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Box Office 7 November 2016

Hacksaw Ridge does sprightly business while Joe Cinque hangs on stubbornly to its bit of the battlefield.

7 Nov 2016 12:00

David Tiley

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Bladowie! Image: Hacksaw Ridge and Mel Gibson’s exploding vision.

Hacksaw Ridge has opened strongly on 266 screens – wide but not a Blitzkrieg – to make Icon happy with $1.7m at the box office. For a bloodstained film, the average of $6051/screen is pretty good. It took US$14m in North America and is said to cost US$40m. That is okay if the foreign figures are high and/or it hangs on in the US.

The Dressmaker continues to fly the flag in the US with US$1.813m off 45 screens, down 30 in this last weekend.

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David Tiley

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.