![]() It has grossed $23.6 million to date, which is decent considering the Blumhouse production cost a reported $5 million to make. STX Entertainment‘s psychological thriller The Gift, starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, and director Joel Edgerton, held upmuch better in its second weekend, down 45% with $6.5 million to settle into fifth place. That’s on par with second-week drops for other poorly-reviewed superhero movies like Fox’s Elektra and Ang Lee’s The Hulk, but its $42 million gross so far and the fact that it’s unlikely to even gross $80 million domestically is not a good sign for 20th Century Fox going ahead with a sequel. ![]() Paramount Pictures‘ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nationdropped to second place with an estimated $17 million, down 40% in its third weekend, as its domestic total is now $138.1 million.Ģ0th Century Fox‘s Fantastic Fourtook a massive plunge in its second weekend, down 69% to $8 million for fourth place. Maybe it was a bad idea to open it so soon after Tom Cruise’s own spy movie Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and U.N.C.L.E.‘s “B” CinemaScore from moviegoers isn’t a good sign that it will be hold up against the multiple action movies opening on Friday. Things didn’t go as well for Warner Bros.‘ period spy flick The Man from U.N.C.L.E., directed by Guy Ritchie ( Sherlock Holmes) and starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Hugh Grant and more, which opened with just $13.5 million in 3,638 theaters, an average of $3,711 per location, which is significantly below all projections. Night Shyamalan’s Signs as the fifth-highest opening for an August release. UPDATE: Universal Pictures is now reporting that Straight Outta Compton brought in $60.2 million in actual box office for the weekend after Sunday did far better than originally projected. ![]() It also scored the highest August opening for an R-rated film and with an “A” CinemaScore and a surprising 52% female audience, it’s likely to continue to do well over the rest of the summer leading into the generally slower September and October months. and Paul Giamatti, Straight Outta Compton scored $4.9 million in Thursday previews and $24.2 million on Friday including those previews. Its estimated $56.1 opening weekend makes it the highest-opening biopic ever, even surpassing the $51 million opening of Universal’s Eminem drama 8 Mile back in 2002. Gary Gray and starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr. This weekend they released the hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton, based on the rise and fall of L.A.’s premiere gangsta rap group N.W.A, which was another monster hit for the studio. In fact, Universal’s movies have grossed the company over $2 billion just in North America, so obviously they would already be having a great year and summer. In a year where we already have five movies grossing over $300 million (with the last “Hunger Games” and the first new “Star Wars” still on the way), Universal Pictures can claim three of those, including the third-highest grossing movie of all time in Jurassic World. Universal Pictures’ NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton won the weekend at the box office with $60.2 million
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