Weekend box office: Mamma Mia 2 sings a merry tune

Australians couldn’t resist Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, which took $5.88 million across 318 theatres on its opening weekend. This outperformed the original Mamma Mia, which took $5.4 million on its debut in 2008. A very different film, the action movie The Equalizer 2, came in second with $2.99 million.

Here are the top ten films at the box office in Australia, July 19 to July 22.

1. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Universal) $5,880,919
2. The Equalizer 2 (Sony) $2,992,559
3. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Disney) $1,958,655
4. Incredibles 2 (Disney) $1,744,128
5. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (Sony) $1,636,207
6. Skyscraper (Universal) $1,361,796
7. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Universal) $1,345,633
8. Ocean’s 8 (Roadshow) $263,398
9. Show Dogs (Roadshow) $177,995
10. Adrift (Roadshow) $132,475

Source: Numero. Estimated figures as at 1:24pm 23/7/2018