Australian cinema has bounced back, with local films setting a record at the box office in this country at the weekend, and achieving their highest share of overall box office since 2001. Revenue for Australian movies at the Australian box office in 2015 now stands at $64.09 million, according to figures collected by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia. That passes the previous record of $63.4 million set for the full year in 2001. The Australian share of box office is 6.8 per cent, also the highest since 2001, though a long way from the record of 23.5 per cent, set in 1986, the year in which Crocodile Dundee swept all before it. This year's revenue figure is a little more than $500,000 short of the combined totals of 2013 ($38.5 million) and 2014 ($26.2 million), years when Australian audiences stayed away from local movies in droves. The biggest Australian film of the year by a long shot is George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road (right), with receipts of $21.65 million. 
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