Most weekends, a new arrival takes the top spot and pushes the previous top three titles further down or off the podium. Not this weekend, as last weekend’s #1 fell to #3, and last week’s second- and third-placed titles climbed up to fill the void.
Taking over the top spot from Demon Slayer, was last weekend’s #2, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, which played 112 screens and added $337,799 for a gross of $1,076,441.
The Conjuring: Last Rites climbed back up to #2, taking $227,705 from 80 screens to total $2,002,288.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle dropped down to #3. On its second weekend it added $218,413 to pass $1 million for a gross take of $1,150,306.
The weekend’s best-performing new arrival (at #5) was family-friendly Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie, which played on 90 screens and took $90,810.
Of the local titles, Life in One Chord was again the best performer. From 14 screens, it earned $4,297 to lift its total take to $83,414.
At the end of their respective runs, Workmates took $881 from 4 screens, to total $25,628, while Kōkā added $240 from a single screen, and now has a gross of $242,116.
Local titles putting in a return appearance over the weekend included Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds, which added $1,402 for $230,508. Each playing on a single screen, The Dead Lands , adding $354 for $1,128,821; Bookworm, taking $204 for $468,694; and The Haka Party Incident, adding $38 for $115,349.
Openers this week include Michelle Walshe & Lindsay Utz’s Sundance-premiered and NZIFF-featured doco Prime Minister, which has got some media attention over the last week as people have been busy complaining that it’s missed some bits of the story out.
Also arriving is One Battle After Another (which could have been an alternate title for Prime Minister) but in this instance is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, featuring turns from Leonardo Dicaprio and Benicio Del Toro.
Our thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
