Africa’s post-Oscar success
- German WWII drama is 26th in US Top 100 and scores the weekend's highest US per-screen average $8609 for 33
Not surprisingly, winning the best foreign film Oscar had a positive knock-on effect on German WWII drama, Nowhere in Africa [+see also:
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film profile] directed by Caroline Link and produced by Peter Herrmann in the US. According to Variety, the WWII story of a German-Jewish family’s African adventure is currently at number 26 in the Top 100 films, and took a reported weekend (4-6 April) box office of $284,104 (Euros265,022) on 33 screens thus bringing its to-date gross to $619,000 (Euros477,425). Nowhere in Africa also scored last weekend's highest per-screen average: $8,609 (Euros8,527). An excellent result for a non-English language film that distributor Zeitgeist plans on extending to around 70 US screens by the end of April.
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