The new film from the director of Boy, Eagle Vs Shark and What We Do In The Shadows, Taika Waititi unleashes Hunt For The Wilderpeople after rave reviews at Sundance 2016.
It's expected that Hunt for the Wilderpeople will overhaul Boy as the all-time New Zealand box office champ any day now.
Taika Waititi's runaway hit movie had posted a gross of $9,094,958 after last weekend, not far off that of his earlier success, Boy, which had cinema takings of $9,237,976in 2010.
With the opening of Captain America: Civil War sucking more than $2 million out of the NZ box office, Wilderpeople's weekend take suffered its first significant slump since its its opening with with a near 50 per cent reduction and a gross of $498,347.
Still, Waititi's latest has taken only six weeks to nearly match Boy's chart-topping figure, reached after a couple of months.
Captain America: Civil War was the second biggest opening at the NZ box office after the $2.4 million posted by Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which has virtually finished its local cinematic run with a gross of $4.8 million.
