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BO Report: Bad guys pipped by Bad Moms as Ben Hur, David Brent debut meekly

Bad Moms.

After three weeks in release, Bad Moms has edged ahead of Suicide Squad to win the weekend at the local box office.

The Roadshow release dropped a mere 19 percent to ring up close to $2 million on 272 screens, bringing its cume to over $10.5 million.

Suicide Squad dropped 38 percent after four weeks, taking $1.9 million off 281 screens to bring its total gross to $30.4 million.

Sony's adults-only animation Sausage Party was next best, dropping 30 percent to jot up $1.2 million from 214 locations and brings its grand total to around $7 million.

Paramount's Ben Hur debuted in fourth, pulling in $961,938 off 231 screens, narrowly beating out second-week holdover The Shallows, which dropped 43 percent over the weekend to bring in $893,213. The Blake Lively shark thriller is now sitting on $2.9 million overall. 

Universal's Jason Bourne is still on 216 screens and dropped 29 percent in its fifth week to bring its cume close to $19.6 million. Just below it is WB's War Dogs, starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, which dropped 39 percent and has jotted up $2.7 million in two weeks.

Uni's acclaimed animated feature Kubo and The Two Strings has made close to $1.3 million in the same number of weeks, dropping only 30 percent over the weekend, while Ab Fab: The Movie has totalled $7.8 million after four weeks.

eOne's David Brent movie debuted with a lukewarm $376,972 from 219 screens. That still beat StudioCanal's Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, which debuted on 103 screens and rang up $127,522.

Among Aussie titles, Taryn Brumfitt's body-image documentary Embrace has made $164,941 after four weeks and is still on 23 screens, Goldstone has made $719,307 after eight weeks and is still on 35 screens, while Abe Forsythe's Down Under has notched up $138,274 after three weeks and is still on 13 screens.

  1. This weekend marked the opening weekend for Red Billabong, opening on 9 screens. Why are they not mentioned?

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