00:00There are 400,000 men on this beach.
00:05Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk stormed the box office with a better...
00:10than expected $50.5 million domestic debut over the weekend.
00:14This marks the...
00:15the best opening in recent memory for a World War II film.
00:18Overseas, the critically acclaimed movie...
00:20was also impressed with a global assault of $105.9 million.
00:24Still...
00:25While Dunkirk will need sizable staying power in order to make up for a net production
00:28budget of $100 million...
00:30and a major marketing spend, the film recounts one of World War II's most famous battles...
00:35and stars Finn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Brenna, Killian Murphy...
00:40Tom Hardy, Jack Loden, and One Direction's Harry Styles, who makes his acting...
00:45debut in the movie.
00:46Heading into the weekend, many box office pundits predicted that Dunkirk would have...
00:50trouble crossing the $40 million mark, considering its subject matter.
00:54They readily admit...
00:55they were wrong...
00:56AKA, don't underestimate Christopher Nolan fans...
00:58or Harry Styles fans...
00:59In addition...
01:00to strong reviews, Dunkirk earned an A-cinema score from audiences.
01:04It skewed...
01:05heavily male...
01:0660 percent...
01:07while 76 percent of all ticket buyers were over the age of 20.
01:10Like Dunkirk, Girls Trip came in ahead of expectations to claim the number two spot at the...
01:15domestic box office with $30.4 million.
01:18That's the best showing for an R-rated comic...
01:20comedy in two years...
01:21and the best showing for any live-action comedy so far this year.
01:25Over decades, Hollywood studios have operated on the premise that a film featuring a black
01:29cast wouldn't necessarily...
01:30reach and play to a broader audience.
01:32But now, moviegoers are taking matters into their own hands.
01:35Challenging that assumption and proving Hollywood wrong.
01:38The movie stars Regina Hall, Tiffany...
01:40Kaddish, Jada Pinkett Smith and Queen Latifah...
01:42as lifelong friends who go to New Orleans for a...
01:45raunchy weekend of fun, the film nabbed a coveted A-plus cinema score.
01:50The Universal President of Domestic Distribution said,
01:53Girls Trip is a bold film.
01:54The characters are...
01:55highly relatable and the story speaks a universal language.
01:58Girls Trip was made for roughly 20 minutes...
02:00a modest amount compared to the budgets for Dunkirk and the weekend's third new nation
02:05wide release, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
02:08The sci-fi epic cost...
02:10$580 million.
02:11But crash landed in the U.S. with a $17 million debut.
02:15Valerian is based on the French graphic novel series,
02:18and stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Dele...
02:20Levine as celestial cops who must travel through space and time...
02:23in order to save the universe.
02:25The film received a B-minus cinema score.
02:27The ambitious movie hopes to make up ground over...
02:30overseas, where it grossed $6.5 million from its first 16 markets.
02:34Germany...
02:35Germany was the only major territory.
02:36For the latest box office news, check out THR.com.
02:39And make sure to like...
02:40let me know what you saw over the weekend in the comments.
02:43I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.
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