HOLLYWOOD – “Dunkirk” and “Girls Trip” are opening above expectations at the box office, while “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” looks like a huge flop.

Christopher Nolan’s World War II film “Dunkirk” is flying past earlier projections. The movie’s production budget was reportedly just under $100 million, although earlier reports speculated that it was much higher.

Meantime, “Girls Trip” follows a foursome — Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish, and Jada Pinkett Smith — who go out for a long overdue women’s weekend to New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival.

“Valerian,” Luc Besson’s big-budget adaptation of the French comic series from his own EuropaCorp, and distributed in the U.S. by STXfilms, looks like a real clunker. The sci-fi epic has landed in fifth place.

“War for the Planet of the Apes” is in fourth. That’s behind “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” in third. (Source: Variety)

Story Date: July 29, 2017