Star Wars maintains box office top spot leaving new Will Ferrell comedy distant second
Three weeks after its release Star Wars: The Force Awakens has taken almost $70m at the box office, recording total sales of $69.949m as of last weekend.
Star Wars remains well ahead of any other film currently screening in cinemas, taking $9m this week from the 741 screens showing the film nationally.
The franchise remains on track to challenge the Australian box office record of $105m held by Avatar.
Meanwhile, Will Ferrell comedy Daddy’s Home took $3.55m to come in a second, bringing its takings to $9.8m, while Disney kid’s film The Good Dinosaur slipped from second to third, with $2.096m in revenue.
Fox film Joy, about the life of inventor Joy Mangano, took $1.76m from 252 screens while Alvin and The Chipmunks took $1.64m from 300 cinemas.
Suffragette which charts the Emmeline Pankhurst movement in the UK in the early 1900s took $688,211 from 122 screens last week.
Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
---|---|---|---|
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Disney) | $9,001,962 | 741 | $69,949,237 |
Daddy's Home (Paramount) | $3,555,237 | 0 | $9,887,287 |
The Good Dinosaur (Disney) | $2,096,618 | 380 | $7,222,056 |
Joy (Fox) | $1,766,670 | 252 | $5,080,475 |
Alvin And The Chipmunks: Road Chip (Fox) | $1,641,597 | 301 | $5,494,913 |
Suffragette (Transmission) | $688,211 | 122 | $2,159,923 |
Spectre (Sony) | $423,563 | 101 | $34,723,318 |
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (Roadshow) | $369,663 | 164 | $29,265,564 |
The Dressmaker (Universal) | $344,527 | 89 | $18,853,584 |
Hotel Transylvania 2 (Sony) | $308,668 | 188 | $10,975,588 |
Mr. Six (Chinalion Film) | $290,154 | 15 | $314,046 |
Youth (Studiocanal) | $239,054 | 36 | $638,991 |
The Belier Family (Palace) | $233,368 | 25 | $863,952 |
Bajirao Mastani (Eros) | $96,900 | 16 | $1,000,812 |
Creed (Wb) | $96,380 | 51 | $6,855,620 |
Carol (Transmission) | $95,246 | 14 | $95,246 |
Mojin: The Lost Legend (Chinalion Film) | $85,909 | 12 | $740,389 |
Dilwale (Mindblowing Films) | $47,524 | 21 | $1,063,183 |
Truth (Roadshow) | $46,768 | 21 | $415,170 |
Bridge Of Spies (Fox) | $45,781 | 20 | $7,559,744 |
Hi guys,
Think you’ve got the wrong info. Point Break released this week ($1.9M) and so did Peanuts ($1.2M).
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Hi Anonymous,
WE’ve approached MPDAA for that info but are still awaiting a response. Neither was included on the report we were sent.
Cheers,
Alex, editor, Mumbrella