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 The weekend's leader is "The Dark Tower." Sony
and MRC's long-time-coming Stephen King adaptation starring
Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey is landing on a modest $19.5
million from 3,451 locations. Made for about $66 million
counting reshoots, the story centers on a boy (played by Tom
Taylor) who discovers another dimension where he aligns himself
with a Gunslinger (Elba) on a mission to save the world from
various enemies, including the Man in Black (McConaughey).
Critics mostly panned the movie, leading to its current 18
percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile, Annapurna's "Detroit" is not faring as well as
expected. Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's latest collaboration
should end up with $7.3 million from 3,007 locations this
weekend. Combined with a week of limited release grosses, its
total should stand at $7.8 million. An awards-season push could
end up helping its bottom line. So far, critics are on board,
earning the tale of the Motor City's 1967 riots a 96 percent on
Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is toplined by "Star Wars" breakout
John Boyega, as well as Will Poulter, and Algee Smith.
That leaves "Kidnap" -- from David Dinerstein's
recently-launched Aviron, and Lotus -- which is racing to $10.2
million from 2,378 locations. The movie stars Halle Berry as a
mother attempting to rescue her son after he is taken. Aviron
acquired the film from a bankrupt Relativity, but the
distributor declined to release the thriller's acquisition cost,
making it difficult to judge its performance.
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"Dunkirk," the box office winner the past two weekends, is sliding
comfortably into second with $17.6 million from 4,014 locations.
Christopher Nolan's World War II movie crossed the $300 million mark
on Saturday, and by the end of the weekend should tally a $133.6
million domestic total. This weekend it looks to make about $4
million from Imax screens alone, which will count for $29.8 million
of the movie's domestic grosses. Warner Bros. also continues to see
profits from "Wonder Woman," which will land right up against the
$400 million domestic milestone by the end of this weekend.
In limited release, TWC's "Wind River" should make $164,167 from
four locations. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen,
and marks Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut. Sheridan conceived
the movie as part of a loose trilogy that also includes two recent
releases that he wrote, but did not direct, "Sicario" and "Hell or
High Water."
All this on the calendar spot that last year's "Suicide Squad"
bucked conventional release date wisdom with a record-breaking
$133.7 million domestic opening. This summer has lagged overall due
to a number of big-budget movies flopping or underperforming, and
this latest showing will only put the business farther behind.
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