Doctor Strange posts bumper opening weekend
Disney’s latest fantasy flick Doctor Strange went straight in at the top of the Australian box office over the weekend with takings of $6.424m.
The film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as a noted surgeon who loses the use of his hands in a car accident before being inducted into a secret magical sect, was shown on 643 screens and knocked last week’s top film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back into third place.
Tom Cruise’s flick managed just $1.212m across 332 screens, proving less appealing than Girl on a Train, which had takings of $1.261m over the weekend; its total takings now north of $13m.
Despite being the Halloween weekend horror film Ouija: Origin of Evil could muster only $467,924 on 169 screens.
Meanwhile, the Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher film Keeping Up With The Joneses had a horror show of its own taking just $580,400 across 256 screens on just its second weekend.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Strange (Disney) | $6,424,701 | 643 | $6,470,554 |
| The Girl On The Train (Eone) | $1,261,288 | 297 | $13,077,583 |
| Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Paramount) | $1,212,576 | 332 | $4,579,092 |
| Keeping Up With The Joneses (Fox) | $580,400 | 256 | $2,004,137 |
| Inferno (Sony) | $485,726 | 291 | $4,818,238 |
| Ouija: Origin Of Evil (Universal) | $467,924 | 169 | $1,615,437 |
| Hell Or High Water (Madman) | $351,123 | 87 | $380,272 |
| Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Fox) | $260,235 | 195 | $10,817,443 |
| Cafe Society (Eone) | $176,787 | 69 | $580,072 |
| Deepwater Horizon (Roadshow) | $150,864 | 176 | $4,358,485 |
| The Secret Life Of Pets (Universal) | $136,693 | 179 | $29,172,693 |
| Bridget Jones's Baby (Universal) | $126,418 | 106 | $17,033,419 |
| Storks (Wb) | $112,646 | 138 | $7,966,552 |
| Robinson Crusoe (Studiocanal) | $108,623 | 162 | $110,223 |
| Where Am I Going? (Palace) | $74,631 | 14 | $634,415 |
| One Piece Film: Gold (Madman) | $74,049 | 42 | $78,299 |
| Sully (Roadshow) | $70,392 | 76 | $12,996,314 |
| Luck-key (Jbg Pictures) | $69,282 | 12 | $69,282 |
| The Magnificent Seven (Sony) | $68,418 | 100 | $8,314,398 |
| Elle (Sony) | $63,105 | 16 | $71,519 |
