Still at #1, on 118 screens, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes took $426,032 over last weekend and now has a gross of $2,702,471.
New arrival at #2, Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Indian action film Animal played a modest 40 screens, taking $372,796 on its opening weekend – winning the per screen takings by a very long way with an average of over $9,000.
Napoleon dropped one spot to #3, taking $282,952 from 115 screens. Its gross at the end of the weekend was $989,243, and the film has now passed $1 million.
Uproar has had its biggest fall since its release, falling from #13 on the last weekend of November to #23 on the first weekend of December. It took $1,895 from 19 screens to gross $790,926, and the film now looks likely to end its run just shy of $800,000.
Tom Sainsbury’s Loop Track played 5, adding $817 for a gross of $71,068, while Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour played 12, adding $246 to total $57,182. Bad Behaviour’s per screen average of $20.50 was among the week;’s worst, but eclipsed by Disney’s The Creator average take of $2.60 from screens.
Anton Steel’s Taking Back Our Beach added $22 off 2 screens, and has now taken $32,461.
Four local titles played a single screen over the weekend. Reaching the end of its theatrical run, Gwen Isaac’s Ms. Information has grossed $79,987. Returnees Coco Reo Maori, What We Do in the Shadows and Building Bridges: Bill Yourens Vision of Peace all had a run out, with Shadows the best performer, taking $251.
Thanks to Numero for generously supplying the data our box office reports use.
