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School holidays helps Paddington claim top place in the box office

School holiday friendly film Paddington has knocked Horrible Bosses 2 from the top of the box office rankings after pulling in $1.364m, taking its total Australian box office takings to $3.968m.

Horrible Bosses 2 was relegated to third places as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 held onto second place after grabbing $1.240m at the box office over the weekend. To date the film has made over $30m at the Australian box office.

A new comer to the box office was the remake of the musical Annie which took in $1.152m in its opening weekend.

Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods & Kings came in at sixth place after just missing out on taking a million over the weekend, with kids movie Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day beating it at fifth place after taking in $1.012m.

Interstellar continues to make the top ten after pulling in $474,922 over the weekend. Gone Girl slipped from the top ten into eleventh place after grabbing $62, 142, taking its total box office takings to $26.738m.

Title (Distributor) Weekend B/O Screens Total B/O
Paddington (Studiocanal) $1,364,853 0 $3,968,171
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (Roadshow) $1,240,152 0 $30,791,300
Horrible Bosses 2 (Wb) $1,197,631 0 $4,635,320
Annie (Roadshow) $1,152,372 0 $1,152,372
Alexander And The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day (Disney) $1,012,292 0 $5,254,607
Exodus : Gods & Kings (Fox) $947,349 0 $7,023,174
Interstellar (Wb) $474,922 0 $19,394,233
Nightcrawler (Madman) $163,551 0 $2,018,503
My Old Lady (Eone) $65,276 0 $2,454,824
Folies Bergere (Palace) $65,064 0 $400,307
Gone Girl (Fox) $62,142 0 $26,738,545
20,000 Days On Earth (Madman) $55,500 0 $409,747
Cong Cong Na Nian (Chinalion Film) $47,929 0 $195,445
Pride (Eone) $33,881 0 $2,901,199
Let's Be Cops (Fox) $29,320 0 $4,331,879
Lingaa (Ayngaran Video) $13,370 0 $151,988
Winter Sleep (Sharmill) $11,968 0 $209,923
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (Sharmill) $10,244 0 $107,976
Whiplash (Sony) $9,816 0 $667,764
Love, Rosie (Studiocanal) $9,330 0 $1,766,490
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