original, which is a decade old. It is officially in its first week but the previews made $5.1 million so the total is now $8.7 million, bulked up by the use of basketball star LeBron James.
Canadian/Australian Buckley’s Chance is still around after four weeks, having lost a third of its screens to 97 and reaching $804,000. It took $33,000 last weekend which is pretty fatal. It will go down in cinema history as the film least helped by a dog in modern memory. But it could have – no pun intended but grabbed anyway – a decently long tail in smaller markets.
