This is a list of films which have placed number one at the box office in Australia during 2016. All amounts are in Australian dollars.
Number-one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Week ending Film Totalweekgross Openings 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $14,033,584 Point Break (#5), Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (#7), Sherlock: "The Abominable Bride" (#9), Mr. Six (#14) 2 $7,138,111 The Revenant (#2), Sisters (#3), Wazir (#17), The Himalayas (#20) 3 The Revenant $4,947,295 Goosebumps (#2), The 5th Wave (#4), The Big Short (#7), Carol (#11), Detective Chinatown (#18) 4 The Hateful Eight $3,498,584 The Danish Girl (#10), Ip Man 3 (#13), Airlift (#15), Lazer Team (#18) 5 Dirty Grandpa $3,031,867 Spotlight (#5), Room (#15), Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (#18), Looking for Grace (#20) 6 $1,951,829 The Choice (#7), Steve Jobs (#13), From Vegas to Macau III (#17), The Monkey King 2 (#18), The Importance of Being Earnest (#19) 7 Deadpool $19,193,411 Zoolander 2 (#2), Brooklyn (#3) 8 $9,971,537 How to Be Single (#2), Ride Along 2 (#3), The Mermaid (#6), Three Wise Cousins (#8), Concussion (#10), 45 Years (#13), Risen (#15), Trumbo (#16), Neerja (#17) 9 $5,505,107 Hail, Caesar! (#3), Gods of Egypt (#4), 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (#6), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (#13), A Violent Prosecutor (#18) 10 The Lady in the Van $3,345,513 Triple 9 (#6), The Finest Hours (#12), Met Opera: Les pêcheurs de perles (#19), The Boy and the Beast (#20) 11 $2,523,713 Grimsby (#3), 10 Cloverfield Lane (#3), Love Punjab (#6), Ardaas (#12) 12 Zootopia $4,947,389 London Has Fallen (#2), Miracles from Heaven (#13), Kapoor & Sons (#14), The Witch (#15) 13 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice $18,132,666 My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (#2), Kung Fu Panda 3 (#4), Eye in the Sky (#9), Ambarsariya (#12), A Bigger Splash (#14) 14 $6,164,183 Sherpa (#12), Chongqing Hot Pot (#16), Ki & Ka (#17), Met Opera: Turandot (#19) 15 Zootopia $4,583,537 The Huntsman: Winter's War (#3), Rams (#12), Where to Invade Next (#20) 16 The Jungle Book $9,274,573 The Boss (#3), The Divergent Series: Allegiant (#4), Fan (#9), Theri (#11), Wide Open Sky (#19) 17 $8,261,268 Eddie the Eagle (#2), Midnight Special (#11), Marguerite (#14), Pawno (#20) 18 Captain America: Civil War $17,372,748 Mother's Day (#4), Finding Mr. Right 2 (#8), A Month of Sundays (#10), God's Not Dead 2 (#14), Baaghi: Rebels in Love (#16) 19 $7,546,199 Bad Neighbours 2 (#2), Florence Foster Jenkins (#5), The Man Who Knew Infinity (#7), 24 (#9), Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (#10), Mia Madre (#17), Only Yesterday (#20) 20 $4,667,109 The Angry Birds Movie (#2), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (#5), Bastille Day (#9), The Boy (#11), The First Monday in May (#12), National Theatre Live: Hangmen (#16), Azhar (#17) 21 X-Men: Apocalypse $7,979,015 The Meddler (#12), Kaptaan (#7), Kiss Rocks Vegas (#19) 22 $3,650,862 Alice Through the Looking Glass (#2), The Nice Guys (#3), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (#4), Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse (#18). Saadey CM Saab (#20) 23 Now You See Me 2 $3,705,172 Money Monster (#2), Housefull 3 (#9), Queen of the Desert (#13), God Willing (#14), Met Opera: Madama Butterfly (#16) 24 The Conjuring 2 $5,010,584 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (#2), The Wailing (#13) 25 Finding Dory † $13,178,708 Warcraft (#2), Me Before You (#3), Udta Punjab (#12), St. Peter's and the Papal Basilicas of Rome (#16), Gentleman (#18) 26 $11,789,874 Independence Day: Resurgence (#2), Sardaar Ji 2 (#11), Mustang (#12), Everybody Wants Some!! (#17), Three (#18) 27 $10,328,936 Central Intelligence (#2), The BFG (#3), Ice Age: Collision Course (#4), Sultan (#13), The Wait (#16), Met Opera: Roberto Devereux (#19) 28 $7,368,649 The Legend of Tarzan (#2), Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (#6), Cold War 2 (#12), Goldstone (#13), Maggie's Plan (#17) 29 Ghostbusters $5,977,276 Our Kind of Traitor (#11), Sing Street (#13), So Young 2: Never Gone (#20) 30 Star Trek Beyond $5,102,368 Lights Out (#4), Love & Friendship (#9), Batman: The Killing Joke (#12) 31 Jason Bourne $9,953,610 André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert (#4), Bambukat (#12), Dishoom (#17), Embrace of the Serpent (#18), League of Gods (#19) 32 Suicide Squad $17,208,761 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (#3), Embrace (#18), Met Opera: Elektra (#19) 33 $7,345,069 Bad Moms (#2), Sausage Party (#3), Rustom (#8), Train to Busan (#9), Line Walker (#11), Mohenjo Daro (#16), Truman (#17) 34 $3,938,758 The Shallows (#4), War Dogs (#5), Kubo and the Two Strings (#8), Time Raiders (#13), High-Rise (#19) 35 Bad Moms $2,677,482 Ben-Hur (#4), David Brent: Life on the Road (#10), Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (#11), Free State of Jones (#12), The Tunnel (#16) 36 The Secret Life of Pets $1,932,364 Don't Breathe (#2), Nerve (#5), Blood Father (#11), Sunset Song (#17) 37 $5,777,431 Sully (#2), Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie (#10), One More Time with Feeling (#11), Captain Fantastic (#14), Baar Baar Dekho (#17), Iru Mugan (#19) 38 $6,111,105 Bridget Jones's Baby (#2), Pete's Dragon (#4), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (#5), Blair Witch (#6), Spin Out (#11), The Fourth Phase (#16), S Storm (#17), Pink (#19) 39 $6,624,582 Storks (#3), Snowden (#7), A Chinese Odyssey Part Three (#18) 40 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children $5,906,747 The Magnificent Seven (#3), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (#10), Nikka Zaildar (#12), I Belonged to You (#15), L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (#19) 41 The Girl on the Train $5,330,214 Deepwater Horizon (#3), Operation Mekong (#10), Hillsong: Let Hope Rise (#11), Remo (#14), National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (#18), Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (#19) 42 $3,522,930 Inferno (#2), Masterminds (#6), Where Am I Going? (#11), Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary (#13), Shin Godzilla (#15), Julieta (#17) 43 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back $3,328,031 Keeping Up with the Joneses (#3), Ouija: Origin of Evil (#5), Café Society (#10) 44 Doctor Strange $8,573,397 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (#7), Hell or High Water (#8), Shivaay (#15), Robinson Crusoe (#16), Luck Key (#17) 45 $4,859,104 Hacksaw Ridge (#2), The Accountant (#3), The Light Between Oceans (#5), Mr. Donkey (#19), Met Opera: Tristan & Isolde (#20) 46 $3,389,479 Arrival (#2), Nocturnal Animals (#5), Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur (#10), Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (#14), Death Note: Light Up the New World (#18), Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada (#19) 47 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $12,638,687 Force 2 (#12), War on Everyone (#18), I, Daniel Blake (#19) 48 $7,284,420 The Founder (#2), André Rieu: Christmas with André (#4), Bad Santa 2 (#7), Your Name (#9), Dear Zindagi (#11), Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (#15), The Fencer (#16), Australian Made: 30th Anniversary (#17), Sky on Fire (#20) 49 $4,531,946 Trolls (#2), Underworld: Blood Wars (#3), Queen of Katwe (#12), Up for Love (#19), Kahaani 2 (#20) 50 Trolls $3,637,334 Office Christmas Party (#3), Befikre (#12), My Annoying Brother (#18), Sword Master (#20) 51 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story $20,369,584 The Wasted Times (#14) 52 $11,298,586 Moana (#2), Sing (#3), Why Him? (#4), Allied (#5), La La Land (#6), Dangal (#8), Red Dog: True Blue (#9), A United Kingdom (#12), Doctor Who: "The Return of Doctor Mysterio" (#14), Rosalie Blum (#16), Paterson (#19)
Highest-grossing films + Highest-grossing films of 2016 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Finding Dory Disney $36,162,796 2 Deadpool Fox $33,314,499 3 Rogue One Disney $28,329,610 4 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $26,940,069 5 Suicide Squad Warner Bros. $26,126,519 6 Captain America: Civil War Disney $25,200,229 7 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Warner Bros. $22,517,365 8 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $22,474,347 9 The Secret Life of Pets Universal $22,474,347 10 Zootopia Disney $21,365,901
See also List of Australian films - Australian films by year 2016 in film
References
Urban Cinefile - Box Office