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tomatometer:

89% Straight Outta Compton

93% Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation

12% Sinister 2

07% Hitman: Agent 47

67% Man From U.N.C.L.E

45% American Ultra

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Box Office: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Schools ‘Sinister 2,’ ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ With $26.8 Million

“Straight Outta Compton” dominated a trio of underwhelming new releases this weekend, providing a little proof of life in an otherwise moribund box office.

The rap drama topped charts for the second weekend in a row, picking up $26.8 million from 3,025 locations and propelling its domestic haul to $111.5 million. That’s a tidy return on the $29 million that Universal and Legendary spent making the film about the early days of N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” hasn’t been without controversy. The film has been slammed for glossing over its members treatment of women and the blowback forced Dr. Dre to apologize for his actions. The negative headlines do not appear to be taking a toll on its ticket sales.

Of the new films hitting multiplexes, “Sinister 2” performed the best of an inert bunch. The low-budget horror sequel nabbed $10.6 million from 2,766 locations for a third place finish. That’s less than the $14 million to $16 million that Focus Features, the studio behind the film, had been expecting to pull in, and it also trails the first “Sinister’s” $18 million opening. “Sinister 2” might not make much money, but it cost less than $10 million to make, limiting the studio’s financial exposure. Ticket buyers were 51% female and 57% over the age of 25.

Fox’s “Hitman: Agent 47,” a second attempt to transform a popular video game series into a successful film one, hit a speed bump, earning a meagre $8.2 million across 3,261 locations. It had been expected to generate $11 million in receipts. Swapping “Justified’s” Timothy Olyphant for “Homeland’s” Rupert Friend as the titular assassin didn’t provide much sizzle, as the latest “Hitman” failed to match the $13.1 million opening of its 2007 predecessor. “Hitman: Agent 47” cost $35 million to bring to the screen, and attracted an opening weekend audience that was 61% male and 60% over the age of 25.

That left Lionsgate’s “American Ultra” as the lowest performing of the newbies. The marijuana-encrusted secret agent film went up in smoke, grabbing $5.5 million from 2,778 locations, and securing sixth place. The film centers on a stoner (Jesse Eisenberg) who discovers he is really a crisped version of Jason Bourne. It reunites Eisenberg with Kristen Stewart, his co-star from 2009’s “Adventureland,” and fielded an audience that was 56% male and 65% over the age of 25.

All three films carried R-ratings and catered to adult crowds, something that may have depressed their results.

“At the end of the day, they cannibalized each other,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s distribution chief. “It’s an unfortunate confluence of events. All three of those films combined would have made a decent opening for any one of them.”

Among holdovers, Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” had a second place finish with $11.7 million. The fifth film in the spy series has earned $157.8 million stateside. “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” an attempt to revive a television show few remembered, earned $7.4 million in its second weekend, edging out “American Ultra” for fifth place. The action film has earned $26.6 million domestically thus far, signaling it will have trouble recouping its $75 million production budget barring a surge in pop culture nostalgia among foreign crowds.

In the art house world, Sony Pictures Classics scored a solid debut for “Grandma.” The comedy about a grandmother helping her granddaughter find the money to pay for an abortion has earned rave reviews for its star Lily Tomlin. It picked up $120,856 on four screens, for per screen average of $30,214.

The Orchard fielded Joe Swanberg’s off-beat mystery “Digging for Fire” on-demand and on three screens where it earned an estimated $24,544.

Broad Green, the newly created distribution company from brothers Gabriel Hammond and Daniel Hammond, launched its first in-house production with “Learning to Drive.” The comedy is pitched at older crowds and stars Sir Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson. It grossed $67,417 from four locations for a per-screen average of $16,854. The company was particularly pleased that the film picked up steam as the weekend rolled on, indicating that word-of-mouth is strong. It will expand to four additional markets next weekend.

“We always saw the first three weeks as basically a series of previews,” said Travis Reid, Broad Green’s president of distribution. “We knew the movie needed to get established, because it’s a film that audiences really, really respond to.”

And “Trainwreck” checked an important milestone off its list, as its $2.5 million weekend gross pushed the comedy past the $100 million mark after six weeks in theaters.

Overall ticket sales were down roughly 7% from the year-ago period when “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” were still drawing healthy crowds. The box office is now sliding into a doldrums it won’t be roused from until films like “Black Mass” and “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” hit theaters in mid-September.

“It’s a slow time,” said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst at BoxOffice.com. “People are on vacation or generally busy outside, so studios shy away from opening something that they have confidence in.”

Welcome to the dog days of summer.

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[shira]

Fantastic 10th

 

[hamchan]

Wow I didn't realize that Hitman movie was THAT terrible.

 

[Anth0ny]

 

[Miles Quaritch]

Holy shit at the number of theatres have dropped FF already.

Everyone's cutting their losses and heading for the hills.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

So Jurassic World's gonna leave first run with 640 domestic.

Can it make 20 mil on that one-week IMAX re-release?

 

[Nobility]

Eazy-Duz-It

Will Fantastic even chart next week? Damn.

 

[Oddduck]

Universal stays winning this year.

I saw Straight Outta Compton on Friday and really enjoyed it.

 

[ryseing]

UNCLE deserves better. Very fun movie.

Cruise missile keeps on winning.

 

[Abounder]

I need to see SOC, love the legs for the Cruise Missile

Can it make 20 mil on that one-week IMAX re-release?

Probably not.

 

[kunonabi]

Lily Tomlin has a new comedy out? I need to see that.

 

[bluelightningduo]

Antman bringing in more in week 6 than Fantastic 4 in week 3 is fitting.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

$35m is gonna be a nice result for The Gift, considering is supposed $5m budget. Marketing couldn't been too high.

 

[Banjotanooki]

Soooo...Disney's working hard on getting F4 back, right?

 

[TheYoungHeroRises]

Fantastic Four? More like the Fantastic Flop am I right?

What a godawful piece of shit that was, glad to see the movie is bombing and people are staying away.

On a more positive note though who's excited for Deadpool next year?

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Soooo...Disney's working hard on getting F4 back, right?

Disney probably doesn't give a shit one way or the other.

Marvel might be having a talk or two with Fox later, but those talks would probably already be happening due to Fox wanting to clear an X-Men live-action TV show.

 

[Dr. Feel Good]

Is Inside Out really number 2 of all time?

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pixar2014.htm

 

[kswiston]

So Jurassic World's gonna leave first run with 640 domestic.

Can it make 20 mil on that one-week IMAX re-release?

No. I would have to check but I don't think that it's IMAX take during that first weekend was much more than 20 mil

 

[vinnygambini]

Wait for it.......

Terminator Genisys nabs massive $26.6M Opening Day In China (4th biggest opening)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/08/23/box-office-terminator-genisys-opens-with-massive-26-6m-in-china/

 

[FTF]

Is Inside Out really number 2 of all time?

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=pixar2014.htm

lol no, BOM screwed up and lists its OS as $2.1b atm.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Go home, BOM. You're drunk.

EDIT: Beaten as I tried to take a screen grab, lol.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

2.4 billion for Inside Out, damn good movie, congrats Pixar on the comeback

 

[mreddie]

Standing on the top on the number one spot
Aw shit! Here comes the motherfucking comp!
So I dash, I duck, and I hides behind a tree
Making sure the Hitman don't see me
Now Sinister wanna fight, hell yeah I stuffed 'em
Kristen Stewart near my wall, I had to pause
And yeah, it's still muthafuck 'em
Now my game is tight, tight as fuck is my game
Eazy-Motherfucking-E or Eric Wright it's all the same
Now these fools might trip on how I stacks my grip
I got to have it bitch

For the love of this shit
MOTHERFUCKER!!

 

[Abounder]

Wait for it.......




http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2015/08/23/box-office-terminator-genisys-opens-with-massive-26-6m-in-china/

All hail China. Dammit WB what are you doing with Fury Road

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Is Inside Out really number 2 of all time?

What a WEIRD mistake. I think Inside Out's international take is somewhere close to 400 mil? Maybe?

Certainly not TWO BILLION.

All hail China. Dammit WB what are you doing with Fury Road

Probably not releasing it in China so they can release Genisys there instead.

 

[Black Republican]

Hope nwa gets a sequel

 

[TheYoungHeroRises]

2.4 billion for Inside Out, damn good movie, congrats Pixar on the comeback

Someone had a little too much vodka when talling up the numbers for Inside Out lol.

See Hollywood well made original properties can succeed and make bucket loads of money.

Congrats to Pixar for returning to their usual awesomeness they truly deserve all the success for this amazing movie.

 

[GCX]

What a WEIRD mistake. I think Inside Out's international take is somewhere close to 400 mil? Maybe?

Certainly not TWO BILLION.

Yeah, especially since Inside Out still hasn't opened in some big markets like China, Germany and Italy.

 

[Slayven]

Holy shit at the number of theatres have dropped FF already.

Everyone's cutting their losses and heading for the hills.

IS that a record?

Eazy-Duz-It

Will Fantastic even chart next week? Damn.

Does Kaybee Toys bargin bins tracks sales?

Hope nwa gets a sequel

Title should be "No Vaseline"

 

[BronsonLee]

I'd like to officially congratulate Inside Out on their incredible foreign box office take

 

[Takao]

I guess this new Hitman movie snuck up on people.

 

[Abounder]

Fantastic Four? More like the Fantastic Flop am I right?

What a godawful piece of shit that was, glad to see the movie is bombing and people are staying away.

On a more positive note though who's excited for Deadpool next year?

Craptastic 4 still managed to pass 100m ww which is kind of amazing. Huge flop but goes to show that even a turd will sell in the age of Mahvel

Probably not releasing it in China so they can release Genisys there instead.

Damn if that's the case WB should've replaced Jupiter Ascending, in hindsight anyway lol

 

[vinnygambini]

WW Updates:

Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation: $438.5 million
Terminator Genisys: $353 million

Terminator should easily reach $450 million+, most likely enough to greenlight a sequel but on a tighter budget (think Pacifim Rim 2).

MI5 continues it's great hold among key markets - should easily outgross MI4 with China.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

 

[gatti-man]

Straight outta dinero. Damn good to see Soc killing the charts.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

The only good thing that might come from China saving Genisys is that a lower budget might force the filmmakers to try making a Terminator movie that's actually scary again. A 60-70 million horror film starring a single killer robot might actually get people interested in the series again, in a way NOTHING since T2 has done.

 

[BronsonLee]

China was never going to 'save' Mad Max, I don't know why that keeps coming up
It didn't even need saving

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Soooo...Disney's working hard on getting F4 back, right?

From what I hear Disney wants to pay next to nothing for Fantastic Four since the brand has been poisoned by Fox. There basically waiting for Fox to give it to them for free.

 

[ninjabat]

Damn, terrible opening for Agent 47. But very surprised to see its production budget was that small. Should make its money back internationally, even though it doesn't deserve it.

 

[DMczaf]

Gimme mah sequel

 

[vinnygambini]

Even better according to Deadline:

In its first day of Chinese release, Terminator: Genisys did enough business to thrust it back to the top of the international chart — a position it hasn’t inhabited since early July. Day One in the Middle Kingdom today kicked in $27.4M

http://deadline.com/2015/08/international-box-office-terminator-genisys-china-mission-impossible-rogue-nation-minions-inside-out-hitman-agent-47-uncle-results-1201503912/

 

[NastyBook]

Marvel might be having a talk or two with Fox later, but those talks would probably already be happening due to Fox wanting to clear an X-Men live-action TV show.

Ooh, it's back scratching time.

 

[Slayven]

The only good thing that might come from China saving Genisys is that a lower budget might force the filmmakers to try making a Terminator movie that's actually scary again. A 60-70 million horror film starring a single killer robot might actually get people interested in the series again, in a way NOTHING since T2 has done.

The franchise can only benefit from a tighter focus. Unless they do another tv show where they can flesh shit out.

Sad how every Dr.Who that comes to America gets done kind of dirty. David Tenneant will save them.

 

[OctoMan]

Any realistic properties Fox would want from Disney to trade for?

 

[crimsonspider89]

Any realistic properties Fox would want from Disney to trade for?

X-Men tv series but Fox has to realize first and foremost this isn't the early 2000s.

 

[faridmon]

Glad to see MI5 Still raking in.

Cruise Missile will never be stopped

 

[Bobby Roberts]

From what I hear Disney wants to pay next to nothing for Fantastic Four since the brand has been poisoned by Fox.

Where'd you hear that about Marvel? So far as I can tell nobody's actually talking about anything yet. Everyone knows Fox wants an X-Men show, and Fox & Marvel will have to knock out a deal if they're going to get it, but so far as I can tell nobody's actually heard shit about any particulars, especially since FF splat-packed.

I mean, it makes perfect sense that Marvel would lowball, but I don't know that anyone's actually heard that's what's going on yet.

 

[Rosur]

UNCLE deserves better. Very fun movie.

Cruise missile keeps on winning.

Yea UNCLE was great fun.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

Wow Hitman bombed, like really hard.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Does Kaybee Toys bargin bins tracks sales?

KB is dead.

 

[alexandros]

How is Ant-Man doing worldwide?