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Australian box office report: How to Train Your Dragon soars to #1

Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Australian box office.

Box office updates thanks to Numero.

How to Train Your Dragon flies into top spot at the box office this week, the latest live action remake to ascend to number one. Materialists opens in second place, ahead of Lilo & Stitch, while Karate Kid: Legends kicks back in fourth spot.

Here are the top 10 films at the Australian box office, June 12-18:

1. How to Train Your Dragon (Universal) $8,297,861 (new release)
2. Materialists (Sony) $2,572,623 (new release)
3. Lilo & Stitch (Walt Disney) $2,062,588 (cume total $26,339,169)
4. Karate Kid: Legends (Sony) $1,353,387 (cume total $5,555,016)
5. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount) $1,193,170 (cume total $21,749,773)
6. Ballerina (Roadshow) $1,077,630 (cume total $3,627,475)
7. Bring Her Back (Sony) $316,640 (cume total $2,276,022)
8. Dangerous Animals (Kismet) $289,168 (new release)
9. The Phoenician Scheme (Universal) $215,577 (cume total $1,149,356)
10. Final Destination: Bloodlines (Warner Bros.) $200,775 (cume total $7,116,962)