Elysium tops Aussie box office on its opening weekend

The Sony Pictures distributed Elysium has topped the Australian box office on its opening weekend, taking home $3,474,793 across 317 screens.

The film, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp, the director of District 9, is set in the year 2154 where two classes of people exist: the very wealthy on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium and the rest, who lived on an overpopulated and ruined Earth. Starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, the film follows Damon’s character as he attempts to save the millions of people on Earth.

Elysium overtook the Eone/Hopscotch distributed Now You See Me which topped box offices last weekend in its debut. Now You See Me took home on its second week $2,582,830 across 265 screens.