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WHALE RIDER CONTINUES TO MAKE WAVES

As at 28 August, these are the box office figures for Whale Rider in all the territories the film is playing... New Zealand: NZ$6,250,00; playing 30 weeks; currently on 18 screens; US: US$15,250,000; 11 weeks; 338 screens; Australia: A$8,200,000; 16 weeks; 17 screens; UK: 1,100,000; six weeks; 52

screens; South Africa: US$130,000; four weeks; 10 screens; Germany: $736,000; two weeks; 80 screens; Israel: no figures available (3850 admissions on opening weekend); one week; nine screens. The South Pacific Pictures film opens soon in France, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, and Japan.

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