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'Monsters' roars to Aussie BO lead

Published Wednesday, Apr 8 2009, 17:26 BST | By Simon Reynolds
'Monsters' roars to Aussie BO lead
Monsters Vs. Aliens has landed in the top spot at the Australian box office.

DreamWorks's latest animated adventure, featuring the voices of Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland, racks up a $2.7 million opening weekend to knock Nicolas Cage's Knowing from the chart summit.

This week also sees new entries from comedy The Pink Panther 2 (number four), fantasy Inkheart (number seven) and family adventure Race To Witch Mountain (number ten).

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

1. (-) Monsters Vs. Aliens - $3,875,854
2. (1) Knowing - $1,368,894
3. (3) Confessions Of A Shopaholic - $703,709
4. (-) The Pink Panther 2 - $668,416
5. (2) Paul Blart: Mall Cop - $656,595
6. (4) Duplicity - $645,529
7. (-) Inkheart - $445,328
8. (5) The Uninvited - $345,504
9. (6) Watchmen - $273,835
10. (-) Race To Witch Mountain - $273,671

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