By Brendan Swift
Animated feature Toy Story 3 has cracked the $30 million mark at the box office in just its third weekend at cinemas.
It marks Disney's second major hit this year after Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland took $37.56 million. Only one Disney film passed the $20 million mark the previous year – the animated feature UP, which took just under $28 million.
Toy Story 3's $6.36 million box office gross on the weekend was just 1 per cent lower than the previous week. The film was shown across 469 screens, pushing its screen average to $13,563. It has now grossed $30.29 million in total.
Meanwhile, the Hoyts-distributed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse posted a 58 per cent drop in its second week after taking almost $5.4 million across 533 screens. It has now grossed $23.15 million.
Sony's remake of The Karate Kid took $3.69 million in its opening weekend across 241 screens to post the strongest screen average of $15,297. Including previews, it has taken almost $6.75 million.
Among Australian films, crime drama Animal Kingdom continues to perform strongly, adding $250,185 in its sixth week. That amount, posted across 66 screens, represented a 21 per cent drop.
Adoption drama The Waiting City, which stars Joel Edgerton and Radha Mitchell, opened with $31,991 in preview screenings ahead of its release this Thursday.
Australian films at the box office 2010
|
Film
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Budget
|
Distributor
|
Opening w/e
|
Box Office
|
|
Bran Nue Dae
|
$6.5m
|
Roadshow
|
$1,612,102
|
$7,565,476
|
|
The Kings of Mykonos…
|
$6m est.
|
Paramount/Transmission
|
$1,828,902
|
$4,886,658
|
|
Animal Kingdom
|
$5m est.
|
Madman
|
$604,139
|
$4,046,166
|
|
Beneath Hill 60
|
$9.5m
|
Paramount/Transmission
|
$548,694
|
$3,194,417
|
|
Daybreakers
|
$20m est.
|
Hoyts
|
$1,064,244
|
$2,448,050
|
|
I Love You Too
|
$6m
|
Roadshow
|
$113,483
|
$2,359,478
|
|
Bright Star
|
$16.7m est.
|
Roadshow/Hopscotch
|
–
|
$2,157,601
|
|
Accidents Happen
|
$6.5m est.
|
Hopscotch
|
$39,721
|
$153,179
|
|
Love, Lust & Lies
|
–
|
Beyond Entertainment
|
$20,674
|
$134,949
|
|
Lou
|
–
|
Kojo Pictures
|
$27,371
|
$55,942
|
|
Girl Clock!
|
$1m
|
Self-distributed
|
$8,857
|
$43,434
|
|
Separation City
|
$4.8m
|
Hoyts
|
$15,278
|
$32,159
|
|
The Waiting City
|
$2m
|
Hopscotch
|
–
|
$31,991
|
|
Triangle
|
$8m est.
|
Icon
|
$6,081
|
$11,282
|
|
Going Vertical
|
–
|
The Pack/Blue Sea Films
|
$3,879
|
$9,699
|
|
Savages Crossing
|
$3.5m
|
MediaKin/GAP
|
$4,432
|
$8,651
|
|
Playing For Charlie
|
–
|
The Pack
|
$2,665
|
$5,867
|
|
The Horseman
|
Umbrella Entertainment
|
$2,270
|
$2,270
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
|
$27,147,269
|