Downton Abbey narrowly tops the Australian box office with $3.2m in its first weekend

Downton Abbey, the film continuation of the TV series of the same name, has narrowly knocked It: Chapter 2 off the top spot in the Australian box office, taking $3.22m in its first weekend across 502 screens.

It: Chapter 2 took $3.15m across 363 screens, a 47% drop from its first weekend, for a running total of $11m.

The Downton Abbey film picks up where the TV series left of when it concluded in 2015