{"id":12589,"date":"2017-06-19T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2017-06-19T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:24:40","slug":"opening-weekend-of-the-promise-in-australia-achieves-box-office-success-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=12589","title":{"rendered":"Opening weekend of The Promise in Australia achieves box office success [PICTURES]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AUSTRALIA: The opening weekend of Armenian Genocide epic, The Promise has achieved the film commendable box office results in Australia, earning it a ranking of 11th among all films and 4th among films that were newly released on the same weekend. <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Promise was released in around 50 movie theatres across Australia, which is what makes its box office takings of over $137,000 the more impressive. It was up against big Hollywood-backed blockbusters, including Despicable Me 3, Wonder Woman, The Mummy, Baywatch and Pirates of the Caribbean &#8211; all of which were comparably being shown in hundreds of theatres nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Promise was the top performing film in Australia, from those which were available in 70 movie theatres or less.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dSiAGtqPFXM?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Promise Australia Committee (made up of members from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancaustralia\/\">Armenian National Committee of Australia<\/a> [ANC-AU], the Armenian General Benevolent Union in Australia [AGBU-AU] and the Armenian Youth Federation of Australia [AYF-AU]) ran a social media campaign called #OperationOpeningWeekend, encouraging all to see the film and take their friends, neighbours, staff and colleagues, on the film&#8217;s opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This seems to have paid off, with members of the community flooding theatres, with many taking their non-Armenian friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Groups of Armenian-Australians &#8211; from Melbourne&#8217;s Armenian organisations, Canberra&#8217;s Armenian community, Sydney&#8217;s Galstaun College, AYF-AU, AGBU-AU, the Armenian Relief Society, Homenetmen Scouts, Hamazkaine dancers and others went to scheduled screenings.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/galstaun-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPIC: GALSTAUN COLLEGE STUDENTS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/agbu-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPIC: AGBU MEMBERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/nigol-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPIC: AYF-AU NIGOL TOUMAN MEMBERS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/canberra-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\nPIC: CANBERRA ARMENIANS<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/home-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPIC: ARS-AU ARAX MEMBERS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other promotional actions were also witnessed on opening weekend &#8211; for example, after a donation by supporter Garbis Kolokossian, AYF-AU&#8217;s Pegor Chapter of Western Sydney handed out dozens of free tickets to random movie-goers at Hoyts Wetherill Park.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/images\/cms\/1\/news\/pegor-promise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Promise has now been seen by many thousands of Australians, many of which are non-Armenians who were previously unaware of the Armenian Genocide story,&#8221; said Kris Korkian of The Promise Australia Committee. &#8220;Mr. Kirk Kerkorian wanted to take the Armenian story to the masses, and in Australia, he has achieved that. We have kept our Promise as a community, but there is still work to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Promise remains in Australian theatres until at least this week, with some cinemas expected to extend it into the second and hopefully further weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Campaigns will continue, and we encourage all to see the film again and push others to do the same,&#8221; Korkian concluded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepromisemovie.com.au\/showtimes\/\">CLICK HERE FOR SESSION TIMES AND TICKET DETAILS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTRALIA: The opening weekend of Armenian Genocide epic, The Promise has achieved the film commendable box office results in Australia, earning it a ranking of 11th among all films and 4th among films that were newly released on the same weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-australia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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