By Simon de Bruyn
After winning the Camera d’Or at Cannes on the weekend, Samson and Delilah climbed a further $125,000 in the three days to Wednesday on 16 screens.
This is a marked rise over last week’s take of $84,000 over the same period last week, when the film played on three fewer screens, according to MPDAA figures.
Mary and Max took a further $17,500 over the three days and crossed the $1.3 million mark, while Shadows of the Past is up to $18,000 with further regional locations to be added in coming weeks.
My Year Without Sex opens on 25 screens nationwide this weekend.
| Film | Budget | Distributor | Opening w/e | WIR | Box Office |
| Mary and Max | $8m | Icon | $ 217,176 | 7 | $ 1,301,497 |
| Samson and Delilah | $1.6m | Para/Trans/Footprint | $ 199,163 | 3 | $ 952,275 |
| Love the Beast | Madman | $ 241,982 | 9 | $ 777,351 | |
| The Combination | $1.169m | AFS | $ 188,054 | 11 | $ 727,586 |
| Two Fists, One Heart | $8.5m | Disney | $ 96,999 | 2 | $ 292,810 |
| Beautiful | $2m | Kojo/Jump Street | $ 22,406 | 6 | $ 55,619 |
| Closed for Winter | $2m | Omnilab Media | $ 19,449 | 4 | $ 47,174 |
| My Year Without Sex | $3.8m | Para/Trans/Footprint | previews | N/A | $ 42,740 |
| Shadows of the Past | $ 820,000 | Summer Night Productions | $ 13,927 | 2 | $ 18,011 |
| Crush | $2m | Filmscope/Odin’s Eye | previews | N/A | $ 13,051 |
| The Chifleys of Busby St | Ronin | $ 3,760 | 1 | $ 9,525 | |
| Salvation | Hopscotch | $ 2,262 | 1 | $ 3,182 | |
| Prey | $4m | Damage Releasing | $ 1,089 | 1 | $ 1,089 |
WIR = weeks in release.
Sources: MPDAA and Inside Film