Despicable Me tops weekend box office as Lone Ranger falls flat

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.

Despicable Me 2 has now taken $22.357m since it opened. Man Of Steel has taken $16.833m. The best performing film still on general release is The great Gatsby, which has now moved up to $25.343m in local takings after six weeks on release. This weekend it took another $712,000 across 201 screens.

Meanwhile Wikileaks documentary We Steal Secrets took $67,000 across 23 screens in its opening weekend.

Source: Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia

Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the founder of Mumbrella. At various points he's been editor, content director and editor-at-large of Mumbrella. He's written about media and marketing in Australia, the Middle East and the UK.

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Comments: 3

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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