Godzilla destroys box office top ten on opening weekend
The latest remake of Godzilla has grabbed $6.767m over the weekend, more than the rest of the top ten films combined, as it took more than $200m across the world on its opening weekend.
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros are said to be lining up a sequel to the monster film which grabbed the biggest opening in Australia this year across 498 screens and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston.
Second in the rankings was number one for the last two weeks Bad Neighbours which took $3.125m across 397 screens, ahead of The Other Woman which just broke the million-dollar mark taking its total to $18.4m.
Further down the rankings Chef from StudioCanal which took just over $600,000 and the Grand Budapest Hotel which got $549,000 across 256 screens, ahead of The Amazing Spiderman: The Rise of Electro which got $474,000 taking its total to $15.5m.
The box office:
Title (Distributor)
Weekend B/O
Screens
Total B/O
Godzilla (Wb)
$6,767,119
498
$6,767,119
Bad Neighbours (Universal)
$3,125,511
397
$11,948,419
The Other Woman (Fox)
$1,000,294
0
$18,431,919
Chef (Studiocanal)
$608,035
267
$1,750,241
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox)
$549,332
256
$10,557,868
The Amazing Spider-man 2: Rise Of Electro (Sony)
$474,526
240
$15,503,894
Belle (Icon)
$289,257
100
$793,532
The Lego Movie (Roadshow)
$268,601
241
$29,330,454
Divergent (Eone)
$182,423
108
$10,491,550
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Disney)
$136,773
84
$19,832,996
Fading Gigolo (Paramount)
$96,208
59
$744,967
Transcendence (Roadshow)
$85,073
96
$2,926,119
Mr. Peabody And Sherman (Fox)
$76,941
130
$12,990,765
Healing (Pinnacle Films)
$72,825
45
$204,869
Waar (Friends India)
$51,963
9
$56,777
Muppets Most Wanted (Disney)
$46,254
72
$4,316,572
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Eone)
$34,792
16
$38,987
Heaven Is For Real (Sony)
$32,435
27
$84,470
The Invisible Woman (Eone)
$31,109
44
$746,328
Child's Pose (Palace)
$24,159
10
$98,698
Alex Hayes