Australian Box Office Report: Tarantino’s eighth hits number one

It had its limited release in 70mm and now The Hateful Eight has entered the box office arena and what a first week it enjoyed.

After its official opening, Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film has shot to number one with an opening AU$2.4 million, just edging out The Revenant which made AU$2.2 million.

Following on from Quentin, Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson’s tour of Australia and New Zealand over the past couple of weeks, the brutal western made $311k in NZ too.

Goosebumps continues to surprise by taking third spot from Star Wars, but only just. The spooky kids movie made AU$1.9 million while Star Wars keeps doing impressive numbers in its sixth week with AU$1.8 million.

Meanwhile, The 5th Wave, Sisters, The Big Short and Daddy’s Home all hover above AU$1 million, keeping the battle for top spot close and the Aussie Box Office looking strong.

Hoping to keep those good numbers rolling, opening this week is comedy Dirty Grandpa starring Zac Efron and Robert Deniro; Six time Academy Award nominee Spotlight and Room which has nominated for four Academy Awards.

All figures from The Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia and Box Office Mojo.

———-

This content has recently been ported from its original home on The Iris and may have formatting errors – images may not be showing up, or duplicated, and galleries may not be working. We are slowly fixing these issue. If you spot any major malfunctions making it impossible to read the content, however, please let us know at editor AT theaureview.com.