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RELEASE OF AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTIONS

Cinema box office: UK

Australian films earning over £200,000 gross at the UK box office, 1979–2008

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Note that Gallipoli spent a week at the top of the UK charts in 1981, but box office figures are not available so it cannot be ranked.

Rank	Title	Distributor	Release date	Gross box office¹ (£)
1	Babe	Universal	1995	20,280,379
2	Crocodile Dundee	20th Century Fox	1986	20,072,802
3	Happy Feet	Warner Bros	2006	18,916,097
4	Moulin Rouge	20th Century Fox	2001	18,496,366
5	Crocodile Dundee II	UIP	1988	13,324,673
6	Muriel’s Wedding	Buena Vista	1995	8,005,616
7	Australia	Fox	2008	7,971,640
8	Green Card (Australia/France)	Warner Bros	1991	5,030,887
9	The Piano	Entertainment	1993	4,848,517
10	Shine	Buena Vista	1997	4,415,599
11	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Columbia/EMI	1985	4,100,000
12	Babe: Pig in the City	Universal	1998	4,081,908
13	The Delinquents	Warner Bros	1989	3,507,768
14	Strictly Ballroom	Rank	1992	3,028,000
15	Young Einstein	Warner Bros	1989	2,838,099
16	Sirens (Australia/UK)	Buena Vista	1994	2,640,396
17	Mad Max 2	Columbia/EMI	1982	2,500,000
18	Paws	PolyGram	1998	2,175,278
19	The Dish	Icon Film	2001	1,789,460
20	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Buena Vista	2002	1,745,070
21	Wolf Creek	Optimum	2005	1,681,422
22	Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (Australia/US)	UIP	2001	1,634,645
23	Charlotte Gray (Australia/UK)	FilmFour	2002	1,587,185
24	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Rank/PolyGram	1994	1,544,183
25	The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course	Fox	2002	1,395,144
26	Lantana	Winchester	2002	1,165,894
27	The Man Who Sued God	Content	2003	1,106,354
28	Dark City	Entertainment	1998	909,657
29	Mad Max	Columbia/EMI/Warner	1979	700,000
30	Lightning Jack	Buena Vista	1994	677,305
31	The Proposition (Australia/UK)	Tartan	2006	670,422
32	Dead Calm	Warner Bros	1989	579,199
33	Ned Kelly (Australia/UK)	UIP	2003	524,022
34	Jindabyne	Revolver	2007	485,569
35	Black Robe (Australia/Canada)	Entertainment	1992	470,000
36	The Castle	UIP	1998	444,015
37	Holy Smoke	FilmFour	2000	323,851
38	Japanese Story	Tartan	2004	299,092
39	Oscar and Lucinda	Fox	1998	280,245
40	Map of the Human Heart (Australia/Canada/UK)	Rank/PolyGram	1993	271,528
41	Flirting	Warner Bros	1991	271,354
42	Little Fish	Tartan	2006	233,658
43	Chopper	Metrodome	2000	211,987

Source: ACNielsen EDI (Australia).

Notes:
Includes Australian productions and productions with overseas partners where creative control is shared (i.e. with a mix of Australians in key creative positions).
1. Cumulative box office, as reported on 16 April 2009. Earnings are in current dollars (i.e. not adjusted for inflation).