Weekend Report -'Compton' Another Universal Smash - Box Office Mojo
Weekend Report -'Compton' Another Universal Smash
by
Keith Simanton
August 16, 2015
Universal is estimating that
Straight Outta Compton made $56M in 2,757 theaters, a remarkable $20,345 per screen average.
Compton easily bested 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.
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.
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or maybe i just wasn't influenced by the hype and wasn't blown away by the film
my only critique was it's a joke to portray NWA as rebels against corrupt authority cause they made one song criticizing the police harrasment(most likely for shock value) when their checks were signed by whitey and the brunt of their content was the glorification of black on black genocide
at Snoop getting into it with them bloods them hopping right into the booth like that shyt didn't just happen 