New arrival How to Train Your Dragon, the live action remake of the 2010 animated original, took the win over the weekend, playing 110 screens for $1,122,683.
At #2, another live-action remake and last weekend’s #1, Lilo and Stitch added $310,105 from 102 screens, for a total of $4,073,774.
In third place, another new arrival, Celine Song’s drama Materialists, played 100 screens, and collected $269,114 for a gross including previews of $332,728.
There’s quite the number of Aussie films playing here at the moment, with Dangerous Animals the best-performing of the bunch over the weekend. On 45 screens, it took $18,958. Across the ditch, and also on its opening weekend there, it took AU$215,000.
Tinā added $11,716 for a total of $6,393,837 here. In Aussie, it passed AU$3 million last week, and that looks to be the last major milestone it’ll hit there, having added AU$30,771 over the weekend for AU$3,163,857. The film’s creative team has been announced for a session at Big Screen Symposium, by which time the film will have been in cinemas for an incredible 19 weeks.
The Philippou Brothers’ Bring Her Back took $11,264 here from 21 screens, for $195,944. Across the ditch on home turf, it took AU$240,948 and passed AU$2.2 million.
A Minecraft Movie added $5,065 to end the weekend with $9,999,938 – $62 shy of the $10 million mark. If it doesn’t collect that off its screenings this week, we’ll have a whip-round.
Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds added $2,572 to lift the doco’s take to $220,377.
Aussie horror The Surfer, starring Nicholas Cage, added $1,040 for a total of $10,396 here. Despite quite a lot of pre-release hype and positive word-of-mouth, it’s also not performing so well in Australia, where it’s racked up just below AU$250,000 after 5 weeks on release.
Local indie drama The People We Love returned to weekend screenings, playing 6 screens and adding $932. It now has a gross take of $38,128.
This week’s new arrivals include 28 Years Later and Kath Akuhata-Brown’s Kōkā, which has been enjoying some preview screenings over the last week or so.
Thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
