Terminator: Dark Fate successfully unseats Joker with $3.34m across the weekend box office

Joker has finally been knocked from the top spot of the Australian box office after the release of Terminator: Dark Fate which took $3.34m across its first weekend over 561 screens. The film picks up where Terminator 2: Judgment Day left off, with Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning in their roles as Sarah Connor and the Terminator respectively.

Taking place 28 years after the end of T2, the film was directed by Tim Miller off a screenplay by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes and Billy Ray, and has grossed US$123.6m worldwide.

Terminator Dark Fate has leapt to the top of the Australian box office