Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Australian box office – thanks to Numero.
Don’t Worry Darling and Amsterdam both entered Australian cinemas with a noticeable monolith of shame hovering over them. The former got tangled in some knotty behind-the-scenes scandals while the latter saw the director facing hefty and troublesome allegations. Did these issues factor into their respective box office performances? Who knows.
What we do know is that Olivia Wilde’s thriller mystery proved much more favourable to audiences than O. Russell’s star-crammed crime caper, earning $2.7mil versus Amsterdam‘s 1.25mil. That’s over double the earnings. Hakuna matata, darling.
Another note-worthy new release, Australian film Wog Boys Forever, got oh so close to collecting a sweet million in its opening week. Impressively, Smile widened its grin by grossing more in its second week than in its first.
Here are the top 10 films at the Australian box office, October 6 – 12.
1. Don’t Worry Darling (Warner Bros) $2,702,906 (cume total $3.99mil.)
2. DC League of Super Pets (Warner Bros) $2,304,498 (cume total $16.75mil.)
3. Smile (Paramount) $2,052,510 (cume total $3.98mil.)
4. Ticket to Paradise (Universal) $1,658,358 (cume total $13.45mil.)
5. Amsterdam (Walt Disney) $1,251,022 (new release)
6. Wog Boys Forever (Kismet) $980,914 (new release)
7. Paws Of Fury: The Legend Of Hank (Paramount) $700,777 (cume total $3.45mil.)
8. See How They Run (Walt Disney) $521,670 (cume total $1.67mil.)
9. Baabe Bhangra Paunde Ne (White Hill) $325,652 (new release)
10. Fall (Roadshow) $314,848 (cume total $2.17mil.)
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