I love when Hollywood realizes there’s a huge audience out there for films like Straight Outta Compton. I worry about biopics all the time, and I was worried Compton would suffer the same generic fate. But thanks to its timeliness, we finally have a biopic, let alone a hip hop film, that works.
That effort was rewarded with $56 million dollars while the two spy films Rogue Nation and The Man from UNCLE came up ith $17 and $13 million respectively.
Here are the box office performances for the August 14-16 weekend.
[via Rentrak]
1. Straight Outta Compton – $56,091,165
2. Rogue Nation – $17,000,000
3. Man from UNCLE – $13,535,000
4. Fantastic Four – $8,000,000
5. The Gift – $6,500,000
6. Ant-Man – $5,517,000
7. Vacation – $5,330,000
8. Minions – $5,161, 200
9. Ricki and the Flash – $4,570,000
10. Trainwreck – $3,836,160
