Box Office Weekend: Dunkirk Claims Box Office

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk took the weekend box office this weekend, earning over $50 million. Another new release, Girls Trip, finished in second with $30.4 million. This week’s other new release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets only managed to pull in $17 million, which relegated it to fifth place.

The $50 million opening for Dunkirk, more than likely foretells a lengthy and profitable run for the film, as many of Nolan’s films have followed a very similar pattern. The strong opening for the $19 million budgeted Girls Trip suggests a sequel won’t be too far off as similarly performing properties from producer Will Packer have followed a similar path.

This week’s third-place film, Spider-Man: Homecoming managed to ensnare $22 million to bring its domestic total to slightly over $251 million (it’s global total is an impressive $570 million). War for the Planet of the Apes added an additional $20.4 million, a drop of 64% from its first week of release, to bring the film’s two-week domestic total to $97.8 million

Luc Besson’s science-fiction epic, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets brought in $17 million, which was good enough for fifth place, but probably not good enough for a production with a budget reportedly somewhere between $150 and $180 million, though it has yet to open overseas, where it will more than likely make more than it has stateside. The animated Despicable Me 3 added another $12.7 million to bring its cumulative total to $213.3 million domestically and a global total of $727.4 million.

The seven through nine finishers were separated by about a million dollars each, making the bottom part of this week’s top ten a very tight race. The action film from writer/director Edgar Wright, Baby Driver, finished in seventh with $6 million, which brought the film’s four-week total to $84.2 million. The Big Sick finished in eight place with $5 million (and a five-week total of $24.5 million). Wonder Woman added another $4.6 million to its $389 million cumulative total, landing it firmly in ninth place. Finally, the poorly-reviewed horror film Wish Upon took in another $2.5 million, bringing its two-week total to $10.5 million as it no doubt prepares to bid the Top Ten farewell in the very near future.

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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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