Weekend Box Office Report
August 4 - August 6, 2017
By Daniel Garris
| Weekend Actuals Update: |
| With actuals now in, Sony’s The Dark Tower came in slightly below yesterday’s studio estimate with a first place debut of $19.154 M. Warner’s Dunkirk also came in slightly below its
estimate with a second place take of $17.135 M. |
| Other weekend actuals for the frame include: The Emoji Movie ($12.005 M), Girls Trip ($11.401 M), Kidnap ($10.016 M), Spider-Man: Homecoming ($8.846 M),
Atomic Blonde ($8.158 M), Detroit ($7.126 M), War for the Planet of the Apes ($6.169 M), Despicable Me 3 ($5.430 M), Baby Driver ($2.574 M), Valerian ($2.395 M),
Wonder Woman ($2.286 M), The Big Sick ($2.163 M), An Inconvenient Sequel ($961 K) and Wind River ($162 K). |
| Weekend Estimates Update: |
| Sony’s The Dark Tower took first place this weekend with an estimated $19.50 M. While it was able to open on the low end of expectations, The Dark Tower was off to an underwhelming
start this weekend, especially since the film appeared to be one of the more anticipated releases of this August. Largely negative critical reviews (The Dark Tower has a current score of 4.545 on
our LoveHate Rate aggregate measurement of critical and online ratings) helped limit the film’s potential this weekend. The Dark Tower may
have also been hampered by its 95 minute running time turning off some fans of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower book series. On a more positive note, the reported production budget for The Dark Tower was a relatively
modest $60 M. The film also appears to be going over much better with audiences than with critics, as it received a respectable B rating on CinemaScore. The Dark Tower opened 43.8 percent below the $34.70 M start
of last year’s The Magnificent Seven and instead started out more in line with the $18.68 M debut of Ghost in the Shell earlier this year. |
| Warner’s Dunkirk held up very nicely this weekend to place in a close second with an estimated $17.60 M. Dunkirk declined just 33.9 percent from last weekend. In addition to being
aided by strong critical reviews and strong word of mouth, Dunkirk received an added boost this weekend from expanding into an additional 266 locations. Dunkirk has grossed a healthy $133.56 M in 17 days.
That already gives the film a current total gross to opening weekend ratio of 2.64 to 1. Dunkirk is running 10.4 percent ahead of the $120.93 M grossed by 2014’s Interstellar after 17 days of wide release.
An estimated $3.99 M of this weekend’s overall gross came from IMAX locations, which brings the film’s total IMAX gross to $29.81 M. Dunkirk should continue to hold up very well throughout the month of August,
especially with the film remaining on IMAX screens. |
| Internationally, Dunkirk grossed an estimated $25.0 M this weekend from 63 markets. That brings the film’s international total to $180.6 M and global total to $314.2 M. Dunkirk grossed
an estimated $6.1 M in the U.K. this weekend, where it has grossed $49.8 M in 17 days. |
| Sony’s The Emoji Movie placed in third with an estimated $12.35 M. The Emoji Movie declined 49.7 percent from last weekend, which represented a respectable second weekend hold,
especially given the film’s very poor critical reviews. The Emoji Movie has proven to be largely critic proof with a solid ten-day take of $49.45 M. The Emoji Movie is running 8.2 percent ahead of the
$45.71 M ten-day haul of 2015’s Pixels (which fell 56.3 percent in its second weekend to gross $10.50 M). The Emoji Movie will be facing new competition for family audiences next weekend, when Open Road’s
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature arrives in theatres on Friday. |
| Universal’s Girls Trip claimed fourth place with an estimated $11.42 M. While it appears to have taken a slight hit from the new competition provided by this weekend’s three new wide releases,
Girls Trip was still down a solid 41.9 percent. In the bigger picture, Girls Trip continues to exceed expectations with a strong 17-day take of $85.44 M. That already gives Girls Trip a current total
gross to opening weekend ratio of 2.74 to 1 and leaves the film just $14.56 M away from reaching the $100 M domestic milestone. Girls Trip is running 19.7 percent ahead of the $71.37 M 17-day gross of last year’s
Bad Moms. |
| Aviron Pictures’ Kidnap debuted with a stronger than expected estimated fifth place start of $10.21 M. The Halle Berry led thriller was a strong first performer for new distributor Aviron Pictures, who purchased
the rights for the long delayed Kidnap from Relativity Media. Kidnap did open 40.4 percent below the $17.12 M start of 2013’s The Call, but hadn’t been expected to reach the same box office heights as
The Call. Kidnap debuted more in line with the $11.85 M launch of The Gift back in August of 2015. While critical response to Kidnap has been lackluster
(the film has a current LoveHate Rate of 5.217), the film appears to be going over significantly better with audiences, as it received a very
solid B+ rating on CinemaScore. That is a good early sign for Kidnap going forward, as is the film’s slim 1.9 percent decline from Friday on Saturday. |
| Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming placed in sixth with an estimated $8.80 M. After initial front-loading, Spider-Man: Homecoming continues to stabilize nicely, as the film was down only
33.6 percent this weekend. Spider-Man: Homecoming has grossed a terrific $294.91 M in 31 days. That is in line with the film’s lofty expectations and leaves the film just $5.09 M away from reaching the $300 M
domestic milestone. |
| Focus’ Atomic Blonde took seventh place with an estimated $8.24 M. The Charlize Theron action vehicle declined a sizable, but expected 54.9 percent from its opening weekend performance.
Atomic Blonde has grossed $34.13 M in ten days, which represents a solid performance with the film’s modest $30 M production budget in mind. Atomic Blonde is running 24.0 percent ahead of the $27.43 M ten-day
start of 2014’s John Wick (which decreased 44.5 percent in its second weekend to gross $7.99 M). |
| Meanwhile, Annapurna Pictures’ Detroit expanded into wide release with an estimated eighth place take of $7.25 M. Detroit, which represents the first film from Annapurna Pictures as a
distributor, performed below expectations and was likely slowed by the competition it faced from Kidnap this weekend. In fact, Detroit and Kidnap essentially appear to have changed places this weekend
with regard to the respective expectations for both films by most heading into the weekend (BoxOfficeReport included). The opening weekend performance of Detroit was 35.9 percent below the $11.31 M grossed by
Selma during its first weekend of wide release back in January of 2015. Like Selma, Detroit will hope to display strong holding power thanks in part to strong critical reviews. Detroit has a
current LoveHate Rate of 8.051, which is easily the highest score among this weekend’s three new wide releases. Detroit also appears
to be going over well with audiences, as it received a healthy A- rating on CinemaScore. |
| On the platform front, The Weinstein Company’s Wind River was off to a promising start with an estimated $164 K from 4 locations in New York and Los Angeles. That gave Wind River a
healthy per-location average of $41,042 for the frame. The critically acclaimed Taylor Sheridan directed film starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen will expand into additional cities this coming Friday. |
| In other box office news, Warner’s Wonder Woman is now on the verge of reaching the $400 M domestic milestone with a total gross of $399.51 M through Sunday. Wonder Woman continues to
display tremendous holding power, as the film was down just 29.4 percent this weekend to gross an estimated $2.36 M. |
Weekend Studio Estimates for August 4 - August 6, 2017.
| Film (Distributor) | Weekend Gross |
Theatre Count |
Per-Thea. Average |
%Change |
Total Gross |
TG to OW Ratio |
Week | |
| 1 | The Dark Tower (Sony / Columbia) |
$19,500,000 | 3,451 | $5,651 | NEW | $19,500,000 | 1.000 | 1 |
| 2 | Dunkirk (Warner Bros.) |
$17,600,000 | 4,014 | $4,385 | -33.9% | $133,556,000 | 2.644 | 3 |
| 3 | The Emoji Movie (Sony / Columbia) |
$12,350,000 | 4,075 | $3,031 | -49.7% | $49,452,000 | 2.016 | 2 |
| 4 | Girls Trip (Universal) |
$11,419,000 | 2,582 | $4,422 | -41.9% | $85,444,000 | 2.738 | 3 |
| 5 | Kidnap (Aviron Pictures) |
$10,210,000 | 2,378 | $4,294 | NEW | $10,210,000 | 1.000 | 1 |
| 6 | Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony / Columbia) |
$8,800,000 | 3,116 | $2,824 | -33.6% | $294,908,000 | 2.520 | 5 |
| 7 | Atomic Blonde (Focus) |
$8,245,000 | 3,326 | $2,479 | -54.9% | $34,125,000 | 1.866 | 2 |
| 8 | Detroit (Annapurna Pictures) |
$7,251,000 | 3,007 | $2,411 | +1,970.6% | $7,766,000 | 1.071 | 2 |
| 9 | War for the Planet of the Apes (Fox) |
$6,000,000 | 2,704 | $2,219 | -42.7% | $130,280,000 | 2.316 | 4 |
| 10 | Despicable Me 3 (Universal) |
$5,289,000 | 2,445 | $2,163 | -30.3% | $240,780,000 | 3.324 | 6 |
| 11 | Baby Driver (Sony / TriStar) |
$2,550,000 | 1,424 | $1,791 | -35.8% | $97,051,000 | 4.722 | 6 |
| 12 | Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (STXfilms / EuropaCorp) |
$2,360,000 | 1,795 | $1,315 | -62.9% | $36,102,000 | 2.123 | 3 |
| 12 | Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.) |
$2,360,000 | 1,307 | $1,806 | -29.4% | $399,506,000 | 3.869 | 10 |
| 14 | The Big Sick (Lionsgate / Amazon) |
$2,200,000 | 1,005 | $2,189 | -30.8% | $33,964,000 | 4.491 | 7 |
| An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Paramount) |
$900,000 | 180 | $5,000 | +621.0% | $1,052,000 | 1.169 | 2 | |
| Cars 3 (Disney) |
$605,000 | 477 | $1,268 | -36.7% | $147,686,000 | 2.751 | 8 | |
| Wolf Warrior 2 (H Collective / Well Go USA) |
$460,000 | 32 | $14,375 | +110.0% | $1,063,000 | 2.312 | 2 | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Disney) |
$445,000 | 252 | $1,766 | +60.5% | $388,390,000 | 2.651 | 14 | |
| 47 Meters Down (Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures) |
$289,000 | 411 | $703 | +48.0% | $43,109,000 | 3.847 | 8 | |
| Transformers: The Last Knight (Paramount) |
$270,000 | 322 | $839 | -51.6% | $129,361,000 | 2.895 | 7 | |
| Maudie (Sony Pictures Classics / Mongrel) |
$262,000 | 187 | $1,404 | -20.9% | $5,118,000 | 13.088 | 17 | |
| Landline (Magnolia / Amazon) |
$240,000 | 141 | $1,702 | +88.1% | $503,000 | 2.096 | 3 | |
| Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (Fox / DWorks Anim.) |
$195,000 | 229 | $852 | -34.4% | $72,854,000 | 3.054 | 10 | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Disney) |
$177,000 | 167 | $1,060 | -15.4% | $171,335,000 | 2.720 | 11 | |
| Lady Macbeth (Roadside) |
$164,000 | 131 | $1,254 | -6.7% | $737,000 | 4.188 | 4 | |
| Wind River (Weinstein Company) |
$164,000 | 4 | $41,042 | NEW | $164,000 | 1.000 | 1 | |
| A Ghost Story (A24) |
$146,000 | 208 | $703 | -60.3% | $1,317,000 | 3.447 | 5 | |
| Step (Fox Searchlight) |
$145,000 | 29 | $5,000 | NEW | $145,000 | 1.000 | 1 | |
| The Mummy (Universal) |
$129,000 | 146 | $884 | -31.6% | $79,938,000 | 2.523 | 9 | |
| The Midwife (Music Box Films) |
$82,698 | 43 | $1,923 | +4.0% | $226,000 | 2.727 | 3 | |
| Menashe (A24) |
$80,317 | 10 | $8,032 | +29.4% | $179,000 | 2.227 | 2 | |
| The Little Hours (Gunpowder & Sky) |
$75,260 | 60 | $1,254 | -36.8% | $1,348,000 | 4.232 | 6 | |
| Megan Leavey (Bleecker Street) |
$71,852 | 96 | $748 | +190.6% | $12,956,000 | 3.400 | 9 | |
| The Beguiled (Focus) |
$54,495 | 89 | $612 | -41.9% | $10,541,000 | 3.332 | 7 | |
| Brigsby Bear (Sony Pictures Classics) |
$42,790 | 15 | $2,853 | +7.9% | $97,377 | 2.276 | 2 | |
| Beatriz At Dinner (Roadside) |
$39,632 | 43 | $922 | -39.9% | $6,926,000 | 3.810 | 9 | |
| We Love You, Sally Carmichael! (Purdie Distribution) |
$34,397 | 7 | $4,914 | NEW | $34,397 | 1.000 | 1 | |
| Love, Kennedy (Purdie Distribution) |
$7,728 | 14 | $552 | -15.9% | $349,000 | 7.707 | 10 | |
| The B-Side (NEON) |
$3,375 | 15 | $225 | -48.6% | $121,000 | 6.576 | 6 | |
| It's Not Dark Yet (FilmRise) |
$1,000 | 2 | $500 | NEW | $1,000 | 1.000 | 1 | |
| I Dream in Another Language (FilmRise) |
$600 | 1 | $600 | -25.9% | $2,382 | 2.941 | 2 |
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