After becoming the first foreign language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars last Monday, Parasite has re-entered the top 10 at the Australian box office over the weekend.

In its 34th weekend, the Korean comedic thriller, directed by Bong Joon-ho (who also was awarded Best Director and Original Screenplay), received $749,072 from 100 screens – an increase of 378% from the previous week. The running total for the film now sits at $3.7m.

In its opening weekend, Sonic The Hedgehog flew to the top of the Australian box office, debuting to $3.9m from 365 screens.

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The film is based on Sega’s Sonic video game franchise and features the blue hedgehog as its central character. Jim Carey stars as the film’s villain Dr. Robotnik, Ben Schwartz voices the animated Sonic, and James Marsden plays Sonic’s friend Tom Wachowski. In the US, Sonic’s opening has set the record for the highest debut of a film based on a video game with $US57 million.

Sonic The Hedgehog topped last weekend’s winner, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which took $2.59m in its second turn at the box office from 316 screens. The film starring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn has reached a running total of $7.3m.

In its sixth weekend at the box office, World War I epic 1917 drew $1.2m sliding into third spot. It appeared on 310 screens over the weekend, amassing an Australian total of $20.6m.

Also debuting this week was the latest film interpretation of Jane Austen’s Emma. The film starring Anya Taylor-Joy as the titular character and Bill Nighy as her father, came in forth with just over $1m from 302 screens.

Supernatural horror film Fantasy Island and crime drama Richard Jewell also opened over the weekend, with the former taking $1m from 217 screens, and the latter receiving $593,418 from 252 screens.

Rounding out the top 10 was Midway, collecting $378,124 from 254 screens.