Appropriately enough, the last weekend box office chart before Hallowe’en saw lots of titles that focus, in one way or another, on horror.
The most recent adaptation of a computer game, Five Nights at Freddy’s took the top spot. Earning some critical and box office love, it opened here on 83 screens, taking $762,543 to gross $767,689 including previews.
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon dropped from the #1 spot to #2, playing 113 screens and adding $205,449 for $654,975.
Taylor Swift: The ERAS Tour continued on 70 screens, adding $165,319 to comfortably pass the $1 million mark and close the weekend with a gross of $1,163,956.
The top ten openers included Dumb Money at #4, which pushed Uproar (still on 100 screens) to #5. Uproar added $46,472 to total $611,610.
Coco Reo Maori had a single screen outing, taking $1,560 to reach $261,536.
Four other local titles, all docos, continued their runs.
Ms. Information opened at #17, its $8,667 a low take from 23 screens, although its gross of $49,640 – including its NZIFF run – is a primary driver of that low opening weekend number. By contrast, the less vax-friendly River of Freedom added $1,125 to extend its total to $348,339.
Anton Steel’s Taking Back Our Beach added $2,081 to gross $25,501; Zoe McIntosh’s Stylebender took $304 to gross $114,338.
Thanks to Numero for generously supplying the data our box office reports use.
