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Musical film "Straight Outta Compton" beat the rest to be No. 1 at box office

Xinhua, August 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

"Straight Outta Compton" opened in the number one position at the north American box offices this weekend, with an estimated 56 million U.S. dollars in ticket sales.

The Universal Picture sold more tickets than the next six movies combined this week, according to studio estimates gathered by Rentrak.

Opening in 2,757 theaters, "Straight Outta Compton" made a remarkable 20,345 dollars per screen average. The 28 million dollars made musical film "Straight Outta Compton" is based a rep group called N.W.A. it became the biggest August opening ever for an R-rated film, and it has become the No. 1 musical biopic.

Moviegoers gave "Straight Outta Compton" an "A" grade on audience polling firm CinemaScore. Critics marked 88 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film played well among younger moviegoers which is about 51 percent of ticket buyers were younger than 30, and black audiences made up to 46 percent. On gender classification, about 52 percent of the audience was female.

"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" finished in distant second place, with a 17 million dollars total sales result in its third weekend. After leading the box office for each of the past two weekends, the fifth installment of the Tom Cruise led blockbuster franchise from Paramount was down a very solid 40 percent on ticket sales. It has grossed 138 million dollars through 17 days since released.

Based on the 1960s TV series in United States, "The Man From U. N.C.L.E.," opened in third place, far behind the rap music movie, with 13.5 million dollars in estimated sales. Warner Bros. released that their film, "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," was on 3,638 locations and made 3,720 on each one.

The Guy Ritchie directed spy comedy starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer received a respectable "B" rating on CinemaScore and critics gave it a 67 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film's audience skewed slightly towards male moviegoers (52 percent) and skewed older audience (86 percent were older than 25).

Rounding out the rest top 10 movies in the United States and Canada this weekend were "Fantastic Four" (8 million), "The Gift" (6.5 million), "Ant-Man" (5.5 million), "Vacation" (5.3 million), "Minions" (5.2 million), "Ricki And The Flash" (4.6 million) and " Trainwreck" (3.8 million). Endite