Warner Bros' 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' has finally ended an eight week run at the top of the box office for 'Avatar: The Way of Water'.
Indian spy thriller 'Pathaan', starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, has enjoyed a bumper first weekend at the box office, coming in at no. 2 behind 'Avatar: The Way of Water'.
In North America, Paramount's 'Babylon' has been labelled a box office bomb. Australian audiences, so far at least, seem to be a little more enthused by Damien Chazelle's starry latest about the excess of 1920s Hollywood.
'M3GAN' and 'Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre' each enjoyed healthy debuts over the weekend, though 'Avatar: The Way of Water' remains far and away the main attraction at the box office.
'Avatar: The Way of Water' has proved the bumper summer hit exhibitors hoped it would be. Some four weekends in, the James Cameron sequel - with a cume of $66.7 million - is already the the sixth highest grossing film to ever be released in Australia.
Disney's 'Avatar: The Way of Water' absolutely dominated cinemas in its opening weekend, capturing an 87 per cent market share.
'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'
remains far and away the main event at the box office, out-performing the next highest grossing title, 'Black Adam', by nearly tenfold. 'She Said' was the best performing new title, drawing a bigger crowd in Australia, pro-rata, than in North America.
Find someone who went to the movies last weekend, and there's around a three in four chance they went to see 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'.