It its first weekend at the Australian box office, David Sandberg’s thriller, Annabelle: Creation, climbed to the top of the ladder, earning $2.287m across 231 screens.
The Warner Bros prequel to the 2014 film Annabelle, and fourth instalment of The Conjuring series, tells the story of a former toy maker and his wife, who welcome a nun and six orphaned girls to their farmhouse, before they are all terrorised by Annabelle, a possessed doll.
Annabelle: Creation managed to defeat Dunkirk, which earned $1.728m across 337 screens over the weekend.
According to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia report, the film has earned just short of $19m since its debut in late July.
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In third place was Valerian and the City of a Thousands Planets – a sci-fi film which features two special operatives who must work together to maintain order through human territories.
Premiering on August 10, the film made $1.259m on its first weekend at box office.
Fox’s War For The Planet Of The Apes fell from second to fourth place over the weekend, managing $1.055m. It has made $8.867m since its launch.
Fifth was Universal’s thriller Atomic Blonde, which made $900,996 in its first weekend at box office.
| Title (Distributor) |
Weekend B/O |
Screens |
Total B/O |
| Annabelle: Creation (Wb) |
$2,287,641 |
231 |
$2,287,641 |
| Dunkirk (Wb) |
$1,728,521 |
337 |
$18,999,067 |
| Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets (Eone) |
$1,259,153 |
433 |
$1,307,348 |
| War For The Planet Of The Apes (Fox) |
$1,055,979 |
315 |
$8,867,635 |
| Atomic Blonde (Universal) |
$900,996 |
323 |
$3,683,612 |
| The Big Sick (Roadshow) |
$822,571 |
275 |
$2,767,174 |
| Baby Driver (Sony) |
$526,717 |
219 |
$12,591,648 |
| Wolf Warrior 2 (Cmc Pictures) |
$383,902 |
21 |
$1,302,071 |
| Spider-man: Homecoming (Sony) |
$297,646 |
173 |
$25,211,507 |
| Wind River (Icon) |
$218,590 |
67 |
$309,343 |
| Despicable Me 3 (Universal) |
$156,494 |
158 |
$32,425,200 |
| The Trip To Spain (Madman) |
$120,376 |
75 |
$504,176 |
| Paris Can Wait (Transmission) |
$95,099 |
114 |
$1,435,307 |
| Cars 3 (Disney) |
$82,817 |
107 |
$13,190,468 |
| The Little Mermaid [r/i] (Disney) |
$73,833 |
132 |
$2,181,969 |
| An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power (Paramount) |
$73,740 |
70 |
$157,697 |
| The Battleship Island (Jbg Pictures) |
$70,654 |
15 |
$70,654 |
| The Time Of Their Lives (Rialto) |
$65,856 |
106 |
$67,136 |
| Finally Found Someone (Abs-cbn Distributors) |
$61,641 |
11 |
$61,641 |
| Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (Fox) |
$39,318 |
56 |
$5,922,433 |