Box Office: 12 October and Oddball pants happily along

The horrible disparity in returns between safe films as compared to challenging pics continues. The dog still carries all before it.
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Image: Goodbye Mr Loser 

As we are learning to expect, the highest per screen average at the moment is for a film aimed at a migrant community. Goodbye Mr Loser is on six screens and took $11,200/screen in its first week. Meanwhile, Lost in Hong Kong has taken almost a million in three weeks, currently on eleven screens, and is running out of steam.

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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.