Jumanji: The Next Level soars to the top of the Australian box office, while Cats struggles on debut

The third instalment in the Jumanji franchise and the second in the new iteration starring Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan, Jumanji: The Next Level, has leapt straight to the top of the Australian box office in its first weekend of release. It follows the first new film doing the same thing in 2017 with $9.222m for its first weekend. 

Taking $13.267m across 647 screens, the film easily beat Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which secured another $8.329m across 1,056 screens, giving the film a running total of $30.9m for its two-week run.