Annabelle: Creation takes top spot from Dunkirk at weekend box office
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.
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 |
topics
Annabelle: Creation
Atomic Blonde
box office
Dunkirk
Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets
War for the planet of the Apes
