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Box Office Jan 18 2016: they came, we saw, they plundered

Beyond the eternal adolescence of Star Wars, we have... not much, really as one picture dominates the market so completely.

18 Jan 2016 12:00

David Tiley

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Can we claim to have a national industry if we don’t have a Christmas film? Nowhere Boys: The Book of Shadows is as close as we came this year.

The aggregate box office for the first two weeks of the year was around $8m down on the same period last year. At that point, the total amount of money taken at the Australian box office by US tentpole pictures over December and up to January 11 was $376m. The total for everything else was maybe $60m.

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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.