Weekend #s: Straight Outta Compton - 26.8M; Mission Impossible - 11.7M; Sinister 2 - 10.6M; Hitman - 8.2M; American Ultra - 5.5M

[The Dark Alfred]

Sunday projections a bit low, hoping actuals will put MI5 over 12m.

[terrestrial]

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.

More to come…

http://variety.com/2015/film/box-office/box-office-straight-outta-compton-sinister-2-2-1201576428/

[grey ghost]

American Ultra huge bomb

 

The budget was pretty small.

[terrestrial]

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation    $11,700,000    -32%    3,442    -258    $3,399    $157,763,039    4

 

Terminator Genisys    $210,000    39%    236    51    $890    $89,089,591    8  

[CJohn]

Legit laughing at the F4 number.

[terrestrial]

btw, Trainwreck passed the $100m mark (no idea what movie that is, I've still to read up a lot)

 

 

China Box Office ‏@ChinaBoxOffice 5 mins5 minutes ago

#ChinaBoxOffice #TerminatorGenisys opened with est. ￥170M ($26.6M) on Sun, 4th highest opening day gross behind #Transformers4, #Ultron, #F7

[filmlover]

Was Ricki and The Flash pretty much one of the most pointless movies released this year? There only hook was Meryl Streep holding a guitar. Like that is going to make people rush out and go see it. Overlook Meryl Streep sings and plays the guitar whoopte fucking do.

It was actually a nice little movie (with one of Streep's better performances in a while, but then I tend to favor her more low-key performances vs. her more histrionic works), but Sony decided to dump it for some reason (giving it a minimal and nondescript marketing campaign, low theater count, etc.). Could've done around $60M with a better push/marketing.

[grey ghost]

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION took in an estimated $11.7M this weekend. Domestic total stands at $157.76M. #MissionImpossible

 

Aw crap, there goes my "MI5 under 190 m" bet.

 

NWA and Tom Cruise are killing me.

[filmlover]

Also lol at those Max Landis tweets. I never saw Chronicle but why did everyone involved in the film's making go on to become so insufferable?

[mahnamahna]

Sunday projections a bit low, hoping actuals will put MI5 over 12m.

Thinking Compton is a bit low, too. Should inch past $27 million for the weekend. 

[AniNate]

btw, Trainwreck passed the $100m mark (no idea what movie that is, I've still to read up a lot)

 

 

Judd Apatow/Amy Schumer comedy

[terrestrial]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 2 mins2 minutes ago

ANT-MAN: $196.5M Overseas Total / $361.024M Global Total #AntMan

 

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 2 mins2 minutes ago

INSIDE OUT: $347.5M Overseas Total / $689.924M Global Total #InsideOut

 

edit to add:

Ian Sandwell ‏@ian_sandwell 1 min1 minute ago

Inside Out hits the £30m mark in the UK as it again leads over Fri-Sun with a 35% drop in its fifth weekend.

 

 

Edited August 23, 2015 by terrestrial

[Mockingjay Raphael]

R.I.P Summer, just bring me November already

[Jonwo]

Shaun the Sheep is still chugging along nicely, guess it's somewhat found its niche audience. I hope it gets nominated for awards, I think there is enough animated films being released this year to justify four slots.

[WrathOfHan]

Also lol at those Max Landis tweets. I never saw Chronicle but why did everyone involved in the film's making go on to become so insufferable?

 

[terrestrial]

Ant-Man    $4,088,000    -26%    2,016    -290    $2,028    $164,524,370    6    

Inside Out (2015)    $1,665,000    -19%    821    -198    $2,028    $342,423,715    10

[terrestrial]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 46 secs46 seconds ago

MINIONS: $669.4M Overseas Total / $989.4M Global Total #Minions

[terrestrial]

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 3 mins3 minutes ago

JURASSIC WORLD: $983.3M Overseas Total / $1.62287B Global Total #JurassicWorld

 

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 1 min1 minute ago

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $0.17M Overseas Total / $111.65M Global Total #StraightOuttaCompton

 

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 39 secs39 seconds ago

TRAINWRECK: $19.9M Overseas Total / $122.29M Global Total #Trainwreck

 

edit to add:

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice 14 secs14 seconds ago

TED 2: $98.4M Overseas Total / $179.6M Global Total #Ted2

Edited August 23, 2015 by terrestrial

[terrestrial]

Ian Sandwell ‏@ian_sandwell

With $989.4m, Minions is now the third highest grossing animation of all time worldwide. It still has four more territories to open.

[Gokira2012]

SOC -  I think this is the start of the Hip Hop Cinematic Universe