While Toy Story 5 remained Australia’s No. 1 film for a third consecutive weekend, the biggest new arrival at the local box office was jackass: best and last, which debuted in third place.
The final instalment in the long-running Jackass franchise opened with $1.29 million across the weekend (Thursday, July 2nd-Sunday, July 5th), finishing behind Toy Story 5 with $6.02 million and Minions & Monsters with $3.94 million.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone AU/NZ, jackass: best and last director Jeff Tremaine revealed the film almost never happened. While the team initially planned to mark the franchise’s 25th anniversary, a new feature wasn’t part of the plan.
It was widely accepted that 2022’s Jackass Forever would be the final outing for the famous MTV crew, with Johnny Knoxville believing only his days of enduring concussions had come to an end.
“…I think it was someone over on their end [Paramount] that suggested, why don’t you make a greatest hits movie?,” Tremaine said. “We thought that’s a kind of weird, interesting idea, and then we decided, yeah, let’s go get the gang back together and shoot some.”
Elsewhere in the top five, Supergirl, starring Australian Milly Alcock, slipped to fourth with $1.13 million, bringing its domestic total to $4.41 million. Despite arriving with one of the year’s biggest studio campaigns, the superhero film has struggled commercially. A source familiar with the film’s financials told Variety losses are expected to land between US$80 million and US$85 million, assuming worldwide ticket sales reach at least US$200 million.
Obsession rounded out the top five with $1.08 million in its eighth week, lifting its Australian total to an impressive $22.7 million.
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Further down the chart, Disclosure Day earned $577,000 to finish sixth, followed by Backrooms ($373,000), Dear You ($360,000), Michael ($225,000), and Scary Movie ($217,000).
According to Hoyts, the top 10 films accounted for 90% of the national weekend box office, with the top 20 titles combining for $16.35 million.
