‘Straight Outta Compton’ debuts at No. 1 with $56.1 million

Films like “Pitch ideal 2” and “Straight Outta Compton” found audiences from groups that aren’t always represented at the cineplexes – and those films exceeded box office projections.

Though his tweet suggested his role was underrepresented in the film, MC Ren has also tweeted praise of Compton, writing the cast and crew did a “Great job of telling our story”.

The film opened to $24.1 million on Friday, including its Thursday night screenings; it corralled $19.3 million on Saturday and took in an extra $16.8 million on Sunday.

N.W.A members included Ice Cube and Dr Dre, shocking the world in 1988 with their debut album Straight Outta Compton which dealt with a brutally honest depiction of life in Southern Los Angeles. “The good news here is it attaches to a product that we’re exceedingly proud of”. The film “ranks as the fifth biggest August opening in history and the biggest debut for an R-rated film during the month,” according to a report in Variety. There has been more than 5 million downloads of the image with the hashtage #StraightOutta trending on social media.

It comfortably leaped ahead of the number two film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which brought in $17 million over the weekend. Rounding out the top five was the psychological thriller “The Gift” which added another $6.5 million to its tally. And once the trailer to the Dr. Dre production landed, we all couldn’t wait for its release. The modish version that ultimately made it to screens was directed by Guy Ritchie and stars Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer.

As noted by Yahoo, according to Goldstein, the Warner Bros.

The 7 percent who did turn out gave the film a favorable A- CinemaScore, and Goldstein hopes that word of mouth will spread in the coming weeks.

It was the ultimate match-up between West Coast (Straight Outta Compton’s NWA) and very much east (since The Man From U.N.C.L.E. takes place in Germany and Italy, which Team America would tell you are several thousand miles east of California), won handily by the rappers.

But its Universals weekend to celebrate once more in what has become a banner year for the studio.

Produced by Dr. Dre the movie cost just $29 million to make and grossed over $60 million in its opening weekend.