Who saw André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away! opening in the top spot? Not Andrea Bocelli, we’d guess, but it did. Playing on 78 screens, it took $227,798.
Now at #2, The Naked Gun took $175,387 from 102 screens, comfortably passing half a million to close the weekend with a total take of $555,632.
Weapons dropped into the #3 spot, playing on 75 screens, and adding $123,829 for a cumulative $1,208,917.
At #4, celebrating 50 years of giving sharks a bad name, the anniversary outing of Jaws took $96,028 from 66 screens.
Curtis Vowell’s Workmates played 29 screens for earnings of $5,050 and a total take (excluding festival appearances) of $18,978.
Having passed six months in cinemas last week, Tinā added a modest $195 from 4 screens. It’s now amassed $6,483,627 and (following the departure of A Minecraft Movie) is now the highest-earning first-run title currently in NZ cinemas.
Doco The House Within, played 8 screens, taking $657, and now has a gross of $46,138.
On 2 screens over the weekend, Kōkā added $40 for a $240,676 total take.
New arrivals this week will include Margaret Gordon’s local doco Life in One Chord, the story of Shayne Carter, and Disney’s R16 title The Roses, a reimagining of 1980s title War of the Roses, pitting Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman against one another in the roles originally played by Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.
Our thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
