New arrival Shelter topped the weekend chart, ending Sunday with $174,465 in earnings from 81 screens, for $192,078 including previews.
At #2, Marty Supreme continued on 84 screens, taking $136,963 over the weekend to push its total to $1,109,727.
Avatar: Fire and Ash held at #3, playing 82 screens. In what might be its last weekend in the podium spots, it added $130,670 for a gross of $11,247,002.
Aussie title We Bury the Dead opened on 40 screens, for a modest $8,209.
Anchor Me: The Don McGlashan Story was still the best NZ performer at #29, adding $6,874 from 22 screens, for a gross to date of $138,230.
One place lower, Not Only Fred Dagg played on 21 screens, earning $6,059 and growing its gross to $448,954.
Pike River played 4 screens and added $324 for a total of $1,442,275.
Arrivals this week include two titles set and shot in Yorkshire, England, and neither of them especially Valentiney: the 21st film or TV adaptation (not counting the MV’s for Kate Bush’s long-enduring single) of Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, and Taratoa Stappard’s Mārama.
Our thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
Comments
Is Mārama going to pass NZ$500,000? The NZSPR on the film is NZ$1,954,668, and one of the core outcomes for the domestic NZSPR is that audience reach is commensurate with the size of the rebate… The math isn’t working.
Instead of consistently ignoring the rebate criteria by funding films that cannot live up to the outcomes needed, why isn’t anyone just changing the criteria? We are really lucky to have this rebate, but people are taking the piss. It places the rebate in a very precarious position when needing to defend it’s existence – especially in an election year.