American Sniper picks off top spot at the box office over the long weekend
Clint Eastwood’s latest film American Sniper stormed the box office over the Australia Day long weekend to take $5.266m across 298 screens.
Since its premiere last Thursday the film, which stars Bradley Cooper as Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and is nominated for best picture at the Oscars, has made $5.627m locally.
Australian film Paper Planes continues to do well at the box office although it could not come close to American Sniper’s bumper effort grabbing $1.675m across 262 screens taking its total local box office takings to $5.157m.
Taken3 was pushed into third placed after pulling in $1.225m across 289 screens. The action movie has made nearly $13m at the Australian box office.
The Imitation Game scored fourth place on the box office rankings after taking in $1.243m while Disney’s Into the Woods rounded out the top five after raking in $1.185m.
Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken was the last film to crack the $1m mark, grabbing $1.107m across 276 screens. To date the film, which was filmed in Australia, has made $4.333m.
Kids movies Penguins of Madagascar and Big Hero 6 benefited from the final weekend of the school holidays pulling in $977,123 and $975,529 respectively.
Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
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American Sniper (Roadshow) | $5,266,519 | 298 | $5,627,440 |
Paper Planes (Roadshow) | $1,675,914 | 262 | $5,157,015 |
Taken 3 (Fox) | $1,255,555 | 289 | $12,706,368 |
The Imitation Game (Roadshow) | $1,243,895 | 231 | $13,897,614 |
Into The Woods (Disney) | $1,185,530 | 301 | $10,044,808 |
Unbroken (Universal) | $1,107,620 | 276 | $4,333,088 |
Penguins Of Madagascar (Fox) | $977,123 | 341 | $14,014,551 |
Big Hero 6 (Disney) | $975,529 | 245 | $20,136,180 |
The Wedding Ringer (Sony) | $946,858 | 171 | $1,195,424 |
Wild (Fox) | $841,460 | 0 | $979,845 |
Birdman (Fox) | $828,185 | 160 | $3,432,732 |
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (Wb) | $785,929 | 245 | $33,433,595 |
The Water Diviner (Universal) | $581,227 | 250 | $14,133,907 |
Dumb And Dumber To (Universal) | $454,298 | 197 | $5,899,258 |
Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (Fox) | $337,762 | 138 | $13,336,265 |
Paddington (Studiocanal) | $305,239 | 141 | $10,750,295 |
Baby (Sippy) | $104,238 | 7 | $104,238 |
Still Alice (Icon) | $101,882 | 64 | $111,222 |
Annie (Roadshow) | $101,775 | 73 | $5,950,694 |
Mr. Turner (Transmission) | $69,554 | 36 | $1,598,461 |
Nice headline. I see what you did there. Should have said Paper Planes continued to soar, and Taken3 snatched third place.
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Pretty sure if that headline had appeared in another publication it’d feature in Dr Mumbo. Pretty crass, Mumbrella.
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Get your (left) hand off it ‘Sub-Editor’……Excellent use of a low key pun!
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There is a great story unfolding here & its all about two Aussie films that are both doing spectacularly well right now. Combined they have grossed over $20m so far this year. You gave scant mention to one of them Paper Planes & ignored the other one completely. But great use of an obvious pun in your headline.
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