Box Office

The film grossed $AU6.37 million in its opening weekend in Australia, setting the record for the highest grossing opening weekend for an Australian film and bumping the latest James Bond movie Quantum of Solace to second place. Australia’s ticket sales overseas is about $82 million from 51 countries, with the top market, Australia with $23.1 million after five weekends. It opened at No. 1 in Spain, France and Germany but at No. 3 in Britain.

Surprising box office analysts, the film opened #5 in the U.S. behind Quantum of Solace, Twilight, Bolt, and Four Christmases, respectively, with $20 million. However, Fox officials are happy with the numbers, as they said they were expecting only an $18 million opening gross for the movie.  They further pointed out that Baz Luhrmann’s other films, like Moulin Rouge!, Strictly Ballroom, and Romeo + Juliet, started slowly and then built momentum.

In Australia the epic film is set to be the second highest grossing movie ever made in the country, with earnings, as of 4 February 2009, up to $35,805,328.

The film has been a box office success worldwide, despite a disappointing gross in the US, similar to Luhrmann’s three previous films. As of 12 February 2009, the film had grossed $191,559,818 in its partial worldwide releases.

Source: Australia (2008 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia