Red Dog: True Blue drops to tenth place in Australian box after just one week
Australian family film Red Dog: True Blue has slipped into tenth place in Australia’s box office numbers, raking in $933,669 over the weekend.
The prequel to the 2011 film Red Dog, which is also directed by Kriv Stenders, tells the story of Red Dog, his origins and his owner before he became an Australian legend.
The first film, Red Dog, brought in $10.5m in its first month. The prequel has so far earned $5.173m after performing well during the holiday period, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia figures.
Meanwhile, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was knocked off the top slot by animated film Sing, which took a total of $3.370m in its second weekend.
Produced by Illumination entertainment, Sing tells the story of Buster Moon, a Koala who tries to restore his theatre by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.
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In its previous week, Sing had been unable to beat the Star Wars spin off – earning $4.448m in its debut weekend, just short of the Disney film’s $5.886m.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story now sits in third place, earning $3.089m at weekend box office. The film had made a total of $43.873m since it opened including an opening of $14.757m.
In second place, Roadshow’s Passengers pulled in $3.196m over the weekend.
The American sci-fi film, features Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt awakening from hibernation alone on a spaceship.
Passengers has made a total of $7.970m since its debut on January 1.
Disney’s animated film Moana slipped into fourth place in its second weekend at box office, achieving $3.029m. Moana has collected a total of $15.282m in earnings.
Assassin’s Creed managed fifth place in its debut weekend at box office, making $2.356m.
Since January 1, the film had managed to make $6.164m.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sing (Universal) | $3,370,167 | 386 | $17,710,902 |
| Passengers (Roadshow) | $3,196,645 | 353 | $7,970,370 |
| Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Disney) | $3,089,374 | 403 | $43,873,227 |
| Moana (Disney) | $3,029,103 | 358 | $15,282,135 |
| Assassin's Creed (Fox) | $2,356,448 | 292 | $6,164,900 |
| Allied (Paramount) | $1,708,924 | 238 | $8,355,603 |
| La La Land (Eone) | $1,690,569 | 172 | $7,631,579 |
| Why Him? (Fox) | $1,590,139 | 261 | $7,824,200 |
| The Edge Of Seventeen (Roadshow) | $1,135,140 | 174 | $1,377,083 |
| Red Dog: True Blue (Roadshow) | $933,669 | 322 | $5,173,228 |
| Trolls (Fox) | $461,385 | 196 | $16,107,347 |
| United Kingdom, A (Transmission) | $293,028 | 78 | $1,396,971 |
| Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Wb) | $240,472 | 85 | $31,760,246 |
| Rosalie Blum (Palace) | $192,702 | 25 | $1,086,195 |
| Dangal (Mindblowing Films) | $179,282 | 27 | $2,451,345 |
| Arrival (Roadshow) | $105,063 | 24 | $7,841,611 |
| Hacksaw Ridge (Icon) | $86,322 | 114 | $8,416,865 |
| Paterson (Madman) | $85,256 | 14 | $322,794 |
| The Accountant (Wb) | $63,411 | 10 | $6,057,582 |
| Master (Jbg Pictures) | $56,688 | 15 | $110,522 |
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Red Dog: Something out of the ark. And there’s 2 of them.
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ummmm. #10 is usually still considered to be in the “top 10″…
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Clearly ‘duh’, you are better at counting than we are.
Thanks for flagging. This has been corrected. Red Dog did indeed slip to 10th, not 11th as indicated in the initial article.
Vivienne – Mumbrella