Kick-Ass 2 couldn’t knock out Elysium in weekend box office

The Sony Pictures distributed Elysium has topped the Aussie box office for the second weekend, taking home $2,156,040 on 294 screens.

Now You See Me, distributed by Eone/Hopscotch Films, made $1,981,939 on 270 screens in its third week this weekend, while the new release of comic book action sequel Kick-Ass 2 drew $1,074,616 across 217 screens on its opening weekend.

The Universal Pictures distributed sequel to 2010’s Kick-Ass movie, based on the Mark Millar comic book series, features 17-year-old high school student Dave Lizeweski aka Kick-Ass, played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and a team of self-made masked crusaders, led by Colonol Stars and Stripes, played by Jim Carrey. The heroes are hunted down by  villainous teen Chris D’Amico, played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse, whose goal it is to track down Kick-Ass who murdered his father in the previous film. D’Amico, who calls himself The Motherf***er, recruits trained killers, such as Mother Russia, played by Olga Kurkulina, to do his dirty work.

Carrey previously publicly distanced himself from the level of violence in the film via his Twitter account.