What other director could release a World War II film in the middle of the summer with no A-list leading actor and rake in over $50 million at the weekend box office? Spider-Man: Homecoming managed to hold over well on its third weekend with a 50% drop after having the biggest second-weekend drop (62%) for a Marvel Studios movie; the film's status as a family-friendly alternative to some of the darker, edgier fare that has released in July will most likely carry it forward to further success - which ought to come as a sigh of relief to Sony executives who might have anxious that the Marvel Studios partnership wasn't going to pay off as well as they would have hoped. Yesterday, it debuted with $19.8 million, which includes $5.5 million from Thursday night previews.
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Girls Trip follows a foursome - Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, and Jada Pinkett Smith - who go out for a long overdue women's weekend to New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival.
"'Girls Trip" was a perfectly counter-programmed box office surprise", Dergarabedian said. Malcolm D. Lee directed and produced alongside producer Will Packer.
When compared to Saving Private Ryan, the highest-earning World War II feature film of all time, Dunkirk came close to matching it when inflation was taken into account: The Hollywood Reporter points out that Saving Private Ryan's $31 million opening inflates to a little over $57 million today, which makes Dunkirk a film that's already in step with the leader in its class. STX Entertainment is releasing the movie in the USA via its partnership with Besson's EuropaCorp, but doesn't have any money in the film.
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Valerian, a sci-fi epic costing $180 million, crash-landed in the US with $17 million from 3,553 theaters. Nor did STX pay for marketing, according to insiders.
Among those films in standard release, Sony/Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming was No. 1 for the third day in a row with $4,45M, beating 20th Century Fox's War for the Planet of the Apes, which made $3.7M in second. It earned another $20.4 million (cume now $97.8 million).
"We're beyond thrilled with this exceptional achievement for 'Dunkirk, '" said Jeff Goldstein, who heads distribution for Warner Bros.
Rounding out the top five was another debut, Luc Besson's US$180 million space fantasy "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".
Starring Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, it's based on the French comic Valerian And Laureline. The indie film, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, grossed an estimated $52,000 from four theaters for a screen average of $13,000.
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