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Cinemas experience quiet box office weekend ahead of release of new Star Wars film

The last seven days saw takings at the Australian box office down on previous weeks, with most studios holding their new releases back ahead of Thursday’s release of the latest Star Wars – The Force Awakens.

The Hunger Games, Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2 and Creed were the top four for a second in a row, all taking ticket sales of more than $1m.

Ron Howard’s Moby Dick epic In the Heart of Sea again did poorly selling $630,000 across 308 screens.

Meanwhile The Hunger Games has now sold more than $25m worth of tickets in four weeks, while James Bond film Spectre has sold $31.6m in a similar period.

According to reports more than $50m worth of pre-sale tickets for the new Star Wars film have already been bought in US.

Title (Distributor) Weekend B/O Screens Total B/O
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Roadshow) $2,008,729 415 $25,473,178
Spectre (Sony) $1,644,424 0 $31,603,268
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony) $1,393,494 362 $6,456,508
Creed (Wb) $1,095,413 225 $5,134,176
The Night Before (Sony) $671,014 0 $1,843,170
In The Heart Of The Sea (Roadshow) $630,362 308 $1,920,522
The Dressmaker (Universal) $569,760 257 $17,129,248
Love The Coopers (Eone) $279,248 168 $1,266,067
Bridge Of Spies (Fox) $120,774 81 $7,327,215
The Martian (Fox) $99,508 49 $27,251,486
Truth (Roadshow) $78,006 11 $168,266
Inside Men (Dreamwest Pictures) $76,817 13 $76,817
Secret In Their Eyes (Roadshow) $68,669 84 $1,509,735
Second Chance, A (Abs-cbn Distributors) $55,997 11 $55,997
Phoenix (Madman) $45,973 11 $204,601
The Lobster (Sony) $30,707 15 $569,045
Oddball (Roadshow) $24,515 41 $10,959,356
The Program (Studiocanal) $22,709 23 $174,623
National Theatre Live: Coriolanus (Sharmill) $22,362 15 $158,079
99 Homes (Madman) $21,800 14 $247,475
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