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A30 PEOPLE & ARTS
Monday 7 august 2017
‘Dark Tower’ tops slow

weekend, ‘Detroit’ disappoints

By JAKE COYLE “It was always an ambi- But “Kidnap” still outper-
AP Film Writer tions and bold undertaking formed the week’s other
NEW YORK (AP) — After a but it was made at the right new wide release, the far
decade of development price,” said Adrian Smith, more anticipated “Detroit.”
and several postpone- president of domestic distri- The Kathryn Bigelow-direct-
ments, the long-awaited bution for Sony Pictures. ed docudrama is also the
Stephen King adaptation By comparison, the recent first release for an upstart
“The Dark Tower” debuted flop “Valerian and the City distributor.
with an estimated $19.5 mil- of a Thousand Planets,” The first film distributed by
lion in North American tick- which opened with $17 mil- Megan Ellison’s Annapur-
This image released by Sony Pictures shows Idris Elba, left, and et sales, narrowly edging lion, cost at least $180 mil- na Pictures, “Detroit” de-
Matthew McConaughey in the Columbia Pictures film, “The Dark out the two-week leader lion to make. buted with a disappoint-
Tower.” “Dunkirk.” Christopher Nolan’s World ing $7.3 million after a
The modest result for “The War II epic “Dunkirk” slid to limited release last week.
Dark Tower,” starring Idris second with $17.6 million As a producer, Ellison, the
Elba and Matthew McCo- in its third week. It’s now Oracle heiress, has been
naughey, was in line with made $133.6 million do- behind some of the most
expectations heading into mestically. acclaimed films in recent
the weekend but well shy Other holdovers — “The years, including “Foxcatch-
of initial hopes for a pos- Emoji Movie” ($12.4 million er” and “American Hustle.”
sible franchise-starter. in its second week) and “Detroit,” the third collabo-
J.J. Abrams and Ron How- “Girls Trip” ($11.4 million in ration between Bigelow
ard are among the direc- its third week) followed. and screenwriter Mark
tors who previously tried Another long-delayed film Boal (“The Hurt Locker,”
to tackle King’s magnum also made its debut. ‘’Zero Dark Thirty”), reimag-
opus, a seven-book series The Halle Berry thriller “Kid- ines the terror-filled events
that melds sci-fi with horror nap” opened with $10.2 around the Algiers Motel in-
and other genres. million. cident during the 1967 De-
But the long battle to make The film, styled after the troit riots.
“The Dark Tower” ended Liam Neeson “Taken” se- “We wish more people had
with poor reviews and few ries,” was released by the showed up this weekend
fireworks. new distributor Aviron Pic- but we are really, really
Still, the movie was made tures after it bought the proud of the movie,” said
for a relatively modest North American rights from Erik Lomis, Annapurna’s dis-
amount: about $60 million, Relativity. tribution chief.
or half of what many other Before entering bankrupt- “The movie got an A-
summer movies cost. cy, Relativity had sched- minus CinemaScore and
Sony Pictures also split costs uled the film’s release for the reviews have been
with Media Rights Capital. 2015. spectacular.”q

Rolling Stones guitarist feared

the worst with cancer call

LONDON (AP) — Rolling says he just told the doctor
Stones guitarist Ronnie to get it out of him.
Wood has revealed that Wood told The Mail on Sun-
he feared the worst after day that he had decided
being diagnosed with lung not to have chemotherapy
cancer earlier this year. if results turned out to be
The 70-year-old guitarist bad. He says he decided,
says he thought it might “I wasn’t going to lose my
be “time to say goodbye,” hair. This hair wasn’t going
after a doctor performing anywhere.” He thanked In this file photo dated Tuesday,
routine tests offered the doctors in May for treat- June 10, 2014, British rock
news that he “had this su- ing a small lesion in his lung band Rolling Stones guitarist
pernova burning away on and will undergo checks Ronnie Wood performs during
my left lung.” The musician every three months.q a concert in Berlin.

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