The only possible challenger to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 was Due Date, which performed strongly to leave the rest of the top ten behind on $2.67 million. Potter was still enormous on $6.72 million. Of the other new releases, Fair Game arguably under-performed on 138 screens, only making $587,000, while The Last Exorcism wasn’t far behind.

Releases in the coming week won’t make a big impact on [...]

To no one’s surprise, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 took its cake and ate it well. With earnings of almost $15.3M it holds the second-highest opening weekend in Australia ever (after Twilight: New Moon) and the sixth-highest over in the States. The rest of the top 10 stayed pretty steady position and [...]

It was a quiet week across Australia but Jackass 3D stayed on top in its second week over The Social Network. New apocalyptic release Skyline overtook Red for third place but the latter still holds strong in its third week of release.

Other new entries into the top 10 were English comedy Wild Target and war drama The American. Far superior film Winter’s Bone opened on just 12 screens to little [...]

Jackass 3D predictably went to top spot, earning $1.4m more than The Social Network – which in its second week has still performed strongly. The only other new entry is arguably a slight surprise – Bollywood comedy Golmaal 3 made just under $185,000 on 18 screens. Proof there’s lack of a link between Australians and their own cinema – The Loved Ones came [...]

Three new releases, including Paranormal Activity 2 and Life As We Know It, made the top ten, and the aforementioned entered at number one and two respectively, pushing Eat Pray Love down to fourth place (although still making a healthy $1.23million).

Although Aussie fare Road Train and Summer Coda don’t have the screens to warrant big takings, [...]

Milla Jovovich and Resident Evil: Afterlife couldn’t topple Eat Pray Love, which held on to top spot on its second week – although not comfortably, with heist film The Town hot on its heels ($2.16 and $2.03m respectively). Let The Right One In remake [...]