WARRNAMBOOL’S Capitol Cinema has done unprecedented business thanks to the popularity of Oddball.
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General manager Greg Gent said it was the biggest movie he had seen in his 12 years at the cinema.
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“The biggest movie this year was Fast & Furious 7 – we had that for two months and it did just under 6000 (ticket sales),” Mr Gent said.
“Oddball did that in its first week and a half. In two and a half weeks it’s done nearly 10,000 tickets.
“In the first week of the school holidays pretty much every session was sold out.”
Oddball has made $6.3m at the box office after two and a half weeks in wide release.
It is #3 at the box office this week behind Pixels and Pan, with takings up 32 per cent on last week.
It wasn’t just Warrnambool where Oddball screenings were packed – the film had the highest per screen takings of any movie, taking an average $12,705 per screen, compared to Pan which took $7,970 per screen.