Star Wars: The Last Jedi delivers Australia’s second-biggest opening weekend of all time

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.

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.

Zoe Samios

Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019. She completed her degree at the University of Sydney in Media and Communications. She's previously travelled overseas for internships, including to South Korea, where she worked as a reporter for The Korea Herald.

topics box officeMotion Picture Distributors Association of AustraliaStars Wars: The Last Jedi

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