'Transformers' beats 'Ice Age' at Aus BO

Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen has held off stiff competition from Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs to take the Australian box office crown.

The Shia LaBeouf-fronted robot sequel remains in first place for the second week running, beating the Fox animated movie's weekend haul by less than $500,000.

The Hangover holds strong at number three, while Sandra Bullock's The Proposal drops to four. Hannah Montana: The Movie rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, Audrey Tautou's fashion biopic Coco Before Chanel leaps a place to seven, and Terminator Salvation slides sharply to nine.

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

1. (1) Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen - $6,269,589
2. (-) Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - $5,878,128
3. (3) The Hangover - $2,068,892
4. (2) The Proposal - $2,037,487
5. (4) Hannah Montana: The Movie - $1,345,406
6. (5) Year One - $349,635
7. (8) Coco Before Chanel - $349,635
8. (7) Night At The Museum 2 - $275,614
9. (6) Terminator Salvation - $273,149
10. (9) Land Of The Lost - $167,989