Captain Phillips has topped the Australian box office.
The Tom Hanks-starring drama knocked the science fiction film Gravity out of the number one spot by taking in $2.2m over the weekend.
Hanks recently revealed that working on the pirate-themed Captain Phillips made him feel "claustrophobic" because the movie was filmed in a very confined space.
"I'm not a particularly claustrophobic person, but it was a very small space. There was no other way to do it," Hanks explained. "We built an exact replica [of a ship] and put it on a gimbal, and that's where we shot. Environmentally, quite frankly it does an awful lot of work for you."
Gravity continued its successful run at the box office by finishing in second place with $1.9m.
The rest of the top five was filled out by About Time, Prisoners and 2 Guns.
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The box office chart for the weekend of October 24 to October 27 (all figures are in Australian dollars):
1. (-) Captain Phillips - $2,166,434
2. (1) Gravity - $1,920,909
3. (2) About Time - $1,429,837
4. (3) Prisoners - $791,258
5. (4) 2 Guns - $631,147
6. (5) Grown Ups 2 - $374,885
7. (6) Rush - $295,284
8. (9) Turbo - $194,785
9. (7) The Family - $171,388
10. (10) Blue Jasmine - $156,869
Watch a trailer for Gravity below:
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