Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 4-6, 2017
1. Dunkirk £4,624,570 (£38,191,064, 3 weeks)
2. The Emoji Movie £2,702,809 (new release)
3. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets £1,861,916 (new release)
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4. Despicable Me 3 £1,189,440 (£39,340,831, 6 weeks)
5. Girls Trip £1,036,842 (£3,806,763, 2 weeks)
6. Spider-Man: Homecoming £927,957 (£26,811,760, 5 weeks)
7. War for the Planet of the Apes £881,374 (£18,348,929, 4 weeks)
8. Captain Underpants £594,874 (£4,409,725, 2 weeks)
9. Cars 3 £495,039 (£8,831,016, 4 weeks)
10. Jab Harry Met Sejal £369,718 (new release)
Chart copyright Rentrak
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk continues to dominate the chart, notching up its third week at the top. It has now overtaken Inception to become Nolan’s second most commercially successful release behind The Dark Knight Rises. It’s also about to overtake Despicable Me 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 to become 2017’s second biggest film behind Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Mind you, it helped that the two new releases just behind Dunkirk in the chart had such a terrible critical reception. The Emoji Movie actually did quite well over its five-day opening ‘weekend’, since its undiscriminating nipper audience clearly didn’t read the reviews. Time will tell whether this one holds up or drops like a stone like rival animations Captain Underpants, which fell from second to eighth place, and Cars 3 (still on course to become Pixar’s lowest grossing UK release). Outside the top ten, unofficial Morrissey biopic England is Mine – aka Adrian Mole: The Indie Years – took £77,000.
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