Gravity continues its box office reign while About Time enters the fray
Warner Bros space film Gravity has topped the Australian box office for the third weekend running, taking $2,407,063 across 492 screens. The film has now made more than $12m locally.
In second position this weekend was romantic comedy About Time from the writer of Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral Richard Curtis. It made its debut at the Australian box office this weekend and took $1,687,625 on 284 screens. Also debuting this weekend, and coming in third place, was the Warner Bros feature Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenghaal. The action pic made $1,097,492 on 206 screens.
Two Australian films were in the box office top 20 across the weekend, Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road and Tim Winton’s The Turning. The Turning saw a major increase in the number of screens to 36 and made $80,959. It has now almost cracked the million dollar mark. Mystery Road made $59,853 across 17 screens.
THE BOX OFFICE TOP 20
Saw Prisoners on the weekend and it’s a great film. Harrowing, disturbing and quite unrelentingly grim but mesmerising. Tense throughout the entire 153 mins. Do yourself a favour!