Transformers: Rise of the Beasts debuts at number one at the Australian box office
This weekend, the Australian box office made $12,837,312, up 1% from last week’s $12,703,425.
For its first weekend in cinemas, Paramount’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts took $3.5 million nationally with fans igniting theatres for the seventh instalment to the franchise. Given the flick has already been available in overseas markets for three weekends, the film has now grossed $341 million worldwide.
Starring Hamilton Broadway alum Anthony Ramos alongside Liza Koshy, Pete Davidson, Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and Ron Pearlman, Rise of the Beasts follows 2018’s Bumblebee.
Coming in second for its fourth weekend at the box office was Sony’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The Marvel animation brought in $2 million nationally, down 30%.
Debuting at number three was Sony’s No Hard Feelings. The Jennifer Lawrence-led comedy saw $1.7 million for its first weekend at the movies.
For its second week in cinemas, Ezra Miller’s The Flash brought in $1.4 million nationally, down 62% and coming in fourth.
Walt Disney’s Elemental came in at number five, recording $1.4 million nationally, down 12%.
Falling out of the top five this weekend was Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Universal’s Fast X, Madman’s Red and White and Brass (debut) and Roadshow’s You Hurt My Feelings.
#1 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – $3,576,377
Optimus Prime and the Autobots take on their biggest challenge yet. When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, they must team up with a powerful faction of Transformers known as the Maximals to save Earth. The film grossed $3,576,377, averaging $7,482 over 478 screens.
#2 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – $2,094,439
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse follows Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), who is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. The film grossed $2,094,439, averaging $4,771 over 439 screens.
#3 No Hard Feelings – $1,734,127
On the brink of losing her childhood home, a desperate woman (Lawrence) agrees to date a wealthy couple’s introverted and awkward 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman). However, he proves to be more of a challenge than she expected, and time is running out before she loses it all. The film grossed $1,734,127, averaging 5,319 over 326 screens.
#4 The Flash – $1,469,228
Worlds collide in The Flash when the Flash (Miller) uses his superpowers to travel back in time to change the events of the past. However, when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, he becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod (Michael Shannon) has returned, threatening annihilation. With no other superheroes to turn to, the Flash looks to coax a very different Batman (Michael Keaton) out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian — albeit not the one he’s looking for. The film grossed $1,469,228, averaging $3,646 over 403 screens.
#5 Elemental – $1,401,505
Elemental journeys alongside an unlikely pair, Ember (Leah Lewis) and Wade (Mamoudou Athie), in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The fiery young woman and the go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. The film grossed $1,401,505 averaging $3,603 over 389 screens.