Victory for ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Girls Trip’ at box office

LOS ANGELES — It’s victory for “Dunkirk’’ at the box office this weekend. Studios on Sunday say the Christopher Nolan World War II epic earned an estimated $50.5 million to top the charts, with $11.7 million of that coming from IMAX screens.

The well-reviewed Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish and Jada Pinkett Smith comedy “Girls Trip’’ also beat expectations, taking second place with $30.4 million. Audiences were 79 per cent female and gave the film a coveted A+ Cinemascore.

Not so successful was Luc Besson’s $180 million sci-fi epic “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets,’’ which earned $17 million from North American theatres over the weekend.