Stars Wars: The Last Jedi has become one of the highest-performing films in Australian box office history, cracking more than $20m in its first weekend.
Running across 970 screens, it became the second-highest opening weekend for a film in Australian history, just behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In 2015, Stars Wars: The Force Awakens took $27m on its first weekend.
The eighth instalment of the Star Wars saga knocked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 out of second place, which had opening weekend earnings of $18.364m.
In second place this weekend was Fox’s Ferdinand – the children’s film about a young bull who tries to escape a training camp in rural Spain.
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According to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia report, the film made $1.682m on its first weekend.
Falling from first place last week to third was Roadshow’s Wonder, which collected an additional $1.125m over the weekend.
On its first weekend, Wonder made $2.407m.
In fourth place was Daddy’s Home 2, which made $915,793, a massive drop from last weekend’s earnings of $2.002m.
Justice League fell from second place to fifth over the weekend, adding $402,278 to its total earnings.
|
| Title (Distributor) |
Weekend B/O |
Screens |
Total B/O |
|---|
| Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Disney) |
$20,977,461 |
970 |
$20,977,461 |
| Ferdinand (Fox) |
$1,682,755 |
290 |
$2,512,451 |
| Wonder (Roadshow) |
$1,125,570 |
290 |
$8,235,469 |
| Daddy's Home 2 (Paramount) |
$915,793 |
285 |
$10,621,813 |
| Justice League (Wb) |
$402,278 |
261 |
$19,165,522 |
| Murder On The Orient Express (Fox) |
$322,509 |
229 |
$14,986,491 |
| The Disaster Artist (Wb) |
$293,442 |
196 |
$1,569,865 |
| Thor: Ragnarok (Disney) |
$247,361 |
160 |
$34,596,532 |
| The Star (Sony) |
$95,224 |
57 |
$817,273 |
| Goodbye Christoper Robin (Fox) |
$60,540 |
104 |
$1,471,041 |
| Bad Moms 2 (Roadshow) |
$48,271 |
50 |
$10,092,739 |
| Wonder Wheel (Eone) |
$39,418 |
64 |
$177,310 |
| The Secret Scripture (Transmission) |
$32,533 |
32 |
$119,036 |
| The Teacher (Palace) |
$31,852 |
22 |
$441,172 |
| Unexpectedly Yours (Abs-cbn Distributors) |
$29,510 |
11 |
$29,510 |
| Loving Vincent (Madman) |
$28,974 |
33 |
$999,754 |
| The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (Madman) |
$28,827 |
25 |
$566,552 |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas (Icon) |
$23,788 |
69 |
$496,933 |
| Fukrey Returns (Zee Studios) |
$20,313 |
16 |
$98,127 |
| The Snowman (Universal) |
$15,939 |
5 |
$1,591,195 |