Terminator: Dark Fate successfully unseats Joker with $3.34m across the weekend box office
Joker has finally been knocked from the top spot of the Australian box office after the release of Terminator: Dark Fate which took $3.34m across its first weekend over 561 screens. The film picks up where Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off, with Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning in their roles as Sarah Connor and the Terminator respectively.
Taking place 28 years after the end of T2, the film was directed by Tim Miller off a screenplay by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes and Billy Ray, and has grossed US$123.6m worldwide.
Terminator Dark Fate has leapt to the top of the Australian box office
For its fifth week in the box office, Joker took another $1.88m across 307 screens, pushing past $35m in total takings. That’s a 34% drop in takings from last week, but a reduction of just nine screens.
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil held third place with another $1.2m, adding to $6.6m in total takings across its three weeks in the box office. It was followed by Zombieland: Double Tap with $714,053 across 274 screens for a box office total of $4.72m across three weeks.
Hustlers, which is in its fourth week of release, took $654,638 across 275 screens for a running total of $7.73m, followed by Ride Like A Girl with $472,204 across 280 screens during its sixth week. The Australian film, which tells the story of jockey Michelle Payne, is sitting on $9.7m in total takings.
Judy Garland biopic Judy took another $371,416 in takings across 99 screens for its third week, putting it in seventh place on the box office charts, just above 47 Metres Down: Uncaged.
47 Metres Down: Uncaged is a survival horror film, and a sequel to 47 Metres Down, directed by Johannes Roberts and written by Roberts and Ernest Riera. It stars Sophie Nélisse, Corinne Foxx, Brianne Tju, Sistine Stallone, Davi Santos, Khylin Rhambo, Brec Bassinger, and John Corbett and follows a group of girls who scuba dive to a sunken Mayan city where they are trapped by a group of sharks.
Horror film Ready Or Not landed in ninth place with a $230,408 taking across 220 screens for its second week, followed by Housefull 4 with $175,944 across 41 screens.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminator: Dark Fate (Disney) | $3,340,883 | 561 | $3,340,883 |
| The Joker (Wb) | $1,882,442 | 307 | $35,405,700 |
| Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil (Disney) | $1,206,058 | 339 | $6,757,610 |
| Zombieland: Doubletap (Sony) | $714,053 | 274 | $4,745,158 |
| Hustlers (Roadshow) | $654,638 | 275 | $8,211,110 |
| Ride Like A Girl (Transmission) | $472,204 | 280 | $10,519,632 |
| Judy (Universal) | $371,416 | 99 | $1,915,027 |
| 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (Roadshow) | $294,768 | 159 | $303,333 |
| Ready Or Not (Fox) | $230,408 | 220 | $827,509 |
| Housefull 4 (Mindblowing Films) | $175,944 | 41 | $599,344 |
| Blinded By The Light (Universal) | $140,226 | 57 | $477,518 |
| Pavarotti (Madman) | $139,817 | 81 | $502,800 |
| Abominable (Universal) | $120,100 | 154 | $9,033,530 |
| Downton Abbey (Universal) | $107,156 | 131 | $13,467,300 |
| The Angry Birds Movie 2 (Sony) | $88,278 | 97 | $9,717,337 |
| Kaithi (Southern Star) | $86,626 | 18 | $86,626 |
| After The Wedding (Rialto) | $77,818 | 95 | $295,224 |
| Gemini Man (Paramount) | $76,230 | 99 | $2,998,766 |
| Balloon (Studiocanal) | $70,570 | 35 | $157,154 |
| Brittany Runs A Marathon (Transmission) | $64,763 | 18 | $160,273 |
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