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'Knowing' lands at Aus BO top spot

Published Wednesday, Apr 1 2009, 19:32 BST | By Simon Reynolds
'Knowing' lands at Aus BO top spot
Knowing has opened at the top of the Australian box office on its first weekend on release.

The Nicolas Cage disaster movie knocks Confessions Of A Shopaholic from the chart summit, taking in more than $2 million on its debut weekend.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop maintains its place at number two, Duplicity slips to four and new entry The Uninvited lands at five.

Jessica Biel's Easy Virtue is the only chart climber, moving up a place to number nine.

The box office top ten in full (figures in Australian dollars):

1. (-) Knowing - $2,035,276
2. (2) Paul Blart: Mall Cop - $2,035,276
3. (1) Confessions Of A Shopaholic - $2,035,276
4. (3) Duplicity - $886,034
5. (-) The Uninvited - $483,714
6. (4) Watchmen - $470,302
7. (5) Slumdog Millionaire - $330,630
8. (6) Gran Torino - $276,221
9. (10) Easy Virtue - $260,014
10. (9) He's Just Not That Into You - $185,546

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