Doctor Strange posts bumper opening weekend
Disney’s latest fantasy flick Doctor Strange went straight in at the top of the Australian box office over the weekend with takings of $6.424m.
The film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a noted surgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident before being inducted into a secret magical sect, was shown on 643 screens and knocked last week’s top film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back into third place.
Tom Cruise’s flick managed just $1.212m across 332 screens, proving less appealing than Girl on a Train, which had takings of $1.261m over the weekend; its total takings now north of $13m.
