The film has been slammed for glossing over its members treatment of women and the blowback forced Dr. Dre to apologise for his actions.
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Of the new films hitting multiplexes, “Sinister 2” performed the best of an inert bunch. Yet projections from Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter and Variety all have Sinister 2 as the top new release, with anywhere from $14-18 million.
“Straight Outta Compton” will again dominate the domestic box office this weekend with early estimates Friday showing a sturdy $26 million at 3,025 locations for its second frame.
This weekend, both Compton and Universal’s comedy Trainwreck reached the $100 million milestone.
If the estimates hold, Universal/Legendary’s N.W.A biopic looks likely to take in double the closest competition – Focus/Gramercy’s launch of horror sequel “Sinister 2” with about $13.3 million at 2,766 theaters.
Hitman: Agent 47 was supposed to be a reboot of the 2007 version. American Ultra Jesse Eisenberg kicks ass – that’s basically the set up of this film. Its total domestic tally is now at $158-M. More specifically its about a stoner loser who finds he’s actually a sleeper agent who is really, really good at killing people. It reunites Eisenberg with Kristen Stewart, his co-star from 2009’s “Adventureland“. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation also topped the charts two weekends in a row beforehand, yet its second straight win was an upset over Fantastic Four.
Fox’s video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 earned an estimated $8.2 million in its debut for fourth 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. “Even if it falls over 50% this weekend, it will still do close to $30 million – which would be a good opening weekend for a film opening in August”.
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In the specialty sphere, Grandma, starring Lily Tomlin, earned $120,856 this weekend from 4 locations. The Orchard fielded Joe Swanberg’s off-beat mystery “Digging for Fire” on-demand and on three screens where it earned an estimated US$24,544. And August, 2014, saw impressive launches for “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”.
