Dunkirk has moved past the $400 million milestone at the worldwide box office.
Christopher Nolan’s WWII drama, Dunkirk, has been over performing at the box office this summer, accumulating $172 million at the U.S. box office, and in the process making Christopher Nolan the fifth highest grossing director of all time.
This tidy sum, which should end up somewhere around the $185 million mark, has helped Dunkirk accumulate a very tidy $412 million across all territories. Dunkirk is still to be released in big markets like China and Japan, so that number will climb further still.
Depending on how kindly China take to the picture, the film could possibly pass the $500 million mark as well.
Nowhere has Dunkirk thrived more than in the U.K., however, with the movie about the evacuation of over 300,000 men from a French beach, now sitting at $63 million.
This is an impressive number indeed and means that the film has earned more money in Nolan’s home market than big summer blockbusters like Wonder Woman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Spider-Man: Homecoming.
Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.”
Dunkirk sees Christopher Nolan directing a cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Tom Glynn-Carney and newcomer Fionn Whitehead.
Originally published August 29, 2017. Updated April 16, 2018.
