NZ box office report: Homegrown heroes #1 with Pike River

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

Box office updates thanks to Numero.

Emotional, inspiring, tragic and anger-inducing Aotearoa true story Pike River opens in top spot at the box office (read our interview with stars Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm).

Mother-daughter drama Regretting You is second, ahead of The Boss biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere and Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc.

Here are the top 10 films at the Aotearoa box office, Oct 30-Nov 5:

1. Pike River (Madman) $364,435 (new release)
2. Regretting You (Paramount) $172,746 (cume total $611,677)
3. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Walt Disney) $126,178 (cume total $483,850)
4. Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc (Sony) $95,690 (cume total $327,162)
5. Twilight Saga: Marathon (Studiocanal) $63,558 (re-release)
6. Bugonia (Universal) $62,693 (new release)
7. Good Fortune (Studiocanal) $54,039 (new release)
8. Black Phone 2 (Universal) $51,482 (cume total $318,097)
9. Diés Iraé (Reelstar Entertainment) $48,594 (new release)
10. A Paw Patrol Christmas (Paramount) $48,172 (new release)