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Box Office Weekend: Straight Outta Compton Wins Again

Seth Paul
Box Office Weekend

Critics are raving about it, and audiences agree – Straight Outta Compton is a winner, with a second weekend in the first-place spot with an estimated $26.8 million. Domestically, it has made $111.5 million, gaining ground on Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which took in an estimated $11.7 million in its fourth week and $157.8 million in domestic gross. While neither is a certified success (only three films in the top ten this week have released their budget costs), Straight Outta Compton is likely one, as is Sinister 2. Though far less well-received than the original Sinister, at an opening estimate of
$10.6 million, it has likely done very well, considering the original film only cost $3 million to make, and even doubling that budget, Sinister 2 may well break even by next weekend. Still, Straight Outta Comptonwith all of those faults, it still stands head and shoulders above Hitman: Agent 47. With bottom-scraping reviews and an opening even lower than the previous Hitman movie (estimated $8.2 million), it is likely the video game adaptation will bomb out big time.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. enters its second week with an estimated $7.4 million, though whether it is a success or not is completely up in the air, considering Guy Ritchie films, from indie darlings to blockbusters, have been surprisingly tight-lipped about costs. American Ultra, on the other hand, may wish it had a low budget as it debuts with middling results and an estimated $5.5 million.

In the realm of winners, The Gift still performs well on its relative scale with an estimated $4.3 million, bringing in a domestic total of $31.1 million on a $5 million budget. Ant-Man and its estimated $4.1 million still looks rough domestically, but worldwide has done well against its $130 million costs. But neither film holds a candle to Minions, whose $74 million budget has been toppled. With an estimated $3.7 million weekend, it has made $320 million locally and has become the top film of the Despicable Me series when counting worldwide totals, with $989.4 million taken in.

In tenth, Fantastic Four has plummeted to the bottom, with an estimated $3.7 million and a domestic total of $49.6 million. While it has done some business worldwide, chances are the troubled production is likely not going to see a sequel anytime soon.

Weekend Box Office (August 21st – August 23rd)

  1. Straight Outta Compton…$26.8 million
  2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation…$11.7 million
  3. Sinister 2…$10.6 million
  4. Hitman: Agent 47…$8.2 million
  5. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.…$7.4 million
  6. American Ultra…$5.5 million
  7. The Gift…$5 million
  8. Ant-Man…$4.1 million
  9. Minions…$3.7 million
  10. Fantastic Four…$3.7 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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