On 111 screens, The Bad Guys 2 saw out the school holidays in the #1 slot, ended Sunday with a weekend take of $494,984, up around $50K on its performance on the previous weekend. It now has a gross take of $2,311,481.
At #2, on a modest 82 screens – modest for a global superstar, at least – Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl collected $417,588.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another fell back a place to #3, but had a higher per screen take than on its opening weekend. It took $257,433 from 96 screens, for a total of $666,865.
Outside of the top three, doco Prime Minister played 77 screens, adding $168,869 for $489,964 and has almost certainly passed half a million by the time you’re reading this.
Kangaroo took $140,274, closing out the school holidays with a total take of $537,379.
The re-release of Avatar: The Way of Water on 47 screens, described by James Cameron (with tongue firmly in cheek) as a money-grab ahead of the release of Avatar 3 in a couple of months, added $112,035 to its original global of take of over US$2.3 billion.
Life in One Chord took $694 from 5 screens, for a total of $87,875.
Two local docos popped up again over the weekend. Grace: A Prayer for Peace played on 8 screens, taking $2,123 to total $31,239; and Yellow is Forbidden played a single screen, adding $53 for $46,769.
Tinā, now available on Netflix, took $10 from a single screen outing over the weekend, and has now earned $6,485,467.
This week’s new arrivals include TRON: Ares, this time flipping the script from the 1982 original to have AI come into the human world; and ANZ co-pro Went Up The Hill, which becomes the latest NZIFF-premiered title to go on wider release.
Our thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
