Box Office Weekend: Annabelle: Creation Takes Top Spot

The latest installment of the Conjuring franchise (yes, such a franchise exists), Annabelle: Creation took the top spot of this week’s box office with $35 million. While director Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk pulled in another $11.4 million, bringing its domestic total to slightly over $150 million.

Finishing in a distant third place was the critically-detested animated feature The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature with an opening-week total of $8.9 million. Elsewhere, The Dark Tower fell to fourth place, earning $7.9 million (and a two-week total of $34.3 million) while the abysmal The Emoji Movie finished in fifth place with a weekend total of $6.6 million (and a three-week total of $63.6 million).

The little comedy that could, Girls Trip, finished the weekend with $6.5 million, which was good enough to not only land it in sixth place, but bring its four-week total to $97.2 million as it begins its crawl out of the top ten. Spider-Man: Homecoming continued to do steady business in the seventh spot, earning $6.1 million, bringing its six-week, domestic total to $306.5 million.

The Halle Berry-led thriller Kidnap took in $5.2 million which put it just ahead of the new offering from director Destin Daniel Cretton, The Glass Castle, which managed $4.9 million in its first weekend of wide release. Meanwhile, Atomic Blonde completes this week’s top ten, as the Charlize Theron-starring actioner took in $4.6 million to raise its three-week total to $42.8 million.

Things might get a bit better next week as two action comedies will hit the screen when Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson explore their uneasy working relationship in The Hitman’s Bodyguard and director Steven Soderbergh introduces us to Logan Lucky.

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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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