AUGUST 31 UPDATE: With no real pretenders to usurp it, Universal’s Straight Outta Compton held on to top berth for the third consecutive weekend and climbed to $134m.

Straight Outta Compton

TriStar’s drama War Room opened in second place on $11.4m, an excellent result given the stated $3m production cost, while TWC pick-up No Escape with Owen Wilson, Lake Bell and Pierce Brosnan arrived at number four on $8.1m.

Paramount-Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation slipped one place to number three and has reached $170.2m and is doing well considering the $479.2m global tally.

Universal’s Jurassic World grossed $3m from 1,239 sites for $642.9m. Fox’s Hitman: Agent 47 fell to number seven in its second session and has grossed a dismal $15.6m, while the ill-fated Fantastic Four dropped out of the top ten in its fourth weekend and stands at a miserable $52.7m.

Warner Bros’ The Man From U.NC.L.E. has amassed a lowly $34.1m and ranks sixth in its third weekend. The Gift continues to perform well for STX Entertainment given its stated $4m budget and ranks number ten on $35.8m after four.

Zac Efron starrer We Are Your Friends opened outside the top 12 via Warner Bros on $1.8m. Distribution chiefs and StudioCanal will doubtless talk up the film’s ancillary potential, however the US theatrical debut is a certified flop given the sizeable 2,333 theatre count.

Turbo Kid opened via Epic Pictures Releasing on $50,000 from 38 venues.

Roadside Attractions opened Sundance selection Z For Zachariah on $56,902 from 29 sites, while Oscilloscope opened The Second Mother on $24,086 in three sites. IFC debuted Queen Of The Earth on $11,360 in two.

Overall box office for the top 12 generated $68,887,912 and dropped 19.3% against last weekend and fell 21.9% against the comparable session in 2014.

The summer blockbuster season, currently tracking 1.8% ahead of its 2014 counterpart, officially ends over Labor Day next weekend. The wide releases are EuropaCorp’s The Transporter Refueled and Bill Bryson adaptation A Walk In The Woods via Broad Green starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte.

Confirmed top 10 North America Aug 28-30, 2015
Film (Dist) / Conf wkd gross / Conf total to date
1 (1) Straight Outta Compton (Universal) Universal Pictures International $13.1m $134m

2 (-) War Room (TriStar) $11.4m –

3 (2) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Paramount) Paramount Pictures International $8.2m $170.2m

4 (-) No Escape (TWC) Sierra/Affinity $8.1m $10.2m

5 (3) Sinister 2 (Focus Features) Blumhouse International $4.7m $18.5m

6 (5) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Warner Bros) Warner Bros Pictures International $4.4m $34.1m

7 (4) Hitman: Agent 47 (Fox) Fox International $4.2m $15.6m

8 (8) Ant-Man (Disney-Marvel Studios) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International $3.1m $169.2m

9 (-) Jurassic World (Universal) Universal Pictures International $3m $642.9m

10 (7) The Gift (STX) Universal Pictures International/Blumhouse International $3m $35.8m

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