Two new arrivals, both of them family-friendly fare, took the top two spots over the first weekend of the school holidays. Opening in the top spot, The Wild Robot played 119 screens, taking $268,826 for a gross of $409,118 including previews.
At #2, Transformers One played 104 screens, which took $184,024. With previews, its gross was $462,036.
Last weekend’s #1, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped to #3. On 106 screens, it added $179,682 for a total take of $1,935,465.
Encanto Reo Maori placed highest of the local fare on release, placing at #6. On 21 screens, it took $20,985 to gross $199,054.
On 57 screens, We Were Dangerous took $10,111 for a total of $544,407.
Bookworm played 36 screens, adding $2,945 for $453,099.
Islands-shot Stranded Pearl continued on 9 screens, taking $784 for a gross of $18,984.
Lee Tamahori’s The Convert played a single screen, adding $188 for a total take of $641,469.
Also on a single screen, Haydn Butler’s 2023 indie title, Home Kills, returned to take $321.
John Sheedy’s Aussie family-friendly title Runt, which broke some records on home territory on its first weekend of release, will be the highest-profile arrival on screens here this week.
As always, huge thanks to Numero for the data that powers our box office reports.
Comments
THE CONVERT is a great film that should have been made, but it cost over NZ$16M. Given the subject matter, it’s primary market is presumably New Zealand. The New Zealand market contributed NZ$641,469 to the film’s theatrical box office against a budget of approx. NZ$16M…….
BOOKWORM presumably cost over NZ$5M, going off the QNZPE number. Again, I assume the New Zealand market is the primary metric used by the NZFC when funding features, but it clearly has no capacity to support the budgets of these films.
It’s entirely possible, (and quite likely) that the international sales revenue is more impressive than these domestic box office figures, so why is a kiwi theatrical audience prioritised above international? It really is baffling.