Box Office Weekend: Dunkirk Beats the Emojis

With an estimated $28.1 million, Dunkirk ruled over the weekend box office for the second straight week. Director Christopher Nolan’s latest offering has now grossed over $100 million domestically while adding another $131 million from overseas business in just two weeks.

Meanwhile, Sony’s new animated feature, The Emoji Movie, managed to slide into second place bringing in $25.7 million over the weekend despite garnering mostly scathing reviews from critics. Whether it can keep up this pace remains to be seen, but don’t bet the money emoji on it.

Girls Trip finished in third place with a respectable $20 million. The comedy has clearly struck a chord with audiences and looks to enjoy a lengthy (and profitable) stay in theaters for some time. In a disappointing fourth-place is the Charlize Theron-led action film Atomic Blonde which brought in $18.6 million in its first week of release. Spider-Man: Homecoming rounds out the top five by adding another $13.5 million to its now four-week total of $278.4 million.

War for the Planet of the Apes took sixth place with $10.4 million to bring its three-week total to $118.7 million as it begins its decline down the top ten. Despicable Me 3, however, continues to do solidly, adding another $7.7 million to raise its five-week take to $230.4 million, which lands it squarely in seventh place this week. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets took in another $6.8 million to lift its two-week total to $30.6 million as it fell to eighth place and prepare to leave the domestic top ten sooner than it probably expected to. Baby Driver fell two spots to ninth but still brought in $4.1 million to boost its five-week domestic take to $92 million. Finally, Wonder Woman added $3.5 million to raise its domestic total to $395.4 million as it prepares to bid farewell to the top ten soon.

Next week brings the latest Stephen King adaption, The Dark Tower, starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba to theaters as well as Kathryn Bigelow’s powerful new film, Detroit.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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