“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…