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.
