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The 28th biggest film in the country!

We got some stats in and Ange & The Boss took over A$43,000 at the box office in its first week across 15 screens making us the 28th most successful film in the country. Yay for us!

We were no doubt bolstered by some incredible Q&A attendances. We sold out the Nova (twice), Classic, Lido and Westgarth in Melbourne and Pentridge was very full too. On Monday, we motored between pre screening Q&As at Norton Street Leichardt and post screening Q&As at Ritz Randwick and they were both sell outs too. One memorable moment in a hectic week was when the sound went down during the 1991 Grand Final part of the film at the Ritz. The pictures were playing, but the audio was just the musak that was pumping through the whole complex. I went into a frenzy, sprinting around the cinema looking for somebody to fix the issue, because in this era, the quaint projectionist you imagine perched in the flickering crow’s nest at the top of the cinema like Alfredo from Cinema Paradiso is actually a put upon 19 year old simultaneously selling ice creams at the candy bar two levels below.

I eventually found a person, and when I returned my co director Cam was at the front of the cinema, getting laughs from the crowd because he could exactly quote what the interviewees in the Grand Final section were saying. Well played Cam. We replayed the last twenty minutes at the end of the Q&A, but I was so impressed by his performance in a crisis.

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It’s not like this.
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It’s more this.

We are the 28th most successful film in the country and I’ve never been prouder to come in 28th. Self directed, produced, funded, distributed, publicised — it’s like we’re a third division club who have snuck into the main draw of the FA Cup. And it’s happened because the film is beautiful, it absolutely deserves to be in the main draw as this review in The Australian evidences. We had another wonderful week of laughs and tears and messages from audience members explaining what this film meant to them.

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Cam, Tony and Rob Heath at the Classic, Elsternwick

The film now goes into it’s second week. We have anther blockbuster set of Q&As at Hobart tonight (Thurs 20th), Nova tomorrow (Fri 21st with guest Alan Davidson), Cameo and Thornbury Saturday, Geelong and Thornbury Sunday, Thornbury Tuesday and then Brisbane (Thurs 27th, Danny Wright and John Kosmina at the Five Star New Farm), and the Picadilly in Adelaide on the 29th. Can we hang onto 28th place? It’s unlikely, but we do feel a groundswell of word of mouth. Tell friends to go. All sessions are up at angeandtheboss.com.

It’s also worth mentioning that there are non Q&A sessions in every state. They are mainly through the Palace independent cinema network, but again, they are all up on our website. We were the fourth most popular film at the Nova last week, and we’ve been programmed three sessions a day for this week two.

I’ll list them below.

Thanks for all your help and encouragement. It’s been a long journey, and I’ve felt a lot of love this week. Thanks also to Speakola and Good one, Wilson readers who are being patient with a film barrage in this important period.

Best wishes

Tony

All sessions and tickets

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Melbourne

Thursday 20 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
7.00 Nova

Friday 21 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
6.40 Nova
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink and Socceroos legend and 1991 GF player Alan Davidson

Saturday 22 March

10.55 Nova
12.50 Brighton Church St
3.00 Cameo Belgrave
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink
3.00 Nova
3.30 Palace Westgarth
4.15 Palace Pentridge
5.00 Palace Balwyn
6.00 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink
7.00 Nova

SOLD OUT

Sunday 23 March

10.55 Nova
12.00 Brighton Church St
2.20 Palace Balwyn
3.00 Nova
3.30 Palace Westgarth
4.00 Palace Pentridge
5.50 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with directors Tony Wilson & Cam Fink, with DAVID BRIDIE
7.00 Nova

SOLD OUT

Monday 24 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
7.00 Nova

Tuesday 25 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
6.10 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with directors Tony Wilson & Cam Fink
7.00 Nova
8.20 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink

SOLD OUT

Wednesday 26 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
7.00 Nova

Thursday 27 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
7.00 Nova

Sunday 30 March

10.55 Nova
3.00 Nova
5.30 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with directorsTony Wilson & Cam Fink
7.00 Nova

SOLD OUT

Sunday 6 April

4.45 Thornbury Pic House
Q&A with Tony Wilson

Hobart

Thursday 20 March

1:30pm State Cinema

3:45pm State Cinema

6:00pm State Cinema
Q&A with PETER GEE and director Cam Fink

Canberra

Thursday 20 March

11.00 Palace Electric

Friday 21 March

11.00 Palace Electric

Saturday 22 March

10.00 Palace Electric

Sunday 23 March

10.00 Palace Electric

Tuesday 25 March

11.00 Palace Electric

Wednesday 26 March

11.00 Palace Electric

Sydney

Saturday 22 March

3.00 Norton Street

Sunday 23 March

3.00 Norton Street

Geelong

Sunday 23 March

1.00 The Pivotonian
Q&A with STEVE HORVAT (96 NSL appearances, 32 Socceroos caps), and directors Tony Wilson & Cam Fink

SOLD OUT

Tuesday 25 March

7.15 The Pivotonian

Perth

Thursday 20 March

11.00 Palace Raine Square
1.30 Palace Raine Square

Friday 21 March

11.20 Palace Raine Square
1.50 Palace Raine Square

Saturday 22 March

10.45 Palace Raine Square

Sunday 23 March

10.15 Palace Raine Square
5.30 Palace Raine Square

Monday 24 March

11.00 Palace Raine Square
1.30 Palace Raine Square

Tuesday 25 March

11.00 Palace Raine Square
1.30 Palace Raine Square

Wednesday 26 March

10.15 Palace Raine Square
1.00 Palace Raine Square

Brisbane

Thursday 27 March

6.30 The Barracks
Q&A pre-film with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink

6.30 Five Star New Farm
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink plus 1991 Hellas star Daniel Wright and Socceroos legend John Kosmina.

Adelaide

Thursday 20 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Friday 21 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Saturday 22 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Sunday 23 March

12.45 Palace Prospect

Monday 24 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Tuesday 25 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Wednesday 26 March

3.00 Palace Prospect

Saturday 29 March

7.00 Picadilly,North Adelaide
Q&A with Tony Wilson & Cam Fink

Mildura

Saturday 29 March

TBC Wallis Cinema

New Zealand - Wellington

Thursday 3 April

6:00pm Roxy Cinema, Miramar, Wellington
Q&A with director Cam Fink

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