Box Office: Who runs the world? (Horse) Girls!

Ride Like a Girl is first out the gate in the box office this week, and the Australian horse racing flick was indisputably met with a hero’s welcome on the school holiday screens. Debuting on top of the Australian box office this weekend, the film brought in $1,665,034 over 270 screens, for a tasty screen average of $6,167. And of course it did – what’s not to love? Sport, a feisty underdog, complicated dads, the rabid glorification of a culture of gambling and animal abuse – the Transmission feature of dubious progressive merit is blockbuster gold.