Weekend Box Office Roundup

Weekend Box Office Top 10:

Writer/director Christopher Nolan's WW2 epic, DUNKIRK is #1 with $28.1M (Million) for the weekend. The domestic total is now $102.8M, and worldwide stands at $234.1M on this Warner Bros. release, which cost $100M to produce before advertising, and is well on its way towards profitability. Sony's animated family film THE EMOJI MOVIE is #2 with a debut of $25.6M. Directed by animation vet Tony Leonidis, who shares a writing credit along with Eric Siegel and Mike White, this is a very solid result for this $50M budgeted film which is expected to play through August and have a stronger international performance than domestic, as global rolls out in the coming weeks. GIRLS TRIP is #3 with $20M, for a decline of just -35.6% from its debut last weekend, bringing the film's total to $65.5M and climbing. This Universal R-rated comedy, directed by Malcolm D. Lee, and written by Kenya Barris, Tracy Oliver, and Eric Rivinoja, carried a production budget of only $19M plus marketing, meaning it is already profitable for the studio. By next weekend, it will surpass THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY to become director Lee's biggest hit. Focus Features and Sierra Affinity's '80s-set spy/action pic ATOMIC BLONDE is #4 with an $18.5M domestic debut, and very early worldwide total of $24.4M with almost every international market yet to roll out. Directed by David Leitch from a screenplay by Kurt Johnstad, based on the graphic novel by Antony Johnson and Sam Hart, this is a strong start for a film which only carries a $30M budget plus marketing. Much of its potential profitability will rely on how well Atomic Blonde continues to perform in the U.S., and how it plays globally. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios is #5 with $13.4M, a domestic total now of $278.3M, and a worldwide haul of $633.7M and rising. Directed by Jon Watts, and credited to six writers (Watts included), this superhero reboot has now surpassed both totals of the "Amazing" films (which brought in $262M domestic, and a franchise-worst $202M domestic respectively), making it the most successful Spider-Man pic since Sam Raimi's trilogy, and among Marvel's most successful releases. Budget was kept at a reasonable $175M in line with other Marvel Studios films, making this very profitable. Fox's WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES is #6 with $10.3M, a domestic total now of $118.6M, and a global total of $224.5M and climbing. Directed by Matt Reeves, who also co-wrote the film with Mark Bombak, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and conclusion of Reeves' Apes trilogy, carried a production budget of $150M plus marketing, meaning it still has a ways to go before profitability, but should still get there. Expectations are that this will be the lowest grossing of the trilogy, however -- with RISE earning $481M worldwide, and DAWN sitting at the top spot with a franchise-best of $710M globally. WAR is not expected to reach either of those numbers, though at its budget, it does not have to. DESPICABLE ME 3 from Universal and Illumination is #7 with $7.7M, a domestic total of $230.4M, and a worldwide haul of $819M. This family film, directed by Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, and Eric Guillon, from a screenplay by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, is immensely profitable for the studio. The budget was kept at a very reasonable $80M plus marketing, meaning the film has now earned over 10X that amount, continuing Illumination's winning streak. VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is #8 with $6.8M, a domestic total now of just $30.6M, with worldwide yet to be reported by Europacorp, who partnered with STX on the domestic release. Produced for $177M, this sci-fi epic based on a French graphic novel series, from writer/director Luc Besson, is now poised to be one of the biggest financial disasters of all-time at the box office. Writer/director Edgar Wright's heist-romance BABY DRIVER is #9 with $4M, an impressive domestic total now of $92M, and a worldwide total of $138.6M. This Sony release, which carried a budget of just $34M plus marketing, has become yet another success story of a modestly-budgeted original film beating expectations, joining the ranks of JOHN WICK ($88M off a $20M budget), LUCY $463M off a $40M budget), NON-STOP ($222.8M off a budget of $50M), and others, continuing to prove the audience's hunger for new, original stories. WONDER WOMAN is #10 with $3.5M, a huge domestic total now of $395.4M, and a global haul of $786M. Domestically, this Warner Bros. superhero film is now WB's third biggest hit of all-time behind Nolan's DARK KNIGHT and DARK KNIGHT RISES, and is also set to become only their third film to ever cross the $400M threshold by next weekend. Directed by Patty Jenkins, from a screenplay credited to Alan Heinberg and Story By credits given to Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs, the film is also the top title of their new DC Cinematic Universe line domestically, and number two worldwide, behind BATMAN V. SUPERMAN, which brought in $873M globally. However, with a budget of $149M, Wonder Woman is by far their most profitable film of the line of DC Universe titles. Next weekend sees the domestic releases of THE DARK TOWER, and WIND RIVER, along with the expansion of DETROIT.