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The Weekend Round-up
Dunkirk held on to the top spot for the third successive week, adding £4.6m, which takes its total to £38.2m. It’s now Christopher Nolan’s third biggest film in the UK, behind only The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. It’s also the fourth biggest film of 2017 to date, just behind Despicable Me 3, which it should overtake this week.
The Emoji Movie opened in second with £2.7m, which includes £918k from previews after opening last Wednesday.
Eye-popping sci-fi Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets opened in third with £1.9m, which included £655k from previews. Luc Besson’s previous film, sci-fi thriller Lucy, opened with £3.1m in 2014.
Despicable Me 3 added £1.2m in fourth, a drop of 47%, as it closes in on £40m. It’s now on £39.3m and it should have reached £40m by the weekend.
Girls Trip was the most impressive performer in the top 10. It fell just 10% week on week (once previews are removed) to £1m, which was enough for fifth spot. That takes its total to £3.8m and it’s obviously experiencing terrific word of mouth, so there should be a good deal more to come.
Spider-Man: Homecoming in sixth added £928k for a new total of £26.8m. It has now surpassed the final total of both of Andrew Garfield’s Amazing Spider-Man films and 2002’s Spider-Man 2 (£26.7m).
Outside of the top five, Bollywood title Jab Harry Met Sejal opened in 10th with £370k, while England is Mine and Maudie opened in 14th and 15th with £77k (including £15k from previews) and £49k respectively.
Overall the box office was down 25% from last weekend and down 28% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Suicide Squad, Finding Dory, Jason Bourne and The BFG.
Next Weekend
Atomic Blonde is a bone-crunching action-thriller starring Charlize Theron as an undercover MI6 agent who is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. It’s super stylish with a terrific 80s soundtrack. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday.
Annabelle: Creation is the sequel to the 2014 horror hit which grossed £7.5m in the UK. Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
A Ghost Story is a drama from David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon). Casey Affleck plays a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost who returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife (Rooney Mara).
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature is the sequel to the animation that grossed £4.5m in August 2014. Following the events of the first film, Surly and his friends must stop Oakton City's mayor from destroying their home to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is the sequel to the Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth, which brought climate change into the heart of popular culture. This follow-up demonstrates just how close we are to a real energy revolution.
Overdrive is an action thriller about two car thief brothers, who journey to the south of France for new opportunities and wind up in the cross hairs of the local crime boss. It stars Scott Eastwood and Ana de Armas.
The Buzz
The Dark Tower is the long-awaited adaptation of the Stephen King fantasy series. Idris Elba plays the last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, who has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black. Deschain is determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black. The book is a cult favourite and the film opened in the US this past weekend with just under $20m (see below), but the critics haven’t been kind - the film currently has a score of 35 on Metacritic.
Across the Pond
The Dark Tower opened in the top spot with $19.1m. Dunkirk came in second, falling just 34% to $17.1m, which takes its total to $133m. On its second weekend, The Emoji Movie came in third with $12m, which takes its total to $49.1m. Girls Trip had another solid weekend, coming in fourth and adding $11.4m for a new total of $85.4m. Halle Berry-starring thriller Kidnap opened in fifth with $10m.