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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 31 July 2017

‘Dunkirk’ conquers ‘Emoji,’ ‘Atomic Blonde’ at box office

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The
Emoji Movie” survived neg-
ative reviews but couldn’t
conquer “Dunkirk,” which
had enough fight left to
conquer the box office for
a second weekend in a
row.
Down only 44 percent from
its first weekend, director
Christopher Nolan’s World
War II film earned $28.1 mil-
lion to take first place, ac-
cording to studio estimates
on Sunday. “Dunkirk” has
grossed $102.8 million do-
mestically to date.
Sony Pictures Animation’s
“The Emoji Movie” finished
second with $25.7 million.
The film featuring the voices
of T.J. Miller and Anna Faris
as anthropomorphized
emojis got pummeled by
critics. It’s currently resting
at a dismal 8 percent on
Rotten Tomatoes, but au-
diences still turned out. This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Harry Styles, from left, Aneurin Barnard and Fionn Whitehead in a scene from
“It’s great when the crit- “Dunkirk.”
ics and audiences are Associated Press
in sync but in the end it
comes down to: Has the mune. is Universal Pictures R-rated Focus Features. officially passed both
“Kids don’t care about re-
comedy “Girls Trip,” which Theron produced and stars “Amazing
Spider-Man”
film reached the intended
audience?” said Adrian views, and there is a severe fell a miniscule 36 percent in the film about a British movies at the North Ameri-
lack of family films in the from its debut weekend to spy on a mission in Berlin can box office, although it
Smith, Sony’s president of
domestic distribution. “See- marketplace,” said Paul take third place with $20.1 near the end of the Cold is still lagging significantly
behind the Tobey Maguire
Dergarabedian, a senior million.
War.
ing these results, it clearly
has.” media analyst for com- Even in weekend two, “Girls It cost an estimated $30 mil- “Spider-Man” films.
Trip” beat out the splashy lion to produce. While re-
Score.
While the summer box of-
Sony is expecting the film,
which cost an estimated But “The Emoji Movie” new Charlize Theron ac- views were generally posi- fice remains down from
also fell at the box office tioner “Atomic Blonde,” dis-
tive, audiences gave the last year, audiences are still
$50 million to produce, to
play well for the rest of the throughout the weekend tributed by Universal’s bou- film a middling B CinemaS- turning out for some of the
after a strong Friday when tique label Focus Features. core, which could affect its buzzier specialty releases.
summer.
The divide between re- it placed No. 1, which Der- “Atomic Blonde” opened word-of-mouth potential. Annapurna Pictures rolled
out the Kathryn Bigelow film
In fifth place was “Spider-
garabedian thinks could in fourth with $18.6 million.
views and a film’s success
has been a continuing be due to negative word “We think it’s a really solid Man: Homecoming” now “Detroit,” about an inci-
of mouth on social media. opening for the movie and in its fourth weekend in the-
dent during the 1967 riots, a
topic this summer, as some
films, such as “Baywatch,” By contrast, the extremely think that the film is going ater. The new web-slinger week before its nationwide
well-reviewed
“Dunkirk” to have a nice long life at added $13.5 million which launch in 20 theaters in 10
capsized under poor re-
views, and others like “The rose throughout the week- the box office for the sum- bumped its domestic total markets including Detroit,
mer,” said Lisa Bunnell, to $278.4 million.
New York, Los Angeles, Bal-
end.
Emoji Movie” seemed im-
Also holding on quite well president of distribution for “Homecoming” has now timore and Atlanta.q
Katie Couric leaving Yahoo news site
NEW YORK (AP) — Katie A representative for Cou- for Netflix, hosts a podcast
Couric is leaving the online ric said Friday she turned where she interviews figures
company Oath, formerly down an opportunity for a in news and pop culture,
Yahoo, where she has been short-term contract exten- and produces “Scraps,” a
conducting interviews and sion at Oath. cooking and travel series
reporting news since 2014. Couric is working on a doc- for the FYI network.
The former “Today” show umentary with National The 60-year-old Couric also
host and “CBS Evening Geographic, where she hosts an online cooking se-
News” anchor will be con- did a project on gender ries with her husband John
centrating on production revolution recently. She’s Molner.q
work for the time being. producing a scripted series
In this April 24, 2017 file photo, Katie Couric attends the Matrix
Awards, hosted by New York Women in Communications, at the
Sheraton Times Square in New York.