Box Office Top 20: 'Compton' dominates, Efron movie flops
Box Office Top 20: 'Compton' dominates, Efron movie flops
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The faith-based family drama "War Room" outshone its competition despite a relatively quiet release, taking the second place spot with $11.4 million from only 1,135 locations.
The PG-rated film lost the top spot to "Straight Outta Compton," which is still playing in over 3,000 theaters, but flew past its modest $3.5 million budget on a relatively limited number of screens.
Warner Bros.' electronic dance music drama movie "We Are Your Friends" bombed with only $1.8 million, making it one of the worst openings of all time for a film in wide release.
Starring Zac Efron, "We Are Your Friends" cost a modest $6 million to produce, but Warner Bros. only spent $2 million to acquire it.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Rentrak:
"War Room," Sony, $11,351,389, 1,135 locations, $10,001 average, $11,351,389, 1 week.
"Gift, The," STX Entertainment, $3,004,313, 1,934 locations, $1,553 average, $35,830,756, 4 weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.