Will Smith’s action-thriller Bad Boys: Ride or Die has opened strongly at the local box office while Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has become the biggest local film of the year.
The fourth installment in the Bad Boys franchise took the top spot after grossing $4.12 million in its opening weekend across 554 screens. It leapfrogged The Garfield Movie, which still grossed $5.69 million in its second weekend across 399 screens. Both films were released by Sony.
George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga took $1.07 million – a drop of more than 50 per cent in its third weekend.
While the film has underperformed expectations, it has now taken $8.22 million in Australia, making it the highest grossing local film since the release of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic in 2022.
Live-action/animated fantasy film IF took out fourth place over the weekend with $963,102. After four weeks, it has now grossed $7.9 million. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes grossed another $587,205 in its fifth weekend, taking its tally to $11.36 million.
The privately-financed Australian film The Way, My Way has continued to outperform expectations, taking another $157,307 in its fourth weekend. It is just the third Australian film of the year to pass the $1 million mark at cinemas.
The Way, My Way tells the story of a stubborn Australian man who is transformed by walking the 800-kilometre-long Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route through Spain. Filmmakers Bill Bennett and Jennifer Cluff have shown a canny understanding of their audience, targeting the huge Camino community with an authentic film which is now also resonating with the broader cinema-going public.
Australian box office data is sourced via Numero.
Australian films box office performance (2024)
| Film | Budget (est) | Distributor | Opening w/e | Weeks | Box office |
| Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga | $400m est. | Warner Bros. | $3.33m | 2 | $8.227,847 |
| Force of Nature: The Dry 2 | Roadshow | $1.6m | 13 | $7.31m | |
| The Way, My Way | – | Maslow Entertainment | $218,163 | 3 | $1,190,978 |
| Late Night With The Devil | – | Maslow Entertainment | $242,000 | 8 | $905,000 |
| The Road to Patagonia | Madman | 16 | $371,000 | ||
| Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back | Maslow Entertainment | $88,000 | 9 | $365,278 | |
| The Trust Fall: Julian Assange | Journeyman Pictures/Films For Change | $1300 | 19 | $334,000 | |
| Before Dawn | $10m | Umbrella | $99,971 | 9 | $264,000 |
| Just a Farmer | $1.9m | VAM Paddock Productions | $40,070 | 9 | $143,000 |
| The Rooster | Bonsai Films | $24,480 | 15 | $72,000 | |
| The Emu War | – | Umbrella Entertainment | – | 17 | $13,298 |
| TOTAL | $19.19m |
Films shot in Australia box office performance (2024)
| Film | Budget (est) | Distributor | Opening w/e | Weeks | Box office |
| Anyone But You* | $US25m | Sony | $2.87m | 15 | $22.64m |
| Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | $US135-$US150m | Warner Bros. | $5.6m | 8 | $18.85m |
| The Fall Guy | $US125m | Universal | $3.7m | 4 | $13.69m |
| Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | $US160m | Disney | $3.78m | 2 | $11.36m |
| TOTAL | $66.54m |