Despicable Me tops weekend box office as Lone Ranger falls flat

Tim Burrowes

July 8, 2013 7:25

Universal’s animated movie Despicable Me 2 was Australia top grossing box office film over the weekend, taking $4.706m across 477 screens.

Unusually, the film grew its revenue although it was in its third week of release.

It overtook last weekend’s top film Man Of Steel, which took $4.085m across 553 screens.

The only major new movie was Walt Disney’s The Lone Ranger, which was third for the week with disappointing box office revenue of $3.556m across 353 screens.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

JB 9 Jul 13

Just saw Despicable Me with my five year old son – wonderful, rollicking, ribald fun (and I’m 40.) How good is animation in films these days? Incredible…

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Black Tooth Grin 10 Jul 13

I wouldn’t call the revenue growth unusual, it is school holidays after all

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AJ 10 Jul 13

Remember when terrible films rolled in the money while great films underperformed?

Pleasing to see that well made (er well reviewed) movies at the moment are generally outperforming their competition (Great Gatsby is an exception).

Let’s pray for no more money generating Transformers trash.

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