Red 2 tops Aussie box office

September 2, 2013 5:15

Red 2 Action comedy sequel Red 2 starring Bruce Willis has taken top honours at the Australian box office over the weekend, its first weekend in the local market.

The Hopscotch/eOne distributed film premiered on 246 screens and took $1,450,315. The distributor also took out second place with Now You See Me making $1,366,459 across 244 screens in its fourth weekend. Elysium, last weekend’s box office topper, slipped back to third place taking $1,324,258 across 280 screens.

Several other films premiered over the weekend including the Steve Jobs biopic Jobs which made just $571,837 on 179 screens and the Morgan Spurlock directed documentary about boy band One Direction, One Direction: This is us, which made $135,418 across 67 screens.

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Brooke Hemphill

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