By Sam Dallas
Summer Coda has posted similar numbers to Australia/French co-production The Tree in its opening weekend.
The Richard Gray film, starring Rachael Taylor and Alex Dimitriades, took in $64,307 in its opening weekend, from 24 screens, giving it an average of $2679. This adds to the film's preview screen tally of $7865.
Filmed in and around Mildura, Summer Coda is the first feature film from Victorian production team Revival Film Company.
Dean Francis’ Road Train – which opened in just South Australia last Thursday on seven screens – had a similar opening to Triangle earlier this year, posting $6063, giving it a screen average of just $866.
The $2.2 million film, starring Xavier Samuel and Sophie Lowe, tells the tale of a group of four teenagers on a camping holiday in outback Australia who are the victims of road rage and end up pursued by a driverless road train.
Animal Logic animated movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole made an additional $211,755 while teen action flick Tomorrow, When The War Began took in an extra $137,230 during its eight week.
Life As We Know It, which had funding from Village Roadshow, made second spot making $1,934,444 losing to Paranormal Activity 2, which made $2,665,028 across 185 screens.
The Tree made $17,891 from 16 screens in its fourth week while Kiwi movie Boy took in another $44,685.
|
Film
|
Budget
|
Distributor
|
Opening w/e
|
Box Office
|
|
Tomorrow …
|
$27m est.
|
Paramount
|
$3,862,193
|
$13,269,717
|
|
Legend of the Guardians
|
$100m est
|
Roadshow
|
$1,363,070
|
$4,403,850
|
|
The Tree
|
At least $10m
|
Transmission/Paramount
|
$69,838
|
$287,119
|
|
Bran Nue Dae
|
$6.5m
|
Roadshow
|
$1,612,102
|
$7,637,358
|
|
Animal Kingdom
|
$5m est.
|
Madman
|
$604,139
|
$4,879,642
|
|
Beneath Hill 60
|
$9.5m
|
Paramount/Transmission
|
$548,694
|
$3,209,471
|
|
Daybreakers
|
$20m est.
|
Hoyts
|
$1,064,244
|
$2,448,050
|
|
I Love You Too
|
$6m
|
Roadshow
|
$113,483
|
$2,361,411
|
|
Bright Star
|
$16.7m est.
|
Roadshow/Hopscotch
|
–
|
$2,157,601
|
|
Boy
|
–
|
Paramount/Transmission
|
$275,026
|
$1,766,231
|
|
Matching Jack
|
$5m est.
|
Fox
|
$258,011
|
$807,621
|
|
The Waiting City
|
$2m est.
|
Hopscotch
|
$136,892
|
$675,476
|
|
South Solitary
|
$6.5m
|
Icon
|
$132,240
|
$628,700
|
|
Accidents Happen
|
$6.5m est.
|
Hopscotch
|
$39,721
|
$157,131
|
|
Summer Coda
|
–
|
Jump Street/Sharmill
|
$64,307
|
$79,063
|
|
Road Train
|
$2.2m
|
Pinnacle Films
|
$6,063
|
$6,063
|
|
Love, Lust & Lies
|
–
|
Beyond Entertainment
|
$20,674
|
$136,595
|
|
Second Hand Wedding
|
–
|
Potential/Arkles
|
$13,680
|
$79,967
|
|
Lou
|
–
|
Kojo Pictures
|
$27,371
|
$59,505
|
|
Girl Clock!
|
$1m
|
Self-distributed
|
$8,857
|
$51,728
|
|
Separation City
|
$4.8m
|
Hoyts
|
$15,278
|
$32,159
|
|
Triangle
|
$8m est.
|
Icon
|
$6,081
|
$11,282
|
|
Going Vertical
|
–
|
The Pack/Blue Sea Films
|
$3,879
|
$9,699
|
|
Savages Crossing
|
$3.5m
|
MediaKin/GAP
|
$4,432
|
$8,651
|
|
The Nothing Men
|
|
Anchor Bay Films
|
$4,518
|
$6,679
|
|
Playing For Charlie
|
$1.2m
|
The Pack
|
$2,665
|
$5,867
|
|
The Horseman
|
$500,000
|
Umbrella Entertainment
|
$2,270
|
$3,328
|
|
The Tumbler
|
–
|
The Pack
|
$203
|
$358
|
Source: MPDAA, INSIDEFILM. Separation City is a NZ film. Bright Star released Dec 26, 2009; tally does not include 2009 box office.