Australia Box Office for The Current War (2019)

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The Current War
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Australia Box Office $308,409Details
Worldwide Box Office $12,869,755Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $201,729 Details
North America Blu-ray Sales $200,200 Details
Total North America Video Sales $401,929
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Synopsis

Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in the story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Thomas Edison is the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse, who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla, have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules.

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$30,000,000
Australia Releases: March 20th, 2020 (Wide), released as The Current War
Video Release: March 31st, 2020 by Universal Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violent content and thematic elements. NOTE: EDITED FOR RE-RATE. CONTENT IS DIFFERENT FROM PG-13 RATED VERSION, BULLETIN NO. 2554 (11/21/18). ONLY THIS EDITED VERSION IS RATED. CHANGE IN RATING DESCRIPTION ONLY.
(Rating bulletin 2587 (Cert #51884), 7/17/2019)
Running Time: 105 minutes
Keywords: Inventor, Biography, Docufiction, Development Hell, Delayed Release, 1890s, Professional Rivalry, Historical Drama, 1880s
Source:Based on Real Life Events
Genre:Drama
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Dramatization
Production/Financing Companies: Lantern Entertainment, SunnyMarch, Filmrights, Thunder Road Film, Bazelevs Company
Production Countries: United States
Languages: English

DVD and Blu-ray Releases for March 31st, 2020

April 2nd, 2020

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

This week Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker comes out on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD and if you think that will scare away most of the competition, you will be correct. This isn’t the worst week I’ve see on the home market, but it is close. Unfortunately, not only is the list rather short, there’s nothing here that jumps out as a Pick of the Week contender. On a side note, Amazon is having... issues, which not only delayed this column, but it means if you want to buy most new releases here right away, you will have to deal with third-party sellers or go somewhere else. More...

Weekend Predictions: Halloween Gives Way to the Holiday Season

October 31st, 2019

Terminator: Dark Fate

It’s the first weekend of November, which is the unofficial start of both the Christmas blockbuster season and of Awards Season. There are four films hoping to take advantage of time of year to create some box office success. Of these, only Terminator: Dark Fate is expected to be a true box office hit. It will likely earn more during its opening weekend than any of the rest of the new releases earn in total. I think Harriet will do okay and could even crack $10 million during the weekend. On the other hand, Arctic Dogs still has no reviews and that’s a really bad sign. Finally there’s Motherless Brooklyn, which is opening in well under 2,000 theaters. This weekend last year, Bohemian Rhapsody opened with more than $50 million and even the high end predictions don’t have Terminator: Dark Fate earning that much. It’s going to be another bad week for 2019 in the year-over-year competition. More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Maleficent Holds Off Joker for Top Spot

October 28th, 2019

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

It was a super close race for top spot on the weekend box office chart with Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Joker neck-and-neck. In fact, they changed positions over the weekend and even reversed positions from the weekend estimates. Both of these films topped expectations by a small degree, as did most of the new releases. Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough, as the box office fell 24% from last weekend to $105 million. This is also lower than the same weekend last year, but by a tiny 0.7% margin. I’m not going to get upset about a decline this small, but it does mean 2019 has fallen further behind 2018’s pace with the deficit growing to $520 million / 5.4% at $9.00 billion to $9.52 billion. More...

Weekend Estimates: Joker Wrestles First Place from Maleficent, Probably

October 27th, 2019

Joker

Joker is returning to first place on the weekend chart with $18.9 million, which is a tiny bit ahead of expectations. However, it is in a close enough race with Maleficent: Mistress of Evil that the pair could switch places when the final numbers show up tomorrow and I wouldn’t be too surprised. Internationally, the film is earning an estimated $47.8 million on 14,000 screens in 79 markets for totals of $571.5 million internationally and $849.1 million worldwide. It is now the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time worldwide, and is on pace to become the first R-rated film to reach $1 billion globally. More...

Friday Estimates: Joker Returns to the Top

October 26th, 2019

Joker

Joker wasn’t gone from top spot for long, as it earned first place on Friday with $5.46 million, putting it on pace for close to $19 million over the weekend. This is very close to our prediction, but it is ranking better, due to marginally-weaker-than-expected competition. It also reportedly became the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time, at least worldwide. It is not going to catch up to The Passion of the Christ domestically. More...

Thursday Night Previews: Black and Blue in the Green

October 25th, 2019

Black and Blue

Black and Blue had the best previews on Thursday with $675,000. I was not expecting the film to have the best previews last night, nor was I expecting it to earn this much. Additionally, its reviews are have improved and are now mixed, in fact, they are currently exactly 50% positive, so it could surprise and top $10 million during its opening weekend. Just over $8 million is more likely, but this is still a solid debut for this time of year. More...

Weekend Predictions: Halloween Scares Away Wide Releases

October 25th, 2019

Black and Blue

The final weekend before Halloween is rarely a good time to release a film and the paltry selection of new releases on this list shows this year will be no different. The Current War: Director’s Cut is the only film earning good reviews, but it is opening in the fewest theaters by far. Countdown has the worst reviews, but it is a horror film opening just before Halloween, so its opening weekend could be okay. Black and Blue is in the middle in terms of reviews, theater count, and box office chances. Sadly, it is very likely all three films will open below $10 million over the weekend. There’s a slim chance none of them open in the top five. By comparison, this weekend last year saw only one wide release, Hunter Killer, which bombed. This year will be much better in terms of new releases, but none of the holdovers will match Halloween on top. 2019 does have much better depth, so I think we will get a small win in the year-over-year comparison. More...

2019 Preview: October

October 1st, 2019

Joker

September ended on a bit of a weak note, but overall the month was excellent helping 2019 gain some ground on 2018. Can October continue this trend? There are certainly some potential box office hits coming out this month, starting with Joker, which opens the first weekend of the month and should be the biggest hit of the month. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is aiming for $150 million and should be a hit, even if it doesn’t match the original at the box office. There are also a handful of films with an outside shot at getting to $100 million and I wouldn’t be shocked if one of them made it to that milestone. Meanwhile, last October, Venom broke records during its opening weekend, while A Star is Born had stellar legs helping both earn more than $200 million domestically. I don’t think the top two films will be able to match that this year, but we do have better depth, for the most part, so perhaps 2019 will continue its winning ways and close ground, at least by a little bit. More...

The Current War Trailer

June 26th, 2019

Historical real-life drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, and Katherine Waterston opens October 4 ... Full Movie Details.

Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in the story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Thomas Edison is the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse, who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla, have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules. More...

The Current War Trailer

September 8th, 2017

Historical real-life drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholar Hoult, and Katherine Waterston opens November 24 ... Full Movie Details. More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2020/03/20 4 $85,587   209 $410   $85,587 1
2020/06/05 - $2,066   3 $689   $2,804 12
2020/06/12 13 $6,162 +198% 11 $560   $10,013 13
2020/06/19 9 $9,686 +57% 32 $303   $22,310 14
2020/06/26 5 $13,921 +44% 54 $258   $42,705 15
2020/07/03 11 $40,123 +188% 140 $287   $89,181 16
2020/07/10 - $22,605 -44% 102 $222   $129,379 17
2020/07/17 - $7,933 -65% 61 $130   $147,200 18
2020/07/24 - $6,027 -24% 43 $140   $159,379 19
2020/07/31 - $869 -86% 20 $43   $164,709 20
2020/10/09 - $1,131   2 $566   $314,229 30
2020/10/16 - $272 -76% 2 $136   $308,409 31

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 3/20/2020 $85,587 209 209 679 $308,409 10/20/2020
China 8/29/2020 $490,000 14878 14878 15322 $720,000 9/15/2020
Germany 7/23/2020 $87,861 0 260 475 $371,048 8/18/2020
Italy 7/17/2019 $431,093 0 11 21 $1,122,401 10/19/2022
Japan 6/19/2020 $159,859 0 0 0 $448,146 7/3/2020
Lithuania 12/6/2019 $7,394 12 12 23 $14,025 1/8/2020
New Zealand 2/27/2020 $25,805 71 71 208 $82,574 10/19/2022
North America 10/25/2019 $2,633,717 1,022 1,082 2,828 $5,978,673
Portugal 10/11/2019 $11,885 21 21 46 $28,156 10/19/2022
Russia (CIS) 12/5/2019 $276,561 767 767 1576 $446,521 10/19/2022
South Korea 8/22/2019 $729,294 276 276 533 $1,522,399 9/18/2019
Spain 1/10/2020 $94,606 94 94 178 $160,908 1/23/2020
Turkey 9/13/2019 $136,679 197 203 705 $543,016 10/19/2022
United Kingdom 7/26/2019 $563,207 487 487 813 $1,123,479 8/7/2019
 
Worldwide Total$12,869,755 10/19/2022

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Lead Ensemble Members

Benedict Cumberbatch    Thomas Edison
Michael Shannon    George Westinghouse
Nicholas Hoult    Nikola Tesla
Tom Holland    Samuel Insull
Tuppence Middleton    Mary Edison
Katherine Waterston    Marguerite Westinghouse

Supporting Cast

Matthew MacFadyen    J.P. Morgan
Stanley Townsend    Franklin Pope
Conor MacNeill    William Kemmler
Simon Manyonda    Lewis Latimer
Damien Molony    Bourke Cockran
John Schwab    Rudolph Young
Louis Ashbourne Serkis    Older Dash

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon    Director
Michael Mitnick    Screenwriter
Basil Iwanyk    Producer
Timur Bekmambetov    Producer
Steven Zaillian    Executive Producer
Martin Scorsese    Executive Producer
Garrett Basch    Executive Producer
Michael Mitnick    Executive Producer
Ann Ruark    Executive Producer
Michele Wolkoff    Executive Producer
Benedict Cumberbatch    Executive Producer
Adam Ackland    Executive Producer
Adam Sidman    Executive Producer
Matthew Patnick    Line Producer
Chung-Hoon Chung    Director of Photography
Jan Roelfs    Production Designer
David Trachtenberg    Editor
Justin Krohn    Editor
Michael Wilkinson    Costume Designer
Justin Ball    Visual Effects Supervisor
Randall Poster    Music Supervisor
Danny Bensi    Composer
Saunder Jurriaans    Composer
Ellen Lewis    Casting Director
Theo Park    Casting Director
Thomas Woods    Supervising Location Manager

The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.