Chris Nolan’s Dunkirk was again the top holdover of the weekend, earning another $11.4 million (-33%) in its fourth weekend for a $153.713m 24-day total. That makes it Chris Nolan’s fifth-straight $150m+ domestic grosser and puts it on a clear path to pass Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ($171m) to be the fifth-biggest domestic earner of the summer. Oh, and it has $363m worldwide thus far. It had an identical fourth weekend total and drop ($11.4m/33%) as Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. Sure, said film is still $4m ahead of respective 24-day totals, but it opened $5m higher. If this continues, then Dunkirk is a lock for $200m+, not even counting awards traction.
Sony’s The Emoji Movie earned $6.6 million (-45%) weekend for a $63.59m 17-day total. The movie isn’t a bomb, as it only cost $50m and still has plenty of potential overseas, but it also clearly isn’t another Angry Birds-type hit. Ironically, its relative failure is helping Spider-Man: Homecoming by continuing to make it the event movie for kids. The reboot earned $6.1m (-31%) in its sixth weekend for a fine $306.5m domestic total. It opened with $7.1m in Japan, which pushed its worldwide total to over $702m on a $175m budget. That’ll do, Spidey. That’ll do.
Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Girls Trip earned another $6.521 million (-43%) in its fourth weekend for a $97.194m 24-day cume. It’ll top $100m domestic sometime next week and it’s looking like a final domestic cume of around $110-$115m on a $19m budget, with possible overseas bounties yet to come. This is a huge win for Will Packer, Malcolm D. Lee and the cast (Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish). Once again, when you give a starving demographic a filet mignon. By the way, it has crossed $100m worldwide for a $105m global cume.
Halle Berry’s Kidnap earned another $5.225 million (-48%), which gives the perfectly solid thriller on a $19.3m ten-day cume. It’s a cheap acquisition, but it was 4.5 years ago that The Call made $51m domestic. Focus Features’ Atomic Blonde earned $4.572m (-44%) in weekend three for a $$42.8m 17-day total. The Charlize Theron actioner will get over John Wick ($43m domestic and $88m worldwide in 2014) and should get over $50m, but I was hopeful for a bigger score. The good news is that it has earned $61m worldwide, officially doubling its $30m budget.
Detroit earned $3 million (-58%) over its third weekend for a $13.4m 17-day total. That’s not a remotely good result, even if we note how challenging and crowd-not-pleasing the picture is even for folks who loved it. It may still figure into the Oscar race, but me thinks Kathryn Bigelow’s drama should have taken the festival route. Ironically enough, it has passed the $12m total of the Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker.
Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.’s Wonder Woman earned another $1.473 million (-35%) 11th weekend in 961 theaters for a $402.2m domestic cume. It’s winding down, as it has enough muscle to pass Spider-Man ($403m in 2002), but not much more than that barring a re-issue or an awards run. No such miracles exist for STX’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, as the Luc Besson sci-fi fantasy will earn $890k (-65%) in its fourth weekend for a $38.3m 24-day domestic total. The $150m EuropaCorp fantasy (which was mostly covered via foreign pre-sales) has now earned $90m worldwide.
Oh, and Transformers: The Last Knight is almost finished with $594 million, Pirates 5 has $786m worldwide and The Mummy has $80m domestic and $405m worldwide. Walt Disney's Cars 3 is at $299m worldwide while War for the Planet of the Apes now has $314m worldwide after earning $17m overseas. Illumination's Despicable Me 3 has earned an obscene $920m worldwide. And finally, Wolf Warrior 2 will end its third weekend in North American theater with $2m. That’s quite good for a domestic release for a Chinese import, and the film made around $84m in its third weekend in China (the second-best third weekend behind The Force Awakens' $90m Fri-Sun frame in 2015/2016) for around $682m in 17 days. It might not catch The Force Awakens ($936m) in terms of single-territory records but has now passed everything else save for Avatar ($760m).
Next weekend is absolutely the end of the summer season, as The Hitman’s Bodyguard (which is good fun) opens against Logan Lucky (which is even better fun).
