List of 2021 box office number-one films in Australia explained

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the box office in Australia during 2021.[1]

Weekend end dateFilmWeekend
gross
Top 20 openings
1 Wonder Woman 1984 The Dry (#3), Monster Hunter (#4), Dragon Rider (#6), Another Round (#14)
2 The Dry Promising Young Woman (#5), Buddy Games (#8), Dreambuilders (#10), Maya the Bee 3: The Golden Orb (#11), Summerland (#12), Warm Hug (#15), Krack (#19)
3 Master (#6), Shadow in the Cloud (#8), Music (#9), Ammonite (#14), My Salinger Year (#17), Red (#18)
4 Penguin Bloom The Marksman (#4)
5 The Dry High Ground (#5), (#9), Pixie (#13)
6 Promising Young Woman The Nest (#2)
7 A Writer's Odyssey
8 The Little Things (#3)
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10 Raya and the Last Dragon
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12 Chaos Walking (#2), Nomadland (#3), Crisis (#4), Hi, Mom (#6), French Exit (#8), (#9), Minari (#10), Jathi Ratnalu (#12), Judas and the Black Messiah (#15), Mumbai Saga (#16), Girls Can't Surf (#18), Boss Level (#19), Cosmic Sin (#20)
13 Godzilla vs. Kong (#2), The Father (#8), Rang De (#15), Mick Fleetwood & Friends celebrate the music of Peter Green (#16), The Last Vermeer (#18)
14 Nobody (#3), Tom & Jerry (#4), The Courier (#5), Sulthan (#11), One (#19), Wild Dog (#20)
15 Voyagers (#8), Vakeel Saab (#9), Ascendant (#10), Karnan (#12), My Donkey, My Lover & I (#13)
16 The Unholy (#5), Supernova (#9), Nayattu (#17)
17 Mortal Kombat Six Minutes to Midnight (#5), Every Breath You Take (#11), The United States vs. Billie Holiday (#15)
18 Raya and the Last Dragon
19 Wrath of Man June Again (#3), Fatale (#6), Locked Down (#9), Cliff Walkers (#14), My Love (#17), De Gaulle (#18)
20 Those Who Wish Me Dead Spiral (#3), Radhe (#7), Finding You (#10), (#20)
21 Wrath of Man Death of a Ladies' Man (#14), Mama Weed (#18), Songbird (#20)
22 A Quiet Place Part II Cruella (#2), My Name is Gulpilil (#12)
23 Breaking News in Yuba County (#9), Minamata (#11), Love Will Tear Us Apart (#20)
24 Dream Horse (#4), Spirit Untamed (#5), Bon Jovi From Encore Nights (#9), Heroic Losers (#14)
25 F9 Playing with Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story (#10), From the Vine (#11), The Mole Agent (#13)
26 Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (#2), In the Heights (#3), Buckley's Chance (#9), Monster Zone (#10), Moonbound (#11)
27 (#6), Herself (#14), Perfumes (#16), Werewolves Within (#20)
28 Black Widow Leonardo: The Works (#18)
29 Nine Days (#9), (#20)
30 Old (#3), Rosa's Wedding (#12)
31 Jungle Cruise The Misfits (#9), Shiva Baby (#16)
32 The Suicide Squad Tunka Tunka (#6), The Rose Maker (#8), (#10)
33 Free Guy (#2), The Ice Road (#5), Puaada (#8)
34 Free Guy Respect (#3), The Night House (#5), Reminiscence (#7), Raging Fire (#10), The Cave (#14)
35 Don't Breathe 2 (#4), Candyman (#5), Annette (#15)
36 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Eiffel (#10), Summer of Soul (#12)
37 Respect (#2), Ride the Eagle (#11), Love in Bright Landscapes (#15), Yaar Anmulle Returns (#20)
38 (#3), (#6), Pig (#12), Die in a Gunfight (#14), The Killing of Two Lovers (#17), Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (#18), Thana Sadar (#20)
39 Joe Bell (#7), Time Is Up (#10), Oasis Knebworth 1996 (#11), Qismat 2 (#12), Flashback (#15), Love Story (#16)
40 Chal Mera Putt 3 (#6), Nitram (#10), Riders of Justice (#19)
41 My Country, My Parents (#11), Doctor (#13), Love Is Love Is Love (#14), A Fire Inside (#18)
42 Honsla Rakh (#3), Most Eligible Bachelor (#17)
43 The Last Duel (#2), Malignant (#3), Yes I am Student (#13), Love You Like That (#15), (#18)
44 Ron's Gone Wrong (#3), Antlers (#4)
45 Eternals Sooryavanshi (#5), The Many Saints of Newark (#6), Annaatthe (#7), Paani Ch Madhaani (#9)
46 No Time to Die Anita (#6)
47 Last Night in Soho (#3), Kurup (#7), Warning (#8), Bunty Aur Babli 2 (#10), Zola (#16), Fuffad Ji (#17), Railway Heroes (#18), Songs for While I'm Away (#19)
48 A Boy Called Christmas (#5), (#8), Maanaadu (#10), Cliff Richard: The Great 80 Tour (#11), Best Sellers (#12), Cry Macho (#15), Titane (#17), Satyameva Jayate 2 (#18)
49 Dune Encanto (#4), André Rieu: Christmas with André (#6), Akhanda (#8), (#10), The Battle at Lake Changjin (#11), Delicious (#13), The Lost Leonardo (#17), Tadap (#20)
50 The French Dispatch (#5), (#7), Dear Evan Hansen (#8), Teeja Punjab (#11), Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (#12), Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (#13), Monsta X: The Dreaming (#16)
51 (#6), Shava Ni Girdhari Lal (#17)
52 The Matrix Resurrections (#2), Sing 2 (#3), 83 (#4), West Side Story (#8), Shyam Singha Roy (#13), Licorice Pizza (#14), Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker (#19)

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2021[2]
RankTitleDistributor Domestic gross
1 $37,912,478
2 Godzilla vs. Kong $21,069,498
3 F9 $15,822,678
4 Sony $15,645,480
5 The Dry $15,016,162
6 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings $12,522,238
7 Eternals $10,877,919
8 Wonder Woman 1984 Warner Bros. $10,746,283
9 Universal $10,679,106
10 Sony $10,343,071

See also

Notes and References

  1. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/by-year/2021/?area=AU Australian Box Office Weekends For 2021
  2. Web site: 2021 Australian Yearly Box Office Results . Box Office Mojo.