Oasis have carried their blockbuster reunion from stadiums to cinemas, with the band’s new documentary cracking the Australian box office top five on debut.
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, which follows the Britpop giants’ hugely anticipated 2025 reunion tour, debuted at No. 5 locally over the weekend (Thursday, September 10th – Sunday, September 13th), pulling in $481,000.
Directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern – along with curiously credited creator/writer Steven Knight – delivered “a momentous, emotionally charged concert documentary that doesn’t contain revelations but showcases exactly why they mean so much to so many”, Rolling Stone‘s review reads. “Those who’ve experienced it will find themselves happy, positive and with a newly energised swagger after seeing it, just like one feels after listening to the best Oasis songs.”
The result put the music documentary among a top five otherwise dominated by major Hollywood releases, including Practical Magic 2, The Odyssey, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie.
Practical Magic 2, starring Australia’s own Nicole Kidman, debuted at No. 1. Including advance screenings, the long-awaited sequel conjured up $2.99 million locally, ending the six-week reign of Spider-Man at the top of the chart.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey held onto second place in its ninth weekend, adding another $1.30 million to its blockbuster run. The epic has now crossed the $65 million mark at the Australian box office and has become Universal Pictures’ highest-grossing film in its 114-year history.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day slipped to third, taking another $1.24 million. The Tom Holland and Zendaya-led superhero film has now amassed $85.6 million locally.
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Another new release, PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie, opened in fourth place with $1.01 million. Advance screenings pushed its cumulative total to $1.67 million.
Runner opened at No. 6 with $468,000 including advance screenings, while Hope followed in seventh place with $430,000. Last week’s highest new entry, Hindi-language title Mirzapur: The Movie, fell from third to eighth place, adding another $290,000 and taking its Australian total to $1.08 million.
Insidious: Out of the Further landed at No. 9 with $265,000, bringing its local haul to $3.33 million. Rounding out the top 10 was thriller Fall 2: Deadpoint, which added $262,000 for a cumulative Australian box office of $850,000.
According to Hoyts, the top 10 films accounted for 82% of the total national gross box office for the weekend.
From Variety Australia
