This is a list of films which placed number-one at the box office in Australia during 2005. Amounts are in Australian dollars. Also included are the positions at the box office other films opened at. Quite a number of these are films from the previous year due to normal Australian film distribution delays. The number a film opens at does not necessarily denote its highest placement at the box office, but is intended as an indication and a guide to what theatrically released films opened and when.
Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Week ending Film Box office Openings 1 Meet the Fockers $8,993,413 Finding Neverland (#4), Raise Your Voice (#8) 2 $5,546,235 The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (#3), Racing Stripes (#4), Ladder 49 (#5), Deck Dogz (#15) 3 $3,796,369 Elektra (#3), After the Sunset (#8), Kinsey (#15) 4 $2,756,156 Alexander (#2), Alfie (#7) 5 Closer $2,196,876 Ray (#3), Sideways (#7) 6 $1,437,301 Million Dollar Baby (#2), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (#6), Seed of Chucky (#9) 7 The Aviator $2,582,876 Hide and Seek (#2), Cellular (#7), Vera Drake (#17) 8 $1,869,409 Bride and Prejudice (#2), Spanglish (#4), House of Flying Daggers (#5) 9 Constantine $3,759,269 Hotel Rwanda (#12), My House in Umbria (#13) 10 Hitch $4,627,642 The Door in the Floor (#14), Luther (#19) 11 $3,130,822 Be Cool (#2), Are We There Yet? (#4), Friday Night Lights (#8), Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (#12), Riding Giants (#20) 12 $2,342,005 Hating Alison Ashley (#4), Being Julia (#8), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (#10) 13 Robots $4,211,917 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (#2), The Ring Two (#3), The Pacifier (#5), Ladies in Lavender (#9), Bad Education (#15), Maria Full of Grace (#19), Son of the Mask (#20) 14 $2,798,977 Assault on Precinct 13 (#6) 15 The Pacifier $2,720,012 Sahara (#3), Guess Who (#4) 16 $2,666,529 The Interpreter (#3), The Amityville Horror (#4), Hostage (#7) 17 The Interpreter $1,915,976 In Good Company (#3), White Noise (#7), The Extra (#10), Downfall (#12), Fat Albert (#13), Three Dollars (#14) 18 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy $3,496,717 xXx2: The Next Level (#2), Birth (#13) 19 Kingdom of Heaven $3,464,979 You and Your Stupid Mate (#8) 20 $2,402,289 The Upside of Anger (#3), Boogeyman (#15) 21 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith † $16,217,383 22 $7,915,053 Coach Carter (#2), The Wedding Date (#3), Melinda and Melinda (#13), We Don't Live Here Anymore (#15), 2046 (#18), Bunty Aur Babli (#20) 23 $4,478,452 The Longest Yard (#2), A Lot Like Love (#3), The Machinist (#14) 24 Mr. & Mrs. Smith $8,977,947 The Assassination of Richard Nixon (#13), Peaches (#14) 25 Madagascar $6,250,327 Batman Begins (#2), Pooh's Heffalump Movie (#15) 26 $5,726,462 Herbie: Fully Loaded (#4), A Good Woman (#8), The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (#9), Paheli (#15) 27 War of the Worlds $9,201,701 Oyster Farmer (#11), My Summer of Love (#12), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (#19) 28 Fantastic Four $5,433,418 Bewitched (#2), The Yes Men (#17) 29 $2,886,431 Sin City (#2), House of Wax (#7), Because of Winn-Dixie (#17) 30 Monster-in-Law $3,220,104 Flight of the Phoenix (#6) 31 The Island $2,497,846 Layer Cake (#8), Me and My Sister (#17) 32 $1,703,774 Land of the Dead (#3), Code 46 (#18) 33 Wedding Crashers $5,760,765 Kicking & Screaming (#4), Kung Fu Hustle (#5), Millions (#12), The Jacket (#13), Mangal Pandey: The Rising (#14) 34 $3,829,155 The Skeleton Key (#2), Unleashed (#3), Look Both Ways (#7), Mysterious Skin (#15), Turtles Can Fly (#18) 35 $2,723,885 Lords of Dogtown (#8) 36 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $8,785,146 Red Eye (#3), P.S. (#10), No Entry (#16) 37 $5,636,804 Stealth (#2), The Perfect Catch (#6), Little Fish (#7), Sky High (#8), The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (#9), Salaam Namaste (#13) 38 The Dukes of Hazzard $4,358,774 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (#3), The Perfect Man (#10), Murderball (#16) 39 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory $2,911,168 Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (#2), Howl's Moving Castle (#12) 40 Cinderella Man $2,061,706 Serenity (#7), Transporter 2 (#8), Mad Hot Ballroom (#13), The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (#17) 41 The 40-Year-Old Virgin $2,877,061 Must Love Dogs (#3), The Proposition (#11) 42 In Her Shoes $2,296,362 Night Watch (#6), The Devil's Rejects (#17), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (#18) 43 Pride & Prejudice $2,092,274 Into the Blue (#4), Dark Water (#8) 44 Doom $1,909,552 The Exorcism of Emily Rose (#3), Me and You and Everyone We Know (#17) 45 Wolf Creek $1,811,448 Elizabethtown (#2), Stay (#9), Gallipoli (#19) 46 Flightplan $2,943,589 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (#5), Four Brothers (#7) 47 Saw II $2,401,084 Corpse Bride (#3), Prime (#4), The Constant Gardener (#5), Bee Season (#19) 48 The Brothers Grimm $1,570,397 The Cave (#9), Thumbsucker (#18) 49 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $15,752,194 Domino (#4), Waiting... (#9), Shopgirl (#12) 50 $7,200,602 King Kong (#2), Bad News Bears (#9) 51 King Kong $7,446,868 Good Night, and Good Luck (#7), Joyeux Noël (#17) 52 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $8,754,491 Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (#4), Fun with Dick and Jane (#5), Just Like Heaven (#6), The Legend of Zorro (#7), Mrs Henderson Presents (#8), Broken Flowers (#9), Russian Dolls (#18)
References
Urban Cinefile – Box Office
See also List of Australian films – Australian films by year 2005 in film