This weekend, the top 20 films Australian box office grossed $14,423,935, down -21% from last weekend’s $18,242,127.
Top five
1. Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stich marks its second week at the top of the Australian box office as it made $6,392,836 over the weekend, down -21% from last week’s debut earnings $of 9,268,383. On a global scale, the Disney live action remake celebrated making $610.8 million worldwide, according to Deadline.
Synopsis: Lilo, a lonely young girl living on Kauaʻi, Hawaii, adopts a creature she believes is a dog. The creature, called Stitch, is a genetic experiment who escapes from another planet and arrives on Earth. Lilo, through care and commitment to the idea of family (Ohana), helps Stitch change his behaviour and he begins to learn what it means to care for others
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $17,117,254
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Tom Cruise’s final film as Ethan Hunt continues to sit behind the family-friendly Disney film, generating $3,453,558 at the box office, a -32% from its debut earnings of $5,048,049.
Synopsis: Ethan Hunt and the IMF team work to track a system called the Entity. The Entity has the power to control information and systems, and various nefarious groups seek to use it. Hunt and his team follow clues, face obstacles, and confront rivals as they try to stop the Entity from causing harm.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $16,662,643
3. Final Destination Bloodlines
Holding on to third place for a third week is Final Destination Bloodlines, which grossed $835,461 – down -35% from $1,286,456 made last week.
Synopsis: A young woman 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: $6,025,654
4. Bring Her Back
Making its debut is the Australian supernatural horror, directed by Danny and Michael Philippou, and written by Danny and Bill Hinzman. The film, which stars Academy Award nominated Sally Hawkins, made $561,442 in its first weekend and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 90%.
Synopsis: Two step-siblings find themselves c in a dark occult ritual, orchestrated to resurrect their foster mother’s deceased daughter.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $918,206
5. Peppa Meets the Baby Cinema Experience
Synopsis: Peppa Pig and her family are preparing for a new baby and sharing their journey on the big screen with ten new episodes and six new songs and music videos.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $561,442
6. The Phoenician Scheme
Synopsis: The Wes Anderson directed film follows businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio del Toro) names his daughter, a nun named Liesl, as heir to his estate. As Korda begins a new enterprise, they become the target of tycoons, terrorists, and assassins.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $397,658
7. Thunderbolts*
Synopsis: 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: $13,573,389
8. Sinners
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. Over the weekend, Variety reported Sinners surpassed the $350 million global benchmark.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $10,884,370
9. Saunkan Saunkanay 2
Synopsis: The Punjabi film follows Nirmal Singh (Ammy Virk) faces ongoing challenges in his married life, which become more complex when, frustrated with his two wives, he begins to consider taking a third.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $280,487
10. The Salt Path
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. The film has a 86% rating Rotten Tomatoes.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $1,680,459