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From the Daily Telegraph, Australia"War of the World Record in Cinemas - The first major blockbuster to bring September 11 imagery to the multiplex has broken a number of records on it's release.
Staring Tom Cruise, the Steven Spielberg adaption of the H.G. Wells classic earned $1,192,263 on it's first day in Australia. Not only is it the second biggest opening day behind Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, it's also the biggest opening for a movie starring Tom Cruise and also any movie made by Steven Spielberg.
The box office figures dismiss fears of a backlash against Cruise in defence of Nicole Kidman following his latest public love affair with Katie Holmes.
The film, which also stars Sydney's Miranda Otto, should kick start the Australian box office - which is currently 11% down from the same time last year. The anticpation and heft behind the $169 million film seems to have outweighed Tom Cruise's dubious publicity exploits of recent weeks.
It would appear that, in Australia at least, people have decided the movie is good, and that they have decided that Tom's real life antics won't stop them seeing it.