In the face of plenty of international media coverage on how poorly it’s performing, The Marvels topped the chart here on its opening weekend. It played 103 screens, taking $456,989 for a gross including previews of $578,315.
Five Nights at Freddy’s and Killers of the Flower Moon both dropped a place, to #2 and #3 respectively. Five Nights took $145,220 from 86 screens, growing its total to $1,489,345. Playing on the largest number of screens over the weekend, 108, Killers added $93,530 to pass $1 million and close the weekend having taken $1,040,780.
10 local titles played over the weekend, although the one that’s performed best in the last few months – River of Freedom – didn’t screen.
At #6, Uproar played 68 screens and remained the best-performing local title, taking $31,516 to gross $727,083.
At #8, Tom Sainsbury’s Loop Track faced competition from other locals and a very negative review from RNZ’s Simon Morris. Luckily for the film, RNZ listeners probably aren’t the film’s core target demographic. Loop Track added $15,088 off 42 screens, for $50,728.
Released at the same time as Loop Track, Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour played on 37 screens, taking $5,203 to gross $49,987.
On 15 screens, Gwen Isaac’s Ms. Information added $2,690 for $68,886.
Five of the other six NZ titles played a single screen, while Taking Back Our Beach played 7 screens, and now has a gross of $30,477.
Frozen Reo Maori, Cousins, Stylebender, Avatar: The Way of Water and Building Bridges: Bill Yourens Vision of Peace all had single-screen outings.
Thanks to Numero for generously supplying the data our box office reports use.
