Dr Seuss’s The Lorax and Wrath of the Titans fail to topple Hunger Games at box office
Sam Worthington in Wrath of the Titans
The Hunger Games has added nearly another $5m to its box office takings in its second weekend in release.
The action film took $4,838,000 across 471 screens for a screen average of $10,272, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
Also holding firm for the second week in a row is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which took another $2,626,000 across 269 screens for an average of $9,764.
The two films kept out two new releases Wrath of the Titans, which stars Australian Sam Worthington, and The Lorax from the top spots.
Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, directed by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda and featuring the voice of Danny DeVito took third spot with $2,115,000 across a massive 507 screens for an average of $4172.
In fourth place, Wrath of the Titans and directed by Jonathan Liebesman took $1,977,000 across 337 screens for an average of $5,866.
A re-telling of Snow White, Mirror Mirror, directed by Tarsem Singh was also released this week taking $879,000 across 233 screens for $3,775 while A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung took $241,000 across 49 screens for an average of $4918 in its first weekend.
Also released this week in limited release was the screening of Broadway musical Stephen Sondheim’s Company with the New York Philharmonic which took $87,310 across 37 screens for an average of $2360.
French/Finnish film Le Havre, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, which screened at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival had its cinematic release across 16 screens for an average of $3478 for a total of $55,653.
Finally, Fetih 1453, directed by Faruk Aksoy, is the story of Ottoman Turks on Constantinople in 1453 opened across just 2 screens but took a very respectable $16,849 per screen for a total of $33698.
