With more than half the country's population in lockdown, it followed that the box office would take a tumble, with no title cracking $1 million last weekend.
Cate Shortland will make her Hollywood directing debut on a Marvel superhero adventure which will star Scarlett Johansson as the Black Widow.
Due to open in Australia on March 19, Will Gluck's 'Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway' has been moved to September - the second major release to be postponed after the James Bond adventure 'No Time to Die'.
With 16 million Australians in lockdown last weekend, the box office prospects for James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' were fairly slim.
English actor O-T Fagbenle will appear alongside Scarlett Johansson in 'Black Widow', the Marvel movie which marks the Hollywood debut of director Cate Shortland.
Simu Liu will play the title character in Marvel Studios' 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings', the first Asian lead in a Marvel superhero movie.
With Sydney's cinemas still shuttered, a snap lockdown in effect in South East Queensland, Victorian and South Australian theatres just reopening, and the Olympics competing for eyeballs, it wasn't going to be smooth sailing for Disney's 'Jungle Cruise'.
The theatrical debut of Disney's 'Black Widow' smashed pandemic-era records in the US, but in Australia, where Sydney remains in lockdown, the film couldn't surpass the opening weekends of recent titles 'F9' or 'Godzilla vs. Kong'.