Image: Lion gets cuddles from audiences in multiplex glory.
Film executives all over Australia will be gasping with relief over the Thursday opening figures for Lion. It opened on 254 screens and harvested box office as soon as the pixils started to pour out of the projectors.
$748,000 on that first day. That adds up to $3000/screen on a nondescript weekday in the school holidays in the soft third week of January before Australia Day. With $800,000 in previews the picture has already taken $1,549m.
