Martian sci-fi film John Carter opens strongly at the box office

Walt Disney’s adventure story John Carter opened strongly over the weekend, according to the Motion Pictures Distributors Association of Australia.

The film took $3,093,000 in its first week, across 246 screens for an average of $12,571 per screen.

Directed by Andrew Stanton, who directed animated films Wall-E, Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, the film stars Taylor Kitsch and Willem Dafoe and is set on Mars.

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