Box Office: ‘Dunkirk’ Fights For No. Vs. ‘Atomic Blonde’ & ‘Emoji Movie’Update, Sunday AM: After an intense battle for No. Warner Bros.’ Dunkirk gained yardage away from Sony Animation’s The Emoji Movie with the Christopher Nolan WWII epic taking the top spot with $2. M after a $1. 1. 3. M Saturday that was +4. Friday. That number reps a - 4. Dunkirk in weekend two. Once again, never bet against Nolan.

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It's too close to call No. 1 at the box office this weekend, with Sony's The Emoji Movie and Warner Bros' Dunkirk eyeing the top spot. Star Wars versus Star Trek is a decades-long conflict that stretches across the galaxy, turning brother against brother, tearing lifelong friendships apart. In one. With billions of hours of video streaming online, it's hard enough to get discovered, let alone break out. But the 15 digital stars on THR's new Disrupters list all.

Imax pumped 2. 2% of Dunkirk‘s North American weekend with $6. M from 4. 03 auditoriums. Seventeen of the top 2. Imax venues. Twenty- two percent of Dunkirk‘s $1. M stateside cash came from Imax natch, as Nolan shot a bulk of the movie in that format. Dunkirk will have the full the large format exhibitor’s domestic supply of screens next week.

Sony. The Emoji Movie declined 1. Friday and Saturday from $1. M to $8. 7. M putting its opening for this $5. M budgeted toon at $2.

M. Typically, animated titles see a spike on Saturday due to family matinees and it’s likely bad word of mouth off the pic’s B Cinema. Score (very low for an animated title which typically earn As or A- , no matter how hokey they are) and 8% rotten reviews are impacting Emoji. Nonetheless, Sony got this pic to open at this level with all that baggage in this Rotten Tomatoes era and that should be noted, not to mention Emoji is based on a source material mobile concept that lacked any kind of depth or universe.

Working in Emoji‘s favor is its late July date and the fact that there are no other major studio animated pics in the marketplace. Those under 1. 8, 5. Emoji‘s crowd, gave the movie an A- , which also points to where dollars are coming from. The last animated release to receive a low Cinema.

Score was 2. 0th Century Fox/Dream. Works Animation’s Captain Underpants with a B+ (though critics embraced it with a certified fresh 8. Rotten Tomatoes score). That pic opened to $2. M and turned around a 3x multiple for a current running domestic B. O. of $7. 2. 4. M. Sony is hoping for the same multiple.“It’s great when critics and audiences are in sync, but The Emoji Movie reached its intended audience and we’re thrilled that they have spoken and made it a family event < Smiley face Emoji> ,” beamed Sony’s global marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein this morning.

Greenstein gave a shoutout to Sony’s domestic marketing presidents Christine Birch and Andre Caraco for delivering the goods this weekend with Emoji Movie. The campaign obviously tapped the mobile app world, Emoji’s birthplace and stomping ground, with unique executions among key app partners including an “Emoji Match” Playlist on Spotify, augmented reality execution on Shazam, and a themed custom level on Just Dance. The studio also took advantage of these key partners’ social accounts when dropping trailers and exclusive content. Sony. Similar to how Sony conjured up Smurf day as a holiday, so they declared July 1. Showtime Full He Who Dares Online Free. World Emoji Day whereby the pic’s voiceover cast appeared on Good Morning America, Today, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and Late Night With Seth Meyers. On that day, the cast also rang the NY Stock exchange closing bell and lit the Empire State Building in yellow in honor of Emoji Movie and its partnership with Girls Who Code (a non- profit that seeks to educate and inspire tech skills in teenage girls). Sony went market to market with their walk- about characters from the movie, along with a mobile truck activation which created and co- opted events at each stop.

Also, remember, voiceover star T. J. Miller parachuted into the Cannes Film Festival. The TV push for Emoji reached every demo of the family audience with custom vignettes across the Nickelodeon networks, Disney XD, Cartoon Network, Freeform, Hallmark, OWN and TBS. On Univision/Unimas there was a multi- phased partnership that aired over the last three months with in- show integrations, unique content and sneak peeks inserted into top- rated programming like Premios Juventud, La Reina de la Cancion, Despierta America and CONCACAF Gold Cup.  Plus, weekly custom “Emoji- Minute” segments throughout. There was the custom- made spot “The Real Emojis of Textopolis” featuring film characters playing off the iconic Housewives introduction on Bravo. Still with all this marketing muscle behind Emoji Movie, it would be interesting to see how much higher this animated film could have opened if a universally appealing and critically acclaimed movie was crafted. Because when an animated movie has that groundswell (read Illumination Entertainment titles), audiences don’t hold back their bucks.

Universal Pictures. Focus Features/Sierra Affinity’s Cold War spy movie Atomic Blonde is turning in a solid $1. M at 3,3. 04 venues in fourth. The Charlize Theron action title dipped on Saturday to $6. M from Friday’s $7.

M, but remember opening day was boosted by $1. M in previews. Audience make- up is next to even with 5. Sixty- two percent were over 2. Atomic Blonde‘s opening reps the fourth- best debut for Focus Features after 2. Insidious: Chapter 3 ($2. M ), last year’s London Has Fallen ($2.

M) and 2. 00. 8’s Burn After Reading ($1. M). “We’ve been able to hit female empowerment in the movie industry and bring females in the spotlight whether it’s onscreen or behind the camera,” said Focus Features distribution chief Lisa Bunnell about Focus’ recent specialty streak that also includes Cannes best director winner The Beguiled from Sofia Coppola and Niki Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife. This is the time period for an edgy sensual thriller,” added Bunnell about the upcoming August play period, “A movie like this will take on new life and can have legs. It’s the reason why we opened here; you can play through Labor Day.” Atomic Blonde received an overall 7. Watch The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor Tube Free more.

Com. Score/Screen Engine’s Post. Trak. Focus took domestic on Atomic Blonde (license,not equity stake) at Cannes two years ago with Uni taking two- thirds of the world. Sierra Affinity financed this $3. M pic via presales and bridge financing.

Universal also had a fantastic weekend with its R- rated African American comedy Girls Trip which registered a 3. Watch The House Of Mirth Download. M in weekend two and a 1. M. This week it will become director Malcolm D.

Lee’s highest grossing movie at the domestic B. O, surpassing The Best Man Holiday ($7. M). Annapurna. Annapurna’s first theatrical release as a distributor Detroit posted a strong $1. K per theater at 2. K opening. That’s 1. Kathryn Bigelow’s previous movie Zero Dark Thirty which opened to $4. K. Remember that movie was about a current affairs news topic, the Osama bin Laden hunt which was on the minds of many moviegoers, hence the higher opening.

In addition, Detroit beat the opening weekend of the director’s The Hurt Locker which was at four venues and opened to $1. K. At the last minute, Annapurna decided to tee up Detroit with a limited play, much like her last two titles The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty were handled, prior to its wide blast next weekend. The movie has a 9. Rotten Tomatoes. The pic follows the 1. Street riot in Motor City when a curfew was in effect and the Michigan National Guard patrolled the streets. Amid the chaos, three young African American men were murdered at the Algiers Motel. Paramount. In four theaters, Paramount/Participant Media’s documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power starring Al Gore put up an impressive $3.

K theater average from four runs in New York and Los Angeles or $1. K. Gore made an appearance at Los Angeles’ The Landmark for Q& As over the weekend.

The studio, which launched the movie at the Sundance Film Festival, hopes the doc will benefit at the B. O. as an environmental beacon in these anti- environmental Trump America times.

The first movie, An Inconvenient Truth, won two Oscars for best doc and best song, and accumulated $2. M- plus at the domestic box office, which was quite impressive. Studio reported estimates as of Sunday AM for the weekend of July 2. Dunkirk (WB), 3,7.

M Fri./$1. 1. 3. M Sat/$8. M Sun/ 3- day cume: $2.

M (- 4. 4%)/Total: $1. M/Wk 2. 2.). The. Emoji Movie (SONY), 4,0.