List of 2006 box office number-one films in Australia

This is a list of films which placed number-one at the box office in Australia during 2006. Amounts are in Australian dollars, which is the type of currency in Australia. 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 (for example, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties debuted at #13 and later peaked at #3), but is intended as an indication and a guide to what theatrically released films opened and when.

# Week ending Film Box office Openings
1 4 January 2006 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe $11,055,672 Chicken Little (#4), The Family Stone (#10)
2 11 January 2006 $6,201,264 Rumour Has It... (#3), Valiant (#10)
3 18 January 2006 $3,812,678 Nanny McPhee (#2), The Producers (#5)
4 25 January 2006 Memoirs of a Geisha $4,046,193 Underworld: Evolution (#2), Get Rich or Die Tryin' (#7)
5 1 February 2006 Big Momma's House 2 $2,667,816 Munich (#2), Brokeback Mountain (#4), Keeping Mum (#6)
6 8 February 2006 Walk the Line $2,988,087 North Country (#9), The Fog (#10)
7 15 February 2006 $2,497,720 Jarhead (#2), Just Friends (#3), Casanova (#9)
8 22 February 2006 Date Movie $2,287,969 Syriana (#3), Lord of War (#7), Goal! (#9)
9 1 March 2006 Walk the Line $1,533,100 Hostel (#3), Derailed (#6), Capote (#10), Imagine Me & You (#13)
10 8 March 2006 Firewall $1,749,356 Match Point (#4), Kinky Boots (#8), Rent (#19)
11 15 March 2006 The Pink Panther $1,863,559 A History of Violence (#4), The Shaggy Dog (#7), Zathura: A Space Adventure (#13), Hustle & Flow (#14), Dreamer (#18)
12 22 March 2006 When a Stranger Calls $1,524,237 Æon Flux (#2), Tristan & Isolde (#8), Yours, Mine and Ours (#10), The Long Weekend (#15)
13 29 March 2006 $956,675 Cry_Wolf (#7), The Weather Man (#13)
14 5 April 2006 Inside Man $2,549,495 V for Vendetta (#2), Basic Instinct 2 (#6), March of the Penguins (#8)
15 12 April 2006 Ice Age 2: The Meltdown $7,328,412 She's the Man (#2), The World's Fastest Indian (#4)
16 19 April 2006 $7,593,260 Scary Movie 4 (#2), Failure to Launch (#3), Water (#12), The Squid and the Whale (#14), Tsotsi (#16), How Much Do You Love Me? (#17)
17 26 April 2006 $5,125,407 Eight Below (#3), Kokoda (#8), The Hills Have Eyes (#11)
18 3 May 2006 $2,349,829 Final Destination 3 (#3), American Dreamz (#5), The Ringer (#10), The White Countess (#17)
19 10 May 2006 Mission: Impossible III $4,923,176 Hidden (#13), Dave Chappelle's Block Party (#15), The New World (#20)
20 17 May 2006 $2,958,204 The Benchwarmers (#2), Two for the Money (#7), Where the Truth Lies (#17), On a Clear Day (#20)
21 24 May 2006 The Da Vinci Code $11,450,544 Slither (#5)
22 31 May 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand $8,332,425 Take the Lead (#3), Candy (#6), Separate Lies (#7), Fanaa (#9), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (#10), Last Holiday (#12), Warren Miller's Higher Ground (#17)
23 7 June 2006 $3,822,006 Poseidon (#3), RV: Runaway Vacation (#5), The Omen (#6)
24 14 June 2006 Cars $6,315,434 The Break-Up (#2), The Caterpillar Wish (#12), Colour Me Kubrick (#15)
25 21 June 2006 The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift $4,074,273 Stick It (#6), Just My Luck (#10), Oliver Twist (#17)
26 28 June 2006 Click $5,933,014 Over the Hedge (#2), Wah-Wah (#9), Krrish (#17)
27 5 July 2006 Superman Returns $7,119,955 Ten Canoes (#9), Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (#15)
28 12 July 2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest $15,866,404 River Queen (#14)
29 19 July 2006 $9,185,006 Little Man (#2), Sione's Wedding (#11), Beyond the Sea (#13), Hard Candy (#15)
30 26 July 2006 $4,646,384 My Super Ex-Girlfriend (#2), Jindabyne (#3), 16 Blocks (#7), The White Masai (#14)
31 2 August 2006 You, Me and Dupree $3,282,179 The Lake House (#3), The Libertine (#16)
32 9 August 2006 $2,277,847 Hoodwinked (#3), The Sentinel (#5), Confetti (#8), Footy Legends (#9), 49 Up (#20)
33 16 August 2006 Miami Vice $3,265,994 Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (#8), Brick (#14)
34 23 August 2006 $1,624,571 United 93 (#5), Kenny (#7), Curious George (#9), 2:37 (#11), Chaos (#13)
35 30 August 2006 Snakes on a Plane $1,344,096 Fearless (#2), Thank You for Smoking (#6), Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (#17)
36 6 September 2006 Silent Hill $1,000,109 Clerks II (#5), Friends with Money (#7), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (#16), 48 Shades (#18), Man About Town (#19)
37 13 September 2006 John Tucker Must Die $1,338,434 Lady in the Water (#2), DOA: Dead or Alive (#4), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (#13), Stormbreaker (#17)
38 20 September 2006 Monster House $1,926,092 Nacho Libre (#2), An Inconvenient Truth (#4), Material Girls (#6), The Wild (#13), The Ant Bully (#18)
39 27 September 2006 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby $2,539,063 Barnyard (#5), The Wind That Shakes the Barley (#14)
40 4 October 2006 The Devil Wears Prada $5,449,620 Step Up (#2), Beerfest (#15), Aquamarine (#17)
41 11 October 2006 $3,733,016 World Trade Center (#5), A Prairie Home Companion (#15)
42 18 October 2006 The Departed $3,372,431 Little Miss Sunshine (#3), The Covenant (#8), Irresistible (#16)
43 25 October 2006 $2,398,491 BoyTown (#3), Children of Men (#4), Crank (#6), Don (#15)
44 1 November 2006 $1,801,538 The Grudge 2 (#2), Trust the Man (#10), Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (#13), Suburban Mayhem (#14), Fast Food Nation (#15), The Nightmare Before Christmas 3D (#16)
45 8 November 2006 Saw III $3,395,863 Flags of Our Fathers (#3), God on My Side (#19)
46 15 November 2006 Jackass Number Two $3,026,280 A Good Year (#3), The Wrong Man (#5), Shortbus (#17)
47 22 November 2006 The Prestige $2,055,078 The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (#3), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (#10)
48 29 November 2006 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan $6,841,840 Deck the Halls (#8), The Descent (#9), Catch a Fire (#10), Dhoom 2 (#12), The Black Dahlia (#13)
49 6 December 2006 $4,087,398 Open Season (#2), The Guardian (#4), Unaccompanied Minors (#8), The Nativity Story (#15), A Scanner Darkly (#18)
50 13 December 2006 Casino Royale $9,375,310 Charlotte's Web (#3)
51 20 December 2006 $5,474,998 Eragon (#2)
52 27 December 2006 Happy Feet $4,481,329 Night at the Museum (#3), Flushed Away (#4), The Holiday (#6), The Queen (#9), Babel (#12), Volver (#13), Marie Antoinette (#14), The Valet (#16)

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