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Geostorm knocks Blade Runner 2049 off top spot at weekend box office

American disaster film Geostorm topped the weekend box office with earnings of $1.539m despite abysmal reviews and performance over in the US.

Co-written, produced and directed by Dean Devlin, the film follows the story of a satellite designer who tries to save the world from a massive storm triggered by malfunctioning climate-controlled satellites.

It stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish and Alexandra Maria Lara.

In second place was Sony’s Blade Runner 2049, which fell out of the top spot for the first time since its debut.

According to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia, the film grossed $4.528m in its first week.

This week it made $1.412m across 356 screens. Its weekend success brought total earnings to $10.579m.

In third place was The Mountain Between Us, which made 941,040 over the weekend.

Fourth was British crime thriller film The Snowman –  the story of a detective whose investigating a young woman’s death leads him to ‘The Snowman Killer.’

It made $848,723 in its first weekend at box office.

Happy Death Day slipped from fourth to fifth at this weekend’s box office, grossing $797,840 across 227 screens.

Title (Distributor) Weekend B/O Screens Total B/O
Geostorm (Wb) $1,539,180 324 $1,539,180
Blade Runner 2049 (Sony) $1,412,656 356 $10,579,641
The Mountain Between Us (Fox) $941,040 292 $3,391,498
The Snowman (Universal) $848,723 291 $848,723
Happy Death Day (Universal) $797,840 227 $2,597,102
Home Again (Eone) $712,639 265 $763,402
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Fox) $586,964 249 $18,475,945
Mersal (Mks Retail) $273,565 25 $406,622
The Son Of Bigfoot (Studiocanal) $230,250 221 $231,864
Victoria And Abdul (Universal) $224,616 205 $7,976,296
The Foreigner (english) (Roadshow) $192,769 47 $198,326
The Emoji Movie (Sony) $158,200 184 $13,447,845
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Fox) $145,850 187 $9,424,389
Secret Superstar (Zee Studios) $127,095 29 $127,095
It (Wb) $122,524 120 $23,543,414
Battle Of The Sexes (Fox) $97,970 129 $2,442,511
The Lego Ninjago Movie (Wb) $91,563 117 $5,311,628
Never Say Die (Cmc Pictures) $70,487 15 $573,805
Final Portrait (Transmission) $68,011 52 $473,666
The Foreigner (chinese) (Roadshow) $61,590 14 $243,651
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