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Martian sci-fi film John Carter opens strongly at the box office

Walt Disney’s adventure story John Carter opened strongly over the weekend, according to the Motion Pictures Distributors Association of Australia.

The film took $3,093,000 in its first week, across 246 screens for an average of $12,571 per screen.

Directed by Andrew Stanton, who directed animated films Wall-E, Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, the film stars Taylor Kitsch and Willem Dafoe and is set on Mars.

In the US, the film opened on Friday and took an estimated $30,603,000.

Norwegian thriller Headhunters, an adaptation of the Jo Nesbo book, directed by Morten Tyldum,  topped the limited release ladder taking $190,000 across 39 screens for an average of $4,877 and 11th on the overall tally for the week.

Indian thriller Kahanni opened across just 12 screens taking 55,000 for an average of $4,613 while Coriolanus, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy directed and starring Ralph Fiennes and starring Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox.

French film The Source, directed by Radu Mihaileanu and set in a North African village, took just $1,785 across two screens for $893 screen average.

US Party film Project X took another $1,098,000, dropping slightly from its $1,280,000 debut last week. Across its 191 screens it averaged $5,751, just down on last week’s $5,764 average across 222 screens.

Behind John Carter and Project X, Contraband rounded out the top three taking $727,000 in its third week across 215 screens for a $3,380 screen average.

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