I went to one of the Sydney Screenings for the movie on Monday - Peter O'Donoghue who is the editor - co writer on the film and a Sydney sider did a short Q&A. Nothing that we dont already know but I did record it.
Its probably been said, but the film cemented that 2011 and ALLLL those flights and money was not a waste. Not that I thought it was a waste but you sometimes think in hindsight - anyway totally worth it + infinity.
Not hi fi - kind of low fi recording done on a iPad.
It was about half full in the IFI on Saturday, Eamonn. I was never in the place before and have to say I much preferred the Lighthouse in Smithfield where I saw Bowie Is last year. It was being shown in three cinemas in Dublin - Lighthouse, Parnell St, and IFI which I thought was quite a lot for Dublin. Bowie Is only got one screening in Dublin last August which was sold out and could have sold a lot more. Reading some Irish forums it sounds like most people went to The Lighthouse (who are apparently showing it a number of times in coming days) and I think that was the right choice
So, £58,000 takings with people paying an average of a tenner(?) gives an overall attendance of 5,800 around the country. Based on each cinema showing it once (which isn't strictly true) and it being screened in just over 100 cinemas, the average attendance was about 50 which sounds decent enough to me (the Sheffield screening and other big theatres like the BFI will of course distort that average).