The Wild Robot made the most of the last weekend of the school holidays, playing on 122 screens and adding $501,035 – almost twice as big a take as its closest rival. It’s now taken $2,302,703.
The not-even-close second placed film was Transformers One, which added $253,729 from 105 screens for a total take so far of $1,410,329.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice placed third, taking $141,079 off 85 screens to gross $2,543,166.
Last weekend’s #2, Joker: Folie à Deux, dropped to #4. The poor reviews caught up with the film, whose opening weekend take of $680,254 dropped by well over 75%, to $140,332.
Steady at #6, Aussie family-friendly Runt played 101 screens, adding $108,606 for a total of $410,609.
Opening at #13, Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake played 62 screens. It took $26,790 and had a total of $57,721, presumably including NZIFF screenings.
Holding at #22, Encanto Reo Maori added $10,176 from 11 screens, lifting its total to $223,003.
Produced by ex-pat Lizzie Gillett, the Sundance-premiered doco Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story opened on 15 screens, taking $6,926 to add to festival screenings, for $15,375.
NZIFF opener We Were Dangerous played 35 screens for earnings of $2,530, with its gross now $566,361.
Bookworm added $1,472 from 29 screens, and has now taken $464,795.
Fergus Grady & Noel Smyth’s 2019 doco Camino Skies popped up on a single screen, taking $75 for a total of $343,075.
This week’s openers are mostly smaller or niche appeal titles, with Paramount horror Smile 2 probably the highest profile and CatVideoFest 2024 meowing a challenge to YouTube’s domination of feline-flavoured films.
As always, huge thanks to Numero for the data that powers our box office reports.
