Pan grabs $2m on opening weekend but Everest still towers over the box office
Warner Brothers’ new Peter Pan movie starring Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried took more than $2m at the box office over the weekend on 472 screens.
However it was not enough to put Pan on top of the Australian box office, with Everest holding that position claiming $2.21m, having now earned more than $7m in just a fortnight.
Amid the school holidays Columbia Pictures’s sci-fi action comedy Pixels, starring Adam Sandler, also recorded its best result so far taking $2.1m, taking its gross over $8.2m.
Australian movie Oddball, starring Shane Jacobson, is also doing well taking $1.7m over the weekend from 293 cinema screens and now has takings of $4.5m.
Drug thriller Sicario took $1.6m on its second weekend while Maze Runner is now up to $10.4m in box office takings, but Straight Outta Compton is the highest grossing film in the top 20 with earnings of $11.3m after taking more than $600,000 on the weekend.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Everest (Universal) | $2,211,231 | 451 | $7,015,162 |
| Pixels (Sony) | $2,105,887 | 412 | $8,239,301 |
| Pan (Wb) | $2,088,624 | 472 | $2,168,630 |
| Oddball (Roadshow) | $1,796,047 | 293 | $4,561,849 |
| Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (Fox) | $1,765,093 | 0 | $10,418,436 |
| Sicario (Roadshow) | $1,684,072 | 0 | $2,091,171 |
| The Visit (Universal) | $1,153,733 | 180 | $1,154,304 |
| Straight Outta Compton (Universal) | $616,330 | 219 | $11,353,083 |
| Blinky Bill The Movie (Studiocanal) | $548,426 | 290 | $1,373,633 |
| Lost In Hong Kong (Magnum) | $441,086 | 11 | $441,086 |
| Veteran (Dreamwest Pictures) | $117,169 | 13 | $117,169 |
| Walk In The Woods, A (Eone) | $114,736 | 74 | $1,740,903 |
| Last Cab To Darwin (Icon) | $86,186 | 54 | $7,056,639 |
| The Gift (Roadshow) | $74,046 | 46 | $2,468,894 |
| Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon (Friends India) | $72,906 | 25 | $72,906 |
| War Room (Crossroads) | $64,646 | 23 | $1,138,092 |
| Ricki And The Flash (Sony) | $48,496 | 48 | $3,015,299 |
| Holding The Man (Transmission) | $46,767 | 29 | $1,082,762 |
| Inside Out (Disney) | $45,705 | 51 | $31,043,550 |
| London Road (Sharmill) | $36,710 | 21 | $36,837 |
