6th to 9th February 2014 - Weekend Results : Robocop takes control

Robocop took control of the box office wresting control from the 3 week old wolf of wall street.  Robocop managed 2.28m over weekend besting Wolf by a mere 40k which slipped by 40% from last weekend.  Robocop made a nice average on what appeared to be a surprisingly low screen count of only 224.  I thought, given this film would be considered to be one of the bigger releases of early 2014 stateside, I thought that this would have a much higher screen count.  After pulling off the largest ever R18+ opening in Australia, Wolf has now managed to surpass the 22 year old record owned by Basic Instinct during the week, making it now the highest grossing R18+ film in Australian history.  Taking into account adjusted figures, Wolf will still need a further 7m before it is on par with Basic Instinct. This is still quite possible given it has already made 15m to date.  Last Vegas opened in 3rd place with 1.6m.  12 years a slave slipped into 4th by 38%.  the book thief rounded out the 5.

Also opened over the weekend was Mandela: Long Walk to freedom with a very disappointing 570k.  Labor Day however outright bombed with a mere 332k.  Last weeks bomb Grudge Match must have crashed as it disappeared from the top 20 altogether.

Most of the big holiday movies took a further hit over the weekend losing a large number of screens.  In particular, the hobbit 2 lost more than half the screens it was on this week sealing it fate of falling short of the 40m mark.  Surprisingly it held the largest screen loss of the entire top 20 this week.  Frozen has continued to track towards the 35m mark.

Here is the top 20:

TW	LW	Movie	Rating	Distributor	Weekend Gross	% Change	Screen Count / Change		Average	Total Gross	Week #
1	N	Robocop	M	Sony	$ 2,281,135	-	224	-	$10,184	$ 2,281,135	1
2	1	The Wolf of Wall Street	R18+	Roadshow	$ 2,241,131	-40.2%	337	12	$6,650	$ 15,532,150	3
3	N	Last Vegas	M	Universal	$ 1,640,336	-	266	-	$6,167	$ 1,790,846	1
4	2	12 Years a Slave	MA15+	Icon	$ 721,272	-37.8%	132	11	$5,464	$ 2,903,345	2
5	3	The Book Thief	PG	Fox	$ 649,499	-40.7%	250	-12	$2,598	$ 12,131,937	5
6	N	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom	M	Roadshow	$ 569,119	-	226	-	$2,518	$ 645,802	1
7	4	Frozen	PG	Disney	$ 495,308	-36.2%	205	-45	$2,416	$ 33,713,067	7
8	7	Philomena	M	Hopscotch	$ 432,221	-36.2%	175	-18	$2,470	$ 9,998,549	7
9	N	Labor Day	M	Paramount	$ 331,560	-	170	-	$1,950	$ 441,793	1
10	5	Saving Mr. Banks	PG	Disney	$ 291,430	-58.4%	165	-85	$1,766	$ 9,508,648	5
11	6	Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones	MA15+	Paramount	$ 263,452	-62.0%	183	-23	$1,440	$ 3,205,035	3
12	11	The Railway Man	M	Transmission	$ 193,275	-48.5%	141	-49	$1,371	$ 6,694,738	7
13	9	The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug	M	Warner Bros	$ 176,627	-65.6%	89	-113	$1,985	$ 37,969,636	7
14	10	47 Ronin	M	Universal	$ 160,448	-66.2%	117	-105	$1,371	$ 4,494,856	4
15	8	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit	M	Paramount	$ 157,353	-72.4%	150	-85	$1,049	$ 5,489,867	4
16	14	American Hustle	M	Roadshow	$ 116,824	-55.9%	70	-42	$1,669	$ 12,848,512	9
17	13	Free Birds	G	Roadshow	$ 100,196	-64.6%	149	-57	$672	$ 5,799,450	5
18	16	Her	MA15+	Sony	$ 87,069	-36.9%	33	0	$2,638	$ 1,080,436	4
19	-	The Great Beauty	MA15+	Palace	$ 85,352	-12.2%	16	0	$5,335	$ 761,897	3
20	-	From Vegas to Macau	M	Chinalion	$ 83,476	1429.1%	11	10	$7,589	$ 88,935	2