This weekend, the top 20 films Australian box office grossed $7,261,610, down -18% from last weekend’s $8,811,843.
Top Five
1. Final Destination Bloodlines
Fourteen years after the last Final Destination film, the sixth instalment of the franchise has dethroned Marvel Studis’ Thunderbolts* after it claimed the top spot for the past few weeks. The horror film returned to Australian cinemas over the weekend, making $2,938,102 across 362 screens.
Synopsis: A teenage girl experiences recurring nightmares about a tower collapse in the 1960s and returns home to find the person who can break the cycle. She comes to understand that these events follow an order and tries to stop Death from taking her family’s lives.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $2,938,102
2. Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts* slipped to second spot in the Box Office Rankings after making $1,500,052 over the weekend across 393 screens, representing a -51% in gross earnings. Globally, the Marvel films global passed the three-century mark to reach $325.7M, according to Deadline.
Synopsis:Directed by Jake Schreier, Marvel brings together a team of antiheroes — Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) — on a mission that brings them face to face with parts of their past.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $12,088,330
3. Sinners
Now in its fifth week at the Australian Box Office, Sinners is seeing a slight decline in audience numbers after it made $806,919 over the weekend, down – 32% from $1,184,348 made from the weekend before. The adventure/horror also topped the $300M mark at the Global Box Office, according to Deadline.
Synopsis: Michael B. Jordan stars as twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, former soldiers who bootleg. Set in the deep South in 1932, the twins return to the Mississippi Delta with money and Irish beer to open a juke joint bought from a man and enlist their cousin Sammie to help. However, trouble follows when they face a force beyond the natural world.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $9,808,949
4. A Minecraft Movie
A Minecraft Movie maintains fourth place at the Box Office, as it counts seven weeks at Australian cinemas. Over the weekend it made $585,795, down -19% from last weekend’s earnings of $722,275
Synopsis: A portal pulls four misfits into the Overworld, a land made of cubes shaped by imagination. To return home, they must learn the terrain and complete a quest with a crafter named Steve. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks and Emma Myers and is based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $55,652,120
5. The Salt Path
After one week, The Salt Path ranks fifth in the Australian Box Office, making $401,194 and screening across 177 cinemas. The film is the movie adaptation of Raynor Winn’s memoir and stars Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs. Last week, the film made $166,058 in its debut.
Synopsis: ‘The Salt Path’ tells the story of Raynor and Moth Winn, who, after losing their farm and investment, become homeless and turn to nature. They choose to walk the South West Coast Path, a 630-mile route along the English coastline, in search of a sense of place and connection.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $738,948
Top six to ten
6. OCEAN with David Attenborough
7. Tinā
8. The Accountant 2
9. Unko Sweater – The Woolen Sweater
10. Hurry Up Tomorrow