With audiences emerging from lockdown in South East Queensland, Cairns and regional Victoria, DC/Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad held no. 1 at the box office, narrowly defeating Disney’s new sci-fi, Free Guy.
Collectively the two films had a 64 per cent market share, proving the key choices for those still able to go to the movies.
On Friday, cinemas in the nation’s capital closed as the Act entered lockdown, and the next day those across all of regional Nsw shut as a statewide lockdown was imposed. Theatres in Greater Sydney have been closed for eight weeks now, while Melbourne’s cinemas are also shuttered.
Majestic Cinemas operates across regional Nsw and parts of Queensland, and CEO Kieren Dell tells If the lockdowns are “predictably devastating”, particularly with major releases like The Suicide Squad and Jungle Cruise doing decent business. In one small blessing, the Nsw release of Free Guy had already moved to September.
Collectively the two films had a 64 per cent market share, proving the key choices for those still able to go to the movies.
On Friday, cinemas in the nation’s capital closed as the Act entered lockdown, and the next day those across all of regional Nsw shut as a statewide lockdown was imposed. Theatres in Greater Sydney have been closed for eight weeks now, while Melbourne’s cinemas are also shuttered.
Majestic Cinemas operates across regional Nsw and parts of Queensland, and CEO Kieren Dell tells If the lockdowns are “predictably devastating”, particularly with major releases like The Suicide Squad and Jungle Cruise doing decent business. In one small blessing, the Nsw release of Free Guy had already moved to September.
- 8/17/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
With 16 million Australians in lockdown last weekend, the box office prospects for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad were fairly slim.
The DC/Warner Bros.’ standalone sequel, effectively a ‘do-over’ of 2016’s critically panned Suicide Squad, still mustered $1.4 million from 305 screens, a decent opening average of $4,635.
Indeed, the Margot Robbie and Viola Davis-starrer was the main film audiences still able to go the cinema turned out for, boasting a 50 per cent market share.
According to Numero, the top 20 titles made just $2.7 million, 40 per cent down on the previous – unsurprisingly the lowest tally this of year.
Cinemas in Sydney and parts of regional Nsw, Victoria and South East Queensland were all closed, while mask wearing indoors remains compulsory in many other areas of the country.
Majestic Cinemas, based across regional Nsw and Queensland, had three of eight sites locked down over the weekend, representing about 50 per cent of screens. Covid...
The DC/Warner Bros.’ standalone sequel, effectively a ‘do-over’ of 2016’s critically panned Suicide Squad, still mustered $1.4 million from 305 screens, a decent opening average of $4,635.
Indeed, the Margot Robbie and Viola Davis-starrer was the main film audiences still able to go the cinema turned out for, boasting a 50 per cent market share.
According to Numero, the top 20 titles made just $2.7 million, 40 per cent down on the previous – unsurprisingly the lowest tally this of year.
Cinemas in Sydney and parts of regional Nsw, Victoria and South East Queensland were all closed, while mask wearing indoors remains compulsory in many other areas of the country.
Majestic Cinemas, based across regional Nsw and Queensland, had three of eight sites locked down over the weekend, representing about 50 per cent of screens. Covid...
- 8/10/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
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