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The weekend round-up
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk continued its terrific run, falling just 18% on its second weekend to £8.2m. That takes its total to £27.1m after 10 days and it will cross £30m this week.
It looks likely to become Nolan’s biggest film outside The Dark Knight series, and if it continues to hold up well over the coming weeks, it could get close to the £50m mark, a benchmark that the final two films in that franchise crossed.
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie opened in second with £2.5m, which includes £1.2m from previews after opening last Monday. It will be hoping to run throughout the school holidays.
Despicable Me 3 had another strong weekend, falling just 27% in third to £2.3m. That takes its total to £35.8m and its now the third biggest film of 2017, behind Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. It will overtake that film in the next week or so.
War For The Planet Of The Apes fell to fourth, falling 39% to £1.7m. It has now grossed £16.2m and has a good shot of beating Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ final total of £20.8m.
Spider-Man: Homecoming rounded out the top five, falling just 29% to £1.6m. It has been holding up very well in recent weeks and has now reached £24.5m. It’s certain to beat both the final totals of the two Amazing Spider-Man films, with the first film the strongest, finishing on £25.9m.
Outside of the top five, Girls Trip opened strongly in sixth with £1.6m, which included £400k from previews. 47 Metres Down opened in eighth with £638k, which included £191k from previews, and The Big Sick opened in 10th with £499k, which included £87k from previews.
Overall the box office was down 7% from last weekend and down 13% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Finding Dory, Jason Bourne, The BFG and Star Trek Beyond
Next Weekend
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a sci-fi extravaganza from Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy, Leon). A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. It opens on Wednesday.
The Emoji Movie is an animation set inside a smartphone. Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. It opened with over $24m in its first weekend in the US (see below). It’s in cinemas from Wednesday.
Maudie stars Sally Hawkins as an arthritic Nova Scotia who woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
England Is Mine is a portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970's Manchester before he went on to become lead singer of seminal 80's band The Smiths.
The Buzz
Logan Lucky is the new film from Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s 11, Traffic, Erin Brockovich). Adam Driver and Channing Tatum star as two brothers who attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina. Daniel Craig looks to be amusingly playing against type as a criminal who aids them. The first reviews are in and they’re universally positive. The Guardian gave it four stars, saying ‘it’s all wonderfully preposterous, but also endearing and gratifying’, while Screen International said ‘in a movie full of cons, the greatest may be how deceptively easy Soderbergh makes this whole enterprise seem’. The Playlist were most effusive, saying ‘this is a brilliantly constructed, whip-smart, and laugh-out-loud-funny romp from a filmmaker whose precision and craft is nearly unparalleled.’ It’s out on 25 August.
Across The Pond
Dunkirk topped the box office for a second successive weekend, falling just 47% to $26.6m. After ten days in cinemas it has now grossed $101.3m. The Emoji Movie landed in second, kicking off its run with $24.5m. Girls Trip came in third with a terrific hold, falling just 37% to $19.6m. That takes its total to $65.1m and it should end up comfortably above $100m. Atomic Blonde opened in fourth with $18.5m and Spider-Man: Homecoming completed the top five, adding $13.3m for a new total of $278.3m.