Solo: A Star Wars Story makes $6.612m on debut weekend
The latest spin-off in the Star Wars franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story, entered the weekend box office with $6.612m, making it the highest grossing film of the weekend.
Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson and Emilia Clarke, the film is centred around Hans Solo and his early adventures.
Compared to other spin-offs and Star Wars films in the franchise, Solo did not perform as well at the Australian box office or the US box office.
Solo: A Star Wars Story was also well behind the performance of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which earned $27m on its opening weekend and is currently the second-highest grossing film in Australian box office history.
But the film did manage to knock Deadpool 2 out of the top spot after just one week. Over the weekend, Deadpool 2 made a further $5.914m.
The other Marvel film in movie theatres, Avengers: Infinity War, added another $1.202m to its total earnings, helping the film to a new box office record. Avengers: Infinity War is now the third-highest box office film of all time in Australia, with $58.961m.
Stars Wars: The Force Awakens and Avatar are the only two films above Avengers: Infinity War, with earnings of $94.034m and $115.632m respectively.
Coming in behind Avengers: Infinity War was Life Of The Party, with $592,644 in total earnings, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.
The only other film to make more than $500,000 over the weekend was new film The Bookshop, which stars Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson. It is set in 1959 in a small town in England, where a woman decides to open a bookshop.
On its first weekend, it made $506,396.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo: A Star Wars Story (Disney) | $6,612,874 | 780 | $6,612,874 |
| Deadpool 2 (Fox) | $5,914,414 | 556 | $24,468,503 |
| Avengers: Infinity War (Disney) | $1,202,173 | 285 | $58,961,633 |
| Life Of The Party (Wb) | $592,644 | 252 | $4,289,834 |
| The Bookshop (Transmission) | $506,396 | 123 | $537,498 |
| Breath (Roadshow) | $284,608 | 199 | $3,511,562 |
| The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (Studiocanal) | $247,550 | 194 | $5,953,514 |
| Duck Duck Goose (Roadshow) | $218,779 | 164 | $221,201 |
| How Long Will I Love You (Tangren) | $192,150 | 19 | $453,459 |
| I Feel Pretty (Eone) | $140,909 | 123 | $9,115,826 |
| Tully (Studiocanal) | $102,255 | 136 | $957,113 |
| Quiet Place, A (Paramount) | $88,072 | 76 | $12,332,425 |
| Aurore (Palace) | $75,336 | 24 | $467,481 |
| Peter Rabbit (Sony) | $69,128 | 102 | $26,421,879 |
| Warren Miller's Line Of Descent (Ice Edge) | $59,330 | 5 | $125,558 |
| Sherlock Gnomes (Paramount) | $58,720 | 120 | $6,610,237 |
| Chappaquiddick (Transmission) | $57,245 | 66 | $416,108 |
| Raazi (Zee Studios) | $45,728 | 14 | $359,441 |
| Gurrumul (Madman) | $40,111 | 38 | $637,262 |
| Crooked House (Roadshow) | $29,788 | 105 | $520,689 |
That chart is, ah, interesting ….
last week’s top 10 in duplicate
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This is the last week chart and it is wrong.
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Sorry Stanislav, we’ve fixed that error.
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Sorry Russ, fixed now.
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Thanks.
Great report by Zoe btw.
Solo box office here & everywhere else is unequivocally bad.
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Hans who? 😛
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