Box office top 20: 'Dark Tower,' 'Detroit' struggle

NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow's race-riots docudrama "Detroit" struggled to find a wide audience, while the poorly reviewed Stephen King adaptation "The Dark Tower" finally arrived to middling results.

Sony Pictures' "The Dark Tower," starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, still managed to take the top spot in North American theaters with a $19.2 million debut. That pushed Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" to second with $17.1 million in its third weekend of release, according to final box-office figures Monday.

"Detroit," Bigelow's ambitious reconstruction of the 1967 uprising, opened in more than 3,000 theaters after a limited release last week. Despite largely strong reviews, "Detroit" — the first film distributed by Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures — debuted in eighth with $7.1 million.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by comScore.

1. "The Dark Tower," Sony, $19,153,698, 3,451 locations, $5,550 average, $19,153,698, 1 week.

2. "Dunkirk," Warner Bros., $17,135,246, 4,014 locations, $4,269 average, $133,090,984, 3 weeks.

3. "The Emoji Movie," Sony, $12,005,409, 4,075 locations, $2,946 average, $49,107,113, 2 weeks.

4. "Girls Trip," Universal, $11,401,495, 2,582 locations, $4,416 average, $85,426,515, 3 weeks.

5. "Kidnap," Aviron Pictures, $10,016,323, 2,378 locations, $4,212 average, $10,016,323, 1 week.

6. "Spider-Man: Homecoming," Sony, $8,845,978, 3,116 locations, $2,839 average, $294,953,754, 5 weeks.

7. "Atomic Blonde," Focus Features, $8,157,555, 3,326 locations, $2,453 average, $34,037,930, 2 weeks.

8. "Detroit," Annapurna Pictures , $7,125,601, 3,007 locations, $2,370 average, $7,641,083, 2 weeks.

9. "War For The Planet Of The Apes," 20th Century Fox, $6,169,134, 2,704 locations, $2,281 average, $130,449,389, 4 weeks.

10. "Despicable Me 3," Universal, $5,429,735, 2,445 locations, $2,221 average, $240,920,645, 6 weeks.

11. "Baby Driver," Sony, $2,573,956, 1,424 locations, $1,808 average, $97,074,886, 6 weeks.

12. "Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Plan," STX Entertainment, $2,395,377, 1,795 locations, $1,334 average, $36,137,260, 3 weeks.

13. "Wonder Woman," Warner Bros., $2,286,334, 1,307 locations, $1,749 average, $399,432,413, 10 weeks.

14. "The Big Sick," Lionsgate, $2,163,021, 1,005 locations, $2,152 average, $33,927,449, 7 weeks.

15. "Jab Harry Met Sejal," Yash Raj Films, $1,284,740, 280 locations, $4,588 average, $1,284,740, 1 week.

16. "Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, An," Paramount, $961,193, 180 locations, $5,340 average, $1,113,564, 2 weeks.

17. "Cars 3," Disney, $539,750, 477 locations, $1,132 average, $147,620,695, 8 weeks.

18. "Wolf Warrior 2," Well Go USA, Inc., $506,961, 32 locations, $15,843 average, $1,110,380, 2 weeks.

19. "Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2," Disney, $453,768, 252 locations, $1,801 average, $388,399,203, 14 weeks.

20. "Wish Upon," Broad Green Pictures, $314,485, 345 locations, $912 average, $13,774,273, 4 weeks.