Straight Outta Compton Dominates Box Office!!!
Universal has yet another hit on their hands with the N.W.A. biopic film since F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton Dominates Box Office.
Straight Outta Compton made $56M in 2,757 theaters, a remarkable $20,345 per screen average.
CelebNMusic247.com has this report via BoxOfficeMojo:
Straight Outta Compton takes over the first position for the weekend box office easily besting the other wide release, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which is under-performing with an estimated $13.5M.
The Top 12, at $133.6M, is up 4% from last year when The Expendables 3 shocked many by opening in 4th place with $15.9M, beaten not only by holdovers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy but by the other newcomer to the schedule, Let’s Be Cops, which opened to $17.8M.
If Compton ends up with actuals of $56M that would make it the sixth best August opening of all time, coming in ahead of 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes with $54M but behind Signs with $60M in 2002. The well-reviewed bio-pic of the rap group N.W.A., was produced, along with others, by original band members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre, as well as by their director, F. Gary Gray.
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Internationally, Compton has only opened in Trinidad and other Caribbean Islands but domestically the film just helped Universal cross $2 billion at the box office on Saturday. That demolishes, by four months, the previous record, formerly held by Warner Bros., which reached that milestone just at the end the year, on December 25, 2009.
Speaking of Warner Bros. their film, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, was on 3,638 screens and made a not-hip $3,720 on each one. The quirky but undeniable charms of Guy Ritchie’s film just couldn’t be communicated to wide audiences, even with three up-and-coming stars attached like Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander and a reported production budget of $75M. That figure probably didn’t include all of the other costs associated with the long-gestating reboot of the 1964-1968 TV show.
In holdovers, that very same actor’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation continued to hang on, making $17.3M, taking a gentle 39% decrease from last week, and claiming the #2 spot on the box office chart. On 3,700 theaters the film has a domestic cume of $138.4M.
We saw both Straight Outta Compton and The Man from U.N.C.L.E, but Compton Reigns Supreme this weekend. U.N.C.L.E is wickedly entertaining and one of Guy Ritchie’s best, but on a scale of audience desire we have a feeling it will grow by word of mouth and DVD sales.
Warner Bros. should have waited to release U.N.C.L.E until next week, because EVERYONE wants to see the trails and tribulations of the world most notorious gangster rap gourp N.W.A. – They should have NEVER under estimated the thirst to see Straight Outta Compton.
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