?Tell Me Sweet Someing? ? a box office succe

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Tell Me Sweet Something a box office success --

Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:44

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Tell Me Sweet Something, a romantic comedy directed and produced by award-winning Akin Omotoso, has been receiving rave reviews since it opened at the cinema on 4 September 2015.

Tell Me Sweet Something tells the story of Moratiwa (Nomzamo Mbatha), an aspiring writer who owns and runs a bookstore in the heart of Johannesburg. The bookstore, like her love life, is not experiencing much success. This all changes when she meets and falls in love with the unlikeliest candidate in the world, Nat (Maps Maponyane), a male model, who has never read a book in his life and is desperate to be loved for his mind not his body.

Now in its fourth week, Tell Me Sweet Something debuted at number five at the South African box office, competing against popular international films, The SouthPaw and Fantastic Four. The film was released on 45 numbers of screens (prints), earning R843 589 revenue in its opening week. In its second week the film grossed at R646 241, an achievement for a local romantic comedy, accumulating a total of R1 646 085. This success encouraged exhibitors to increase the number of cinemas to 47.

However, in its third week the film experienced a decline at the cinema, grossing R233 785, an issue that can be attributed to the reduction of number of screens to 28. This indicates that the more screens the film is released on, the better the chance for more people to see it. It also indicates that if the number of screens (prints) in the high performing sites are reduced, then the numbers will also decrease.

From the successes of Tell Me Sweet Something, we hope that South Africans will keep up the momentum, choosing local films when they visit the cinemas. The box office report constantly points at the lack of support for our local films, however we hope that the support we re experiencing with Tell Me Sweet Something will be the norm and consumers will fill the cinemas to watch local film, says Zama Mkosi, NFVF CEO.

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