Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis left cinema executives all shook up over the weekend with the second-highest opening for an Australian film in box office history.
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in Queensland with the backing of Hollywood studio Warner Bros and Australian federal and state filmmaking incentives.Baard said tracking surveys of just over 400 patrons leaving Australian cinemas showed 91 per cent ratedA Star Is BornFifty-six per cent of the film’s weekend audience were female and, despite expectations the film would largely appeal to older viewers who are fans of Presley’s music, 50 per cent were aged under 44.
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