Official Weekend Estimates: Straigth Outta Compton - 56.1M; The Man From UNCLE - 13.5M; MI5 - 17.3M; Fantastic Four - 8M

[Gopher]

Forgive me for tooting my own horn a bit, but I just want to mention that I saw a stop motion cartoon about a sheep last week and an R-rated hip hop drama this week. You cannot say I have narrow tastes.

 

I told somebody I was debating Saturday night between seeing Shaun the Sheep and Straight Outta Compton and I actually forgot how crazy that sounded when I said it. 

 

(I'm seeing Shaun this week)

[kowhite]

Universal is on a roll this year! This has been their biggest summer ever in recent memory.

Recent memroy?

How bout...biggest summer EVER.

[Mojoguy]

I told somebody I was debating Saturday night between seeing Shaun the Sheep and Straight Outta Compton and I actually forgot how crazy that sounded when I said it. 

 

(I'm seeing Shaun this week)

You better go see Shaun before it goes STRAIGHT OUTTA theaters.

[DAJK]

You wouldn't believe how many phone calls I had to answer tonight "when are you getting Straight Outta Compton?" It was ridiculous.

Compton is actually helping our ticket sales even though it isn't even playing here. There were a lot of people who came up to the ticket window wanting tickets to Compton. And when I told them we don't have it yet, a lot of them just went to see Man From U.N.C.L.E.

[Mojoguy]

You wouldn't believe how many phone calls I had to answer tonight "when are you getting Straight Outta Compton?" It was ridiculous.

Compton is actually helping our ticket sales even though it isn't even playing here. There were a lot of people who came up to the ticket window wanting tickets to Compton. And when I told them we don't have it yet, a lot of them just went to see Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Poor UNCLE.

[DAJK]

Poor UNCLE.

Well it did benefit. By about 20 tickets but still.

[CJohn]

Compton is gonna win the next 4 weeks as well, lol.

[baumer]

Compton is gonna win the next 4 weeks as well, lol.

 

Compton might not even win next weekend.  

[filmlover]

Compton might not even win next weekend.  

lol wut? None of next weekends openers are even approaching $20M. We are officially entering the dog days of summer.

[baumer]

lol wut? None of next weekends openers are even approaching $20M. We are officially entering the dog days of summer.

 

Just saying it has a chance of not hitting 20 mill.

[WrathOfHan]

These are starting to get old really fast, lol.

 

[CJohn]

Just saying it has a chance of not hitting 20 mill.

[mahnamahna]

Compton might not even win next weekend.  

Why? 

 

Sinister 2 is looking at $13-15 million.

 

American Ultra and Hitman should do sub-$10 million. 

 

MI5 will be  below $15 million.

 

As long as Compton is above $16 million, I'd say it wins the weekend.

[BenedictL11]

Just saying it has a chance of not hitting 20 mill.

Dailies will depend on it but based on its Strong Sunday, I doubt that will miss $20M unless all the 3 openers break out at $20M a piece.

 

The chances of it missing $20M in its 2nd weekend are the same chances as Transporter Refueled breaking the Labor Day record. In other words, sub-$20M is not happening for SOC in its 2nd weekend.

Edited August 17, 2015 by BEEJAYGRAD11

[MrPink]

Just looked at the full estimates and I'd love to champion PHOENIX, one of the best movies of the year, for having good expansions for such a tiny release-- its theater count doubled and its PTA dipped only 20%. Everyone should check it out if they can, it'll leave you so warm and so so cold.

Speaking of warm things, everything seems underestimated (MI5 down -28% sunday, UNCLE -27%) but COMPTON IS DOWN -10% HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP

If not for that Ed Sheeran it would have been flat.

[baumer]

Hey B, heard about this before? Pretty implausible, but still a neat theory. http://joehillsthrills.tumblr.com/post/126865229352/the-lady-the-shark

Just got finished reading the whole article. Sounds pretty seeing if you ask me lol But nothing is impossible I guess. But it's a really interesting article and if it is true all I can say is wow

[The Dark Alfred]

Compton will win next weekend unless MI5 does a sub 20 drop.

[mahnamahna]

Compton will win next weekend unless MI5 does a sub 20 drop.

It will win even with that. MI5 would need at least a 5-7% increase to have a shot at beating Compton next weekend, since $18 million is the lowest I see it going. 

[baumer]

Compton is going to be so incredibly front-loaded that if it wins next weekend I would not be surprised to see it dropped third the weekend after. I hope it has a traffic multiplier but I doubt it gets to 120 million.

[Avatree]

I agree with Baumer, Compton is missing 20M next weekend.