New Clint Eastwood film The Mule pulls $1.9m on opening weekend
Clint Eastwood’s newest film The Mule, made $1.9m on its opening weekend, new data from the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia report shows.
The crime drama is based on the life of a 90-year-old horticulturist who takes a job as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. It topped the weekend box office, after a run across 311 screens.
One weekend was all it took for The Mule to knock M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller, Glass, into second place over the weekends. The film, starring James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Anya Taylor-Joy, premiered with $3.3m, and made an additional $1.8m on the weekend across 344 screens.
Meanwhile, animated film How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, adding $1.6m to earnings, helping the film crack $20m at the Australian box office.
New film Green Book, based on the true story of a working-class Italian American bouncer, Tony Lip, who becomes a chauffeur for an African-American classical pianist, Dr Don Shirley, made $1.609m on its opening weekend. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali and Linda Cardellini, and ran across 260 screens.
Instant Family made an additional $1.5m over the weekend, bringing the film’s total to $9.5m.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mule (Wb) | $1,904,222 | 311 | $1,982,943 |
| Glass (Disney) | $1,823,935 | 344 | $6,501,137 |
| How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal) | $1,628,994 | 322 | $20,102,850 |
| Green Book (Eone) | $1,609,780 | 260 | $1,963,550 |
| Instant Family (Paramount) | $1,586,648 | 275 | $9,513,458 |
| Aquaman (Wb) | $1,342,230 | 314 | $39,297,865 |
| Dragon Ball Super: Broly (Madman) | $1,322,354 | 162 | $1,322,354 |
| Mary Poppins Returns (Disney) | $1,163,273 | 310 | $17,548,534 |
| Storm Boy (Sony) | $1,144,290 | 309 | $3,603,563 |
| Ralph Breaks The Internet (Disney) | $800,973 | 25 | $19,511,664 |
| Bohemian Rhapsody (Fox) | $774,656 | 232 | $50,232,626 |
| Mary Queen Of Scots (Universal) | $636,796 | 236 | $2,592,662 |
| The Kid Who Would Be King (Fox) | $430,258 | 231 | $1,505,646 |
| Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse (Sony) | $352,896 | 102 | $13,047,061 |
| Star Is Born, A (Wb) | $267,602 | 114 | $35,007,212 |
| Free Solo (Madman) | $259,003 | 69 | $539,137 |
| The Favourite (Fox) | $257,361 | 80 | $4,003,199 |
| Uri: The Surgical Strike (Mindblowing Films) | $142,894 | 21 | $682,690 |
| Vice (Eone) | $129,170 | 140 | $3,610,135 |
| Bumblebee (Paramount) | $114,623 | 58 | $11,259,204 |
