Dunkirk demonstrates strength on the North American sales charts

Director Christopher Nolan continues to demonstrate his ability as his "spiritual son" - Dunkirk still stands at the top of the North American sales charts after 2 weeks of release.

Ignoring any predictions that a war movie like Dunkirk will not make a big hit, the results prove the opposite as it's the fifth movie in 2017 to top the chart rankings. recorded in North America for two weeks. Dunkirk has dropped 44% from its first week and has become Nolan's $ 100 million gross domestic film, which grossed more than $ 100 million domestically. USD), The Prestige ($ 53 million), Memento ($ 25 million) and Following ($ 48,482).


Thus, the director of the Batman series The Dark Knight, Inception and Interstellar has proved to people that a film with a war theme is still successful if properly crafted and standardized.

On the day of its release last week, Dunkirk expects only $ 40 million in its first three days, meaning it can only find $ 17.6 million in its second week. The movie has reached $ 102.8 million and the international market is $ 131 million while the film's production costs just $ 100 million. This week, the film was also the only competitor to be The Emoji Movie from the Sony, but the film was a low-scoring bomb from critics and audiences. 1.4 / 10 IMDb, 9/100 Metacritic, 8% Rotten Tomatoes. However, because of light content, family style fun should also earned $ 25.6 million domestic. The international budget has yet to be officially announced but the budget of The Emoji Movie is only $ 50 million, so the full payoff of the super bomb can happen.

Atomic Blonde is also expected to make a big hit with the R age rating and was made by director David Leitch who made the superhero John Wick. Despite the appearance of superstar Charlize Theron, the action film on the ball blonde still earned only modest amount of $ 18 million and $ 5 million worldwide.

The first week of August is not much change except one notable blockbuster is The Dark Tower adapted from the novel of King Stephen King.

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