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WW2 Epic “Dunkirk” Steals The #1 Spot At Weekend Box Office

The new film about a heroic evacuation mission during World War Two is this weekend’s top movie.  “Dunkirk” got the #1 spot earning over 50-million-dollars in the U.S. and Canada.  Coming in…

Members of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) withdraw to England from Dunkirk during World War II, 1940. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

(Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The new film about a heroic evacuation mission during World War Two is this weekend's top movie.  "Dunkirk" got the #1 spot earning over 50-million-dollars in the U.S. and Canada.  Coming in second is the comedy "Girls Trip," which sold just over 30-million-bucks' worth of tickets in its first week in theaters.  "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is in third place before last week's top film "War for the Planet of the Apes."