New Australian film Breath pulls more than $1m on opening weekend, can’t beat Avengers: Infinity War

Australian film Breath finished its first weekend at the box office with more than $1m in earnings across 244 screens, coming in behind The Avengers: Infinity War and I Feel Pretty.

The film, an adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel Breath, finished at the weekend box office with $1.001m in earnings, just behind Amy Schumer’s film I Feel Pretty, which collected an additional $1.024m in its third weekend.

Breath stars Simon Baker, Samson Coulter and Ben Spence, and tells the story of young boys who find a passion for surfing and find themselves under the ‘spell’ of a big-wave surfer.