Out of the three openers this week in Charlie St. Cloud, The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, none could topple Despicable Me amidst a school holiday weekend, which took $2.2m in its third week. Wall Street: MNS had to settle for second and a mediocre opening of $1.7m, but over in the States it managed to grab top position over fellow opener Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga’Hoole, the Australian-made animation to reach our screens this Thursday.

The only local film in the top-10, Tomorrow When The War Began passed the $10m mark over the weekend, making it within reach of the top-20 highest grossing Aussie films of all time. It will be joined by Legend of the Guardians but Steve Carell’s Dinner for Schmucks could strongly challenge the animations and kid-friendly films currently dominating.

Australian Box Office: Weekend 25-26 Sep 2010
# Film Title/Distributor/Box Office (AUD)
* Indicates new release

1 DESPICABLE ME, UNIVERSAL, 2,214,092
2 *WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, FOX 1,721,538
3 THE LAST AIRBENDER, PARAMOUNT, 1,525,619
4 THE OTHER GUYS, SONY PICTURES, 1,035,647
5 *EASY A, SONY PICTURES, 913,833
6 CATS & DOGS 2, ROADSHOW, 864,311
7 TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN, PARAMOUNT, 833,059
8 *DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, FOX, 745,503
9 *CHARLIE ST. CLOUD, UNIVERSAL, 631,331
10 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE, WALT DISNEY, 540,599

[Source: MPDAA.org.au]

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