A Minecraft Movie hung on to the top spot over the weekend, taking $1,444,042 from 122 screens, to push its gross take to $4,434,424.
Two new arrivals took the other podium positions. At #2, André Rieus 75th Birthday Celebration: The Dream Continues played 70 screens to take $226,388.
At #3, The Amateur played 97 screens, taking $219,661.
Experienced its first weekend outside the top three, Tinā played 106 screens and adding $185,258 to take its total to $4,865,583. A bit of school holiday love and good luck should see it pass $5 million in the next couple of weeks.
The Rule of Jenny Pen was down to 7 screens, its $809 take pushing it to $47,196, and it’s touch and go whether or not it’ll pass $50K.
Three local docos played over the weekend. Project Fiftyone added $2,149 for a total of $7,457; Rebecca Tansley’s 2015 Crossing Rachmaninoff played a single screen, took $410 and has now grossed $74,175; and Maurice & I took $267 from 2 screens for a total of $354,519.
This week’s crop of new arrivals includes an odd school holiday mix of horror/thrillers Drop and Sinners, plus Aussie Kriv Stenders’ The Correspondent, the based-on-a-true-story of Peter Greste, the Aussie journalist detained for over a year in Egypt.
Thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
