Box Office 4 July 2016 – a teeny bit of antipodean joy

Wilderpeople and Chasing Asylum just will not die, while Mustang looks an emerging arthouse grown-ups cult film.
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Image: the ensemble in Mustang. 

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is up to $7.42m, in six weeks on 149 screens, STILL AT JUST OVER $4000/screen.

Chasing Asylum continues its slow motion explosion, as it reaches $437,000 in six weeks. With Cinemaplus behind it, the picture is behaving erratically in these charts. This weekene it was on 12 cinemas at $713/screen and took $8556. But it aint dead yet. 

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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.