Zac Efron, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne comedy Bad Neigbours tops weekend box office
Bad Neighbours, starring Zac Efron, Seth Rogen and Australia’s Rose Byrne, has knocked The Other Woman out of the Australian weekend box office number one ranking after taking $2.631m across 296 screens on its opening weekend.
The comedy about a couple with a newborn baby being forced to live next door to a fraternity house beat Cameron Diaz’s rom-com The Other Woman, which topped last week’s weekend box office.
The Other Woman took $2.239m across 328 screens over the weekend, taking its total Australian box office to over $14.5m.
The Amazing Spiderman 2: Rise of Electro was pushed into third place despite being screened across 156 more screens than Bad Neighbours. It managed to take $1.354m across 452 screens, taking the Marvel Comics movie’s total Australian box office to $13,569,686.
The Grand Budapest Hotel climbed up a ranking from last weekend, pushing The Lego Movie into fifth place. The Wes Anderson comedy brought in $1.068m across 244 screens compared to The Lego Movie’s $766,662 across 329 screens.
Dystopian adventure Divergent has taken its total Australian box office takings to $9,710,987 after bringing in $536,337 across 220 screens over the weekend.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier continues to approach the $20k mark for total Australian box office takings, having brought in $510,684 across 440 screens.
Title (Distributor)
Weekend B/O
Screens
Total B/O
Bad Neighbours (Universal)
$2,631,217
296
$2,631,217
The Other Woman (Fox)
$2,239,553
328
$14,675,428
The Amazing Spider-man 2: Rise Of Electro (Sony)
$1,354,873
452
$13,569,686
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox)
$1,068,088
244
$8,415,427
The Lego Movie (Roadshow)
$766,662
329
$28,443,110
Divergent (Eone)
$536,337
220
$9,710,987
Transcendence (Roadshow)
$526,651
240
$2,268,641
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Disney)
$510,684
440
$19,164,647
Fading Gigolo (Paramount)
$244,247
58
$369,437
Mr. Peabody And Sherman (Fox)
$193,662
218
$12,782,477
Muppets Most Wanted (Disney)
$153,202
150
$4,175,616
The Invisible Woman (Eone)
$92,411
0
$591,890
Noah (Paramount)
$90,641
111
$12,324,116
3d Naked Ambition (Imperial)
$55,150
16
$219,446
Belle (Icon)
$51,603
97
$57,077
Chinese Puzzle (Paramount)
$34,658
23
$292,140
Iceman (Chinalion Film)
$33,962
10
$33,962
Young & Beautiful (Eone)
$31,314
20
$31,314
52 Tuesdays (Vendetta)
$23,488
10
$49,665
2 States (Mindblowing Films)
$23,469
14
$397,420
Miranda Ward worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017, eventually becoming deputy editor. Miranda joined Mumbrella in September 2013 from Sky News.
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Bad Neighbours
Cameron Diaz
Divergent
Rose Byrne
Seth Rogen
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Lego Movie
The Other Woman
Wes Anderson
Zac Efron
