Box Office

As it has done elsewhere, Zootopia 2 opened its run in the top spot, playing a modest 99 screens here, and taking $849,048. Last weekend’s winner, Wicked: For Good, stepped down to the #2 spot, adding $615,650 from 121 screens…

On 121 screens, Wicked: For Good topped the chart on its opening weekend, its $1,348,709 take being more than 7x its nearest rival. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t dropped to #2, adding $184,493 from 98 screens on its…

On a very round 100 screens, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t took $309,390 on its opening weekend to top the chart. Sandwiched into the second spot by two new arrivals in the top three, Predator: Badlands continued on…

Shot here, and with a considerable number of Kiwis sprinkled through the credits, Predator: Badlands opened here on a modest 87 screens, but comfortably won the weekend with a take of $353,250. Plus previews, it’s sitting at $381,340. Local champ…

Sitting at the top of the chart after its first weekend was Pike River, after putting a lot of effort into Q+A screenings in the run up to the release. However, that tactic worked out just fine for Tinā earlier…

A wholly new top three was the result of counting up the Labour Day weekend’s box office returns, with all the current podium places going to films opening their runs. Regretting You took the top spot, playing on 92 screens…

Tron: Ares closed its second weekend at #1, holding on to the top spot and adding $133,836 off 90 screens. It’s now passed half a mil, with total earnings of $540,249. It was the only one of last weekend’s podium…

Despite some scathing reviews, Tron: Ares took the top spot on its opening weekend here, banking $321,456 off 91 screens. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another reclaimed the #2 spot it lost last weekend to for-one-weekend-only Taylor Swift |…

On 111 screens, The Bad Guys 2 saw out the school holidays in the #1 slot, ended Sunday with a weekend take of $494,984, up around $50K on its performance on the previous weekend. It now has a gross take…

On 111 screens, The Bad Guys 2 took advantage of the school holidays, ending Sunday with a weekend take of $455,941 to top the chart, and with a gross take to date of $1,424,972. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After…

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…

After last weekend saw an all-new top three, this weekend saw only one of those titles hang on to a podium spot. Taking over the top spot was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, which played 67 screens. Weekend…

This weekend’s box office delivered a couple of reasonably rare occurences: a completely new top three and the sight of last weekend’s #1 title (André Rieu’s 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away!) dropping not only out of the top…

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…

Opening on 98 screens, The Naked Gun took $253,211 and the top spot over the weekend, for a total of $297,511 including previews. Weapons dropped into the #2 spot, playing on 83screens over the weekend, and added $170,795 to push…