Still top, Inside Out 2 played 117 screens over the weekend, took $1,097,599 and now has a total take of $6,051,801.
Again in second place, Despicable Me 4 also played 117 screens, adding $775,556 for a gross of $4,291,910.
Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 are the second and third best earners at the NZ box office this year. By this time next week Inside Out 2 will have taken the top spot from Dune: Part Two, which earned $6.41 million.
Twisters span into third place on the weekend chart, on 93 screens, ending its opening weekend with $429,310.
Only three of the weekend’s top ten films were child-friendly (the third being The Garfield Movie). It’s not unusual, as the old song goes, but isn’t that common in the middle of a school holiday.
Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End dropped a couple of places to #6, taking $76,382 from 86 screens for a gross of $660,754. It’s a strong performance, but it’ll need a bit of a second wind to overtake the year’s best-performing NZ title, Rachel House’s The Mountain, which played a single screen over the weekend, adding $295 to lift its total take to $736,627.
That was it for local titles, with neither of the recent releases, Joika and The Moon is Upside Down playing in cinemas over the weekend, although both played weekday screenings last week.
MaXXXine, the R16-rated closer for Ti West’s horror trilogy (of which parts one and two were shot here) took $22,290 from 15 screens on its opening weekend for a take including previews of $36,104.
Part one of Kevin Costner’s western Horizon, the Nicolas Cage-starring horror Longlegs and Thai tear-jerker How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies all open this week.
As always, huge thanks to Numero for the data that powers our box office reports.
