This weekend, the top 20 films Australian box office grossed $18,218,052, down +50% from last weekend’s $12,110,561.
Top five
1. Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch has dethroned Final Destination: Bloodlines to take number one. The 2002 Disney hit is the latest from the archives to get the live action treatment and has proven to be a hit, making $9,268,382 in its first weekend at the Australian box office.
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: $9,268,382
2. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Swooping into second at the box office is the eighth and final installment in the film series. The action/thriller, released on May 22, sees star Tom Cruise do death-defying stunts as Impossible Missions Force agent Ethan Hunt. Over the weekend, the film made $5,047,212 at the box office.
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: $11,936,098
3. Final Destination: Bloodlines
Last week’s number one at drops down to third at the box office, but still had audiences on the edges of their seats after screening across 282 cinemas. Over the weekend, the film made $1,286,642, down -37% from last week’s earnings of $2,039,949.
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: $4,824,465
4. 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: $13,033,265
5. 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.
Total Australian Box Office gross to date: $10,470,089
Top six to ten
6. The Salt Path
7. A Minecraft Movie
8. OCEAN with David Attenborough
9. Tinā
10. Unko Sweater – The Woolen Sweater