Box Office: shiny toys and a Sugar film

Quiet times for Australians in the box office, but That Sugar Film takes the biscuit as the highest grossing local doc since 2007.
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Sweet audience figures fall from the skies for filmmaker Damon Gameau.  

That Sugar Film has now become the hero documentary of modern times. It has taken $1,241,818 at the box office, beating Mrs Carey’s Concert which took $1,164,548 in 2011. That is a raw figure; I am not sure what it would be in constant dollars, and the vagaries of deals may mean that the Concert put more people into the cinema. Close either way, and they basically link together to define success.

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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.