New arrival How to Train Your Dragon, the live action remake of the 2010 animated original, soared comfortably above the new arrivals, up one screen at 111 and taking $910,702 for a total of $2,260,537.
At #2, new arrival 28 Years Later opened on 87 screens, and took $426,298.
The previous weekend’s second-placed Lilo and Stitch dropped one to #3, added $237021 from 100 screens and now has a gross take of $4,353,874.
Kath Akuhata-Brown’s Kōkā opened at #9, with takings of $79,276 from 86 screens, enough to push it to $100,617 including previews.
Tinā added $7,740 from 28 screens, for a total of $6,409,027 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 creative team has been announced for a session at Big Screen Symposium, by which time it will have been in cinemas for an incredible 19 weeks.
A Minecraft Movie added $3,867 and got to celebrate as it went into the weekend with just over $10 million, and ended it with $10,003,924.
Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds added $1,405 from 12 screens, for a gross of $223,276.
Indie drama The People We Love played 5 screens, earning $1,041 for a total of $39,404.
Three older films returned to cinemas for the weekend. Katie Wolfe’s The Haka Party Incident added $1,365 for $114,771; Florian Habicht’s James & Isey took $284 for $595,639; and Virginia Wright’s Project Fiftyone (coincidentally at #52 in the weekend chart) added $50 for $11,833.
This week’s new arrivals include M3GAN 2.0, directed by Gerard Johnstone, and F1 The Movie.Thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
