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The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius interview
The Artist may be silent but it’s proved deadly on the award circuit. Next stop: Oscars.
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Any Questions for Ben?
The Working Dog team returns with a riff on the quarter-life crisis.
The Artist
French actor Jean Dujardin plays a falling star in the final days of silent cinema.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Catch Rooney Mara’s Oscar-nominated turn in the title role.
The Descendants
Alexander Payne directs Clooney as a suffering family man from Hawaii.
Weekly Box Office
| Title | Class. | Distributor | Weeks | Screens | Screen avg. | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little White Lies | MA15+ | Eone/hopscotch | 1 | 22 | $4,295 | $0.2 | |
| 2 | Snowtown | MA15+ | Madman | 5 | 28 | $2,610 | $0.9 | |
| 3 | Get Low | M | Rialto | 4 | 28 | $1,009 | $0.5 | |
| 4 | Incendies | MA15+ | Eone/hopscotch | 9 | 15 | $1,634 | $1.1 | |
| 5 | Of Gods And Men | MA15+ | Sony Pictures | 4 | 5 | $4,708 | $0.3 | |
| 6 | Angele And Tony | M | Palace | 5 | 14 | $1,142 | $0.3 | |
| 7 | Blame | MA15+ | Pack Screen | 1 | 5 | $2,466 | $0.1 | |
| 8 | Ready | PG | Eros Australia | 3 | 13 | $655 | $0.3 | |
| 9 | Babies | G | Madman | 7 | 13 | $558 | $0.5 | |
| 10 | Warren Miller's Wintervention | EX | Ice Edge Marketing | 4 | 1 | $6,645 | $0.3 |
Top 10 box office results for all films in limited release (50 screens or less) for the week ending 15 February, 2012. Results are sorted by screen average. Source: Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
| Title | Class. | Distributor | Weeks | Screens | Screen avg. | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bridesmaids | MA15+ | Universal | 1 | 0 | $- | $8.8 | |
| 2 | The Hangover Part Ii | MA15+ | Warner Bros | 4 | 0 | $- | $29.6 | |
| 3 | Super 8 | M | Paramount | 2 | 0 | $- | $6.1 | |
| 4 | X-men: First Class | M | Fox | 3 | 0 | $- | $12.5 | |
| 5 | Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | M | Walt Disney | 5 | 0 | $- | $26.3 | |
| 6 | Oranges And Sunshine | M | Icon | 2 | 0 | $- | $2.1 | |
| 7 | Water For Elephants | M | Fox | 6 | 0 | $- | $10.7 | |
| 8 | Little White Lies | MA15+ | Eone/hopscotch | 1 | 0 | $- | $0.3 | |
| 9 | Snowtown | MA15+ | Madman | 5 | 0 | $- | $0.9 | |
| 10 | Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil | G | Roadshow | 7 | 0 | $- | $1.9 |
Top 10 box office results for all films in release for the week ending 15 February, 2012. Results are sorted by screen average. Source: Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
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