Straight Outta Compton wins weekend box office by huge margin

                         This weekend the R-rated musical biopic about the groundbreaking rap group N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton earned a huge $56.1 million.It was the sixth-biggest August debut ever, the tenth-biggest R-rated debut of all time, and double the previous best debut for a musical biopic.Straight Outta Compton was already the 14th biggest musical biopic movie after a single day of release, and after today it will be the fourth biggest, not adjusted for inflation. Within the week it will pass Coal Miner’s Daughter ($67m) and Ray ($75m) to become second only to Walk the Line.

 

 

                               The other new release The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is struggling at the box office as it has earned in its opening weekend less then the third weekend of Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation.The $80 million Warner Bros. /Time Warner Inc. adaptation of the 1960′s spy TV series earned $13.535 million in its opening weekend.