Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Australian box office – thanks to Numero.
One’s a franchise-ending thirteenth installment of an iconic title, the other a sleep-disrupting original mid-budget affair—but what this week’s box office champs have in common is that they’re both horror movies.
Halloween Ends may have left Flicks’ Daniel Rutledge saying the “franchise coughs and sputters to its latest (final?) end as a sad shadow of its former self” in his Flicks review, but it’s opened at the top of the Australian box office this week—just. Right behind it, by only around $70k, is Smile, a runaway horror hit that’s still doing business in its third week of release (“a dark, bloody scary horror that has left a big grin on my face,” Rutledge’s review of Smile said a few weeks back).
Different kinds of escapism round out the top four spots, in the form of Don’t Worry Darling and Ticket to Paradise, while all-star Amsterdam slumped to fifth place, mirroring its disastrous box office flop elsewhere that’s led to predictions it will lose $100M.
Here are the top 10 films at the Australian box office, October 13 – 19.
1. Halloween Ends (Universal) $1,746,056 (new release)
2. Smile (Paramount) $1,684,739 (cume total $5.66M)
3. Don’t Worry Darling (Warner Bros) $1,494,609 (cume total $5.49M)
4. Ticket to Paradise (Universal) $1,061,175 (cume total $14.51M)
5. Amsterdam (Walt Disney) $639,527 (cume total $1.89M)
6. DC League of Super Pets (Warner Bros) $637,026 (cume total $17.39M)
7. Wog Boys Forever (Kismet) $495,951 (cume total $2.50M)
8. The Legend of Maula Jatt (Grange House) $368,726 (new release)
9. See How They Run (Walt Disney) $295,063 (cume total $1.97M)
10. Paws Of Fury: The Legend Of Hank (Paramount) $204,135 (cume total $3.66M)
