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[BOX-OFFICE]

The domestic opening was soft against the budget but strong against every other Australian film this decade, and both facts are true.

George Miller spent a decade building Furiosa and the audience showed up late, but the film was always playing to a longer clock.

Total box office recovered to $1.1 billion, but the Australian share fell to 3.8 per cent, the lowest in a decade.

Cinemas reopened, audiences returned at two-thirds capacity, and the question shifted from whether they would come back to how many would stay.

Australian films took 4.6 per cent of the domestic box office in 2019, and the number tells you less than you think.

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