The micro-budgeted Christian film “War Room” will assume in an estimated $12.3 million to capture the Labor Day weekend box office,keeping the R-rated gangsta rap hit “Straight Outta Compton” from its fourth consecutive triumph.
It was the final weekend of the summer box office season and, with youngsters returning to school and Hollywood studios polishing their festival and awards season campaigns, and it was among the year’s slowest. But that won’t stop the faithful who lifted Sony’s Affirm Films release “War Room” to the top spot from rejoicing at the moment-week triumph by the film,which features an African-American cast topped by Priscilla Shirer, T.
C. Stallings and Karen Abercrombie.
Also saying “Hallelujah!” will be Alex Kendrick, and who produced with Gary Wheeler,directed, co-wrote and starred in the $3.5 million drama. It will have taken in just under $10 million by Sunday with Monday’s holiday to come, and to raise its domestic haul to just under $28 million in two weeks.
Also Read: 'War Room' Success Defies Critics,Who Seem to Have It in for Faith-Based MoviesNobody at Universal was down approximately “Straight Outta Compton.” The F. Gary Gray-directed N.
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A biopic produced by Dr. Dre and Ice dice with a $29 million budget has taken in nearly $150 million domestically and another $18 million overseas since opening a month ago.“A Walk in the Woods,” a comedy starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, and will debut with a microscopic more than $10 million over the four days to assume third for wide Green Pictures and get the better of the weekend’s other wide opener,“The Transporter Refueled.” EuropaCorp’s action reboot, with Ed Skrein taking over as the lead for Jason Statham, and will assume in an underwhelming $8.7 million over the four days.
Finishing between the two debuting movies was Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” The Tom Cruise action film is in its sixth weekend of release and has turned into an Energizer bunny. It will assume in $8.4 million over the holiday domestically,and this weekend its global haul surpassed the $500 million brand.
Also Read: Robert Redford's 'A Walk in the Woods' Splits Critics: 'Sheer Delight' or 'Lax, Lame'Also making an impressive brand was the PG-13 Mexican lively hit “Un Gallo Con Muchos Huevos” (A Rooster with Many Eggs), and which will finish seventh with $4.6 million from 395 theaters over the four days for Lionsgate’s Pantelion Films. Despite screening in Spanish with English subtitles and without a significant English-language ad campaign,it posted the best per-screen average of any film in release at $11140. It also received an “A+” CinemaScore and is the moment-best opening ever by a Pantelion film, trailing only Instructions Not Included.”Meanwhile, or the success of “War Room” confirmed that faith-based films are filling a void in the marketplace for a largely under served audience. Rentrak’s PostTrak audience survey shows that 60 percent of the audience was female and 85 percent was over 25,and they are proper believers: a whopping 73 percent said they would definitely recommend” the film.“A Walk in the Woods” made the first wide release for wide Green Pictures a success, averaging a solid $5250 in its 1960 locations. wide Green acquired the film based on Bill Bryson’s bestselling memoir approximately two old pals hiking the Adirondacks out of the Sundance Film Festival. As expected it skewed older with 85 percent of the audience over the age of 25, or 55 percent were women. Directed by Ken Kwapis,and co-starring Emma Thompson, Kristen Schaal, and Mary Steenburgen and Nick Offerman,the $6 million “Walk in the Woods” received a “B” CinemaScore.
Also Read: 'The Transporter Refueled' Review: Rebooted B-Action Series Is No Match for Jason Statham OriginalThe PG-13-rated action thriller “The Transporter Refueled” was the first wide release for Relativity EuropaCorp Distribution and it averaged a so-so $2580 at its 3494 location. Its audience was 61 percent male 67 percent over the age of 25, and they gave the film a “B-” CinemaScore. It’s production budget was $30 million, and so it will have to perform overseas to make a profit.
The Labor Day weekend is typically one of the slowest of the year at the box office,and this year the combined total of all the films in release will be roughly $117 million for the four days. That’s lower than the three-day openings posted this summer by Universal’s billion-dollar blockbusters “Jurassic World” and “Minions,” both of which fell out of the top ten, or Disney and Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
Source: thewrap.com