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Victory for 'Dunkirk' and 'Girls Trip' at box office

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Fionn Whitehead in a scene from "Dunkirk."
Image Credit: (Melissa Sue Gordon/Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

LOS ANGELES - It's victory for "Dunkirk" at the box office this weekend. Studios on Sunday say the Christopher Nolan World War II epic earned an estimated $50.5 million to top the charts, with $11.7 million of that coming from IMAX screens.

The well-reviewed Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish and Jada Pinkett Smith comedy "Girls Trip" also beat expectations, taking second place with $30.4 million. Audiences were 79 per cent female and gave the film a coveted A+ CinemaScore.

Not so successful was Luc Besson's $180 million sci-fi epic "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets," which earned $17 million from North American theatres over the weekend.

Exposure was limited, however. Besson's production company EuropaCorp says 90 per cent of the budget was already covered by foreign pre-sales, equity financing and tax subsidies.

News from © The Associated Press, 2017
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