Annabelle: Creation beats off The Dark Tower to retain weekend box office top spot
Annabelle: Creation kept the top spot on this weekend’s box office takings, grossing $1.526m, a fall from last week’s $2.287m, but still enough to keep out Stephen King’s fantasy sci-fi thriller The Dark Tower in its debut week.
The Dark Tower grossed $1.340m while Dunkirk began to slide down the charts with $1.109m, down from $1.729m the previous week.
Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey star in The Dark Tower
Since its debut in late July, Dunkirk has topped $20m in takings, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
Logan Lucky, Steven Soderbergh’s heist comedy, came in at number four in its debut week with $914,343 in takings, while fellow debutant, late life love story Hampstead, was in fifth position with $738,802.
War for the Planet of the Apes fell fell out of the top five to seventh spot with $541,019 in ticket sales, beaten to sixth by Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets which earned $548,219.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annabelle: Creation (Wb) | $1,526,017 | 212 | $4,588,668 |
| The Dark Tower (Sony) | $1,339,612 | 274 | $1,402,006 |
| Dunkirk (Wb) | $1,109,225 | 300 | $20,695,623 |
| Logan Lucky (Roadshow) | $914,343 | 303 | $945,065 |
| Hampstead (Eone) | $738,802 | 236 | $781,190 |
| Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (Eone) | $548,219 | 303 | $2,272,032 |
| War For The Planet Of The Apes (Fox) | $541,019 | 238 | $9,716,088 |
| The Big Sick (Roadshow) | $466,662 | 272 | $3,528,431 |
| Atomic Blonde (Universal) | $420,208 | 266 | $4,420,614 |
| Baby Driver (Sony) | $274,528 | 164 | $12,980,950 |
| Spider-man: Homecoming (Sony) | $145,234 | 109 | $25,444,845 |
| Wolf Warrior 2 (Cmc Pictures) | $143,508 | 21 | $1,554,961 |
| Despicable Me 3 (Universal) | $142,766 | 137 | $32,610,554 |
| Wind River (Icon) | $132,125 | 70 | $541,525 |
| Madame (Studiocanal) | $101,383 | 28 | $159,136 |
| Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Mindblowing Films) | $80,028 | 16 | $252,147 |
| Cars 3 (Disney) | $65,418 | 86 | $13,291,425 |
| The Trip To Spain (Madman) | $58,836 | 57 | $614,446 |
| Paris Can Wait (Transmission) | $47,883 | 106 | $1,528,303 |
| Gintama (Cinema Asia) | $44,132 | 24 | $44,132 |
