Only one change occurred in the top three over last weekend, with a new arrival taking bronze.
Dune: Part Two remained on 114 screens and on top, adding $1,100,908 for a total $3,361,318.
Bob Marley: One Love remained second, adding $131,766 from 105 screens to take its gross over $2,049,424.
Ling Jia’s Chinese comedy Yolo (above) played on 14 screens and took an impressive $103,904 on debut.
Aussie thriller Force of Nature: The Dry 2 played 97 screens, for a take of $902, and has now grossed $292,045.
Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins took $450 from a single screen, and now has total earnings of $1,351,901.
Several titles in contention for the Oscars, which handed out its gongs on Monday, were taking advantage of the attention around the event by being on release or re-release here and elsewhere. They included Anatomy of a Fall, Poor Things, The Boy and the Heron, The Holdovers, and The Zone of Interest. – all of which took away at least one statue.
Despite playing a lot of advance screenings in a lot of cinemas over the weekend, ahead of its official release date of 14 March, The Convert didn’t report numbers. No major studio releases start their runs this week – presumably a contributing factor in the choice of release date for The Convert – but also opening are Aussie chiller You’ll Never Find Me, Korean horror Exhuma and Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia.
Thanks to Numero for generously supplying the data our box office reports use.
