Elvis has become The Film That Will Not Die. After eight weeks in Australia, it has made $31.05m and still took $608,000 off 278 screens last weekend, as it lost 28% and 36 theatres. Scott Seddon, the President of Independent Screens Australia, an exhibitor and a truly practical businessperson, is pretty happy with that result.
In the US, Elvis has just passed the $200m mark [in AU$ like all the figures in this article] to reach $372m around the world, against a budget of $120m. Most of this bounty comes from English language territories, as the UK comes second with $39m, putting our figures at number three.