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Hunger Games lights Aussie box office on fire

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The second instalment in the young adult series The Hunger Games has dominated the Australian box office on its opening weekend. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, distributed by Roadshow, made a whopping $12.4m on 580 screens.

According to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA), it was the second highest opening for a film at the local box office so far for 2013. While the Jennifer Lawrence headed pic made $2.7m on opening day, before going on to take $12.4 across the weekend, it didn’t quite reach Iron Man 3 which took home $3.4m on opening day before netting a total of $14m over opening weekend earlier this year. Catching Fire also opened in the US this weekend and while weekend figures are yet to be tallied due to the time difference, industry analysts are predicting it will make around $150m in its home market.

Also opening this weekend was Adoration. Distributed by Hopscotch/eOne and directed by Anne Fontaine, the film was shot in Australia last year. It made just $71,490 on 44 screens. Starring Naomi Watts and Robin Wright, the film tells the story of two women who pair off with each other’s much younger sons. 

 THE BOX OFFICE TOP 20

Title (Distributor) Weekend B/O Screens Total B/O
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Roadshow) $12,495,983 580 $12,495,983
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Paramount) $1,708,823 297 $6,196,218
Thor: The Dark World (Disney) $1,253,116 530 $20,224,291
Captain Phillips (Sony) $461,791 232 $8,412,055
The Butler (Eone /hopscotch) $417,316 205 $3,775,612
Enough Said (Fox) $347,957 84 $1,038,214
Gravity (Wb) $309,054 179 $19,786,934
The Counselor (Fox) $227,947 218 $2,861,445
Insidious: Chapter 2 (Sony) $154,327 88 $1,319,617
Ram Leela (Eros) $100,903 30 $466,828
Filth (Icon) $96,037 47 $107,298
Adoration (Eone /hopscotch) $71,490 44 $71,490
Planes (Disney) $54,943 80 $7,856,432
Turbo (Fox) $51,022 118 $12,925,190
Gori Tere Pyaar Mein (Mindblowing Films) $50,007 16 $50,007
20 Feet From Stardom (Paramount) $39,432 14 $46,741
National Theatre Live - Frankenstein V2 (Sharmill) $24,992 6 $113,534
Blue Jasmine (Eone /hopscotch) $24,617 19 $6,045,917
Bhaji In Problem (Indies) $24,192 9 $165,800
Prisoners (Wb) $23,680 34 $3,797,128

Data courtesy MPDAA.

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