We Are Your Friends Bombs in Theaters as Compton's Winning Streak Continues

Posted on August 30, 2015

Straight Outta Compton won the box office for the third consecutive weekend this weekend. It made $13.2 million to bring its total gross to $134 million. This was not a strong weekend in U.S. theaters overall. Compton managed to stay just ahead of War Room, a drama starring Priscilla C. Shirer and T.C. Stallings.

War Room made $11 million in 1,135 theaters for a strong per theater average of $9,692. It was followed by Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation which fell just 27.5% from the week before. Mission: Impossible added $8.3 million to bring its gross to $170 million after five weekends in theaters.

No Escape opened in fourth and made just $8.3 million. In the film, starring Owen Wilson and Lake Bell, a family finds themselves stranded in a Southeast Asian country in the middle of a coup. No Escape was followed by Sinister 2, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hitman: Agent 47 and The Gift (2015). Jurassic World continues to add to its already impressive sum. It made another $3 million to bring its total gross to $643 million.

We Are Your Friends had one of the worst openings in history. It made just $1.8 million in 2,333 theaters for a very low $772 per theater average. Zac Efron plays DJ Cole Carter in the film which also stars Wes Bentley and Emily Ratajkowski. It has a low C+ CinemaScore.

You can view the box office chart for the weekend here. To bring its winning streak to four Straight Outta Compton will have to defeat The Transporter Refueled, A Walk in the Woods and Before We Go next weekend.

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