The top two titles from King’s Birthday weekend held their positions over the weekend.
At #1, the live-action Lilo and Stitch added $540,772 to extend its gross take to $3,663,272.
In second place, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning took $358,873 to total $3,739,585.
At #3, Tarun Mansukhani’s Housefull 5 (above), an Indian comedy thriller, took $287,145. The film has been released in two versions, each with a different climax sequence, titled Housefull 5A and Housefull 5B. Both are playing in NZ, each with a 162 minute runtime.
The Philippou Brothers’ Bring Her Back took $43,976 over the weekend, bringing its total to $169,381 after two weekends. Across the ditch on home turf, it’ll probably pass AU$2 million by this time next week, but looks likely to fall well short of the AU$4.5 million that Talk To Me took.
Tinā added $22,696 and has now grossed $6,366,587 here. In Aussie, it passed AU$3 million this week, ending the weekend with AU$3,091,462.
A Minecraft Movie added $16,765 to end the weekend about $7,000 shy of the $10 million mark.
Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds added $4,841 and has now earned $211,444.
Indie dramas The People We Love and Forgive Us All didn’t play on the weekend but are still in provincial cinemas.
Aussie horror The Surfer, starring Nicholas Cage, has a modest $8,787, but played on only 7 screens over the weekend.
This week’s new arrivals include the live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon, the shark-infested waters of another Aussie horror, Dangerous Animals, and Materialists from Celine Song, whose Past Lives lit up the 2023 festival circuit.
Thanks, as always, go to Numero for providing the data that powers our box office reporting.
