“Dark Tower” (Barely) Rises Above Another Medicore Boxoffice Weekend, “Dunkirk” Keeps Trying to Rescue Summer, and Next Up: a Creepy Doll, YA Angst and a Bag of Nuts. This Week at the Boxoffice.

First things first. How bad was this weekend vs. the same one last year? We were down a whopping 45% against the same weekend in 2016 when “Suicide Squad” opened to USD $133 million. This weekend’s boxoffice “winner”, “The Dark Tower” could only muster 1/6th of that total. Yikes. Here’s a further th…
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“Dunkirk” Storms the Beach to Score a 2nd Week Boxoffice Victory Over a Meh “Emoji Movie”. Now Can “The Dark Tower” Extend Sony’s Boxoffice Resurgence”? This Week at the Boxoffice.

The biggest story of the weekend was that Christopher Nolan’s WWII epic, “Dunkirk”, dropped a respectable 44% and thereby held off the charge of dancing clown faced emojis to win its second weekend and cross the USD $100 million domestic plateau. The movie also continues to rack up change overseas w…
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“Cars 3” Outduels Another Incredible “Wonder Woman” Hold to Take The Grand Prix of Hollywood But “Transformers” is (Optimus) Primed to Lay Claim to the Box Office Throne. This Coming Weekend at the Box Office.

Sure it was the lowest opening of any of the franchise’s three outings but Disney/Pixar’s “Cars 3” still managed to use its pole position to grab the lead on Friday night that it never relinquished, despite yet another glittering hold from Gal Gadot and the rest of the Amazons. “Cars 3” sped to a US…
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It’s A Wonderful Hold for “Woman Woman”, But Now The Girl With The Golden Bracelets Faces Tupac, ScarJo’s Bachelorette Party and a Garage Full of Animated Cars. This Coming Weekend at the Boxoffice

Girl Power. DC’s “Wonder Woman” enjoyed one of the smallest drops for a superhero franchise in recent memory, falling a paltry 45% to finish its sophomore weekend at USD $57 million. That was good enough to easily remain atop the North American boxoffice, crushing Tom Cruise’s redux of “The Mummy”.…