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Box Office Weekend: Straight Outta Compton Goes Straight Up the Chart

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation may still be doing decent enough business in its third week with an estimated $17 million, but the movie of the weekend is the critically acclaimed biopic Straight Outta Compton. With an estimated $56.1 million, the rise of rapping sensations N.W.A. led the weekend in a big way, much more so than the lackluster opening of the mildly acclaimed The Man from U.N.C.L.E., whose estimated $13.5 million Straight Outta Comptonis a rough start for director Guy Ritchie and his adaptation of the 1960s television show.

Fantastic Four is still not revealing any budget numbers, but at an estimated $8 million for a second weekend, it is likely flopping, even counting an uptick in foreign box office. Not so for The Gift, whose $5 million budget was topped with an estimated $6.5 million in a second weekend, and its $23.5 million and growing total is not too shabby (in terms of percentages, anyway). Ant-Man, in the meantime, earned an estimated $5.5 million for the weekend, and while still dragging its feet compared to other Marvel entries, it is a worldwide success and doing quite admirably considering the character is lesser known compared to other Marvel entries.

Vacation has ridden a sea of vast criticism, but an estimated $5.3 million has given the film $46.8 million in domestic earnings, which could potentially be a respectable amount, given the genre if only the budget numbers were released for comparison. Minions, on the other hand, is perfectly happy revealing its numbers, with an estimated $5.2 million adding a cherry on top of a grand $313 million domestic haul and nearing a billion in worldwide gross.

In the final two spots, Ricki and the Flash fell to ninth with an estimated $4.6 million, and with no budget released, the TriStar production should be hoping for a low budget to make its $14.7 million in earnings a worthwhile amount. Trainwreck, though, is far from its namesake, the Judd Apatow comedy raking in $97.9 million in gross so far, with a weekend estimate of $3.8 million just making things even better.

Weekend Box Office (August 14th – August 16th)

  1. Straight Outta Compton…$56.1 million
  2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation…$17 million
  3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.…$13.5 million
  4. Fantastic Four…$8 million
  5. The Gift…$6.5 million
  6. Ant-Man…$5.5 million
  7. Vacation…$5.3 million
  8. Minions…$5.2 million
  9. Ricki and the Flash…$4.6 million
  10. Trainwreck…$3.8 million

Seth Paul

When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."
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