Even with theaters' heightened security and the controversy regarding the film's dismissal of Dr. Dre's well-documented treatment of women, F. Gary Gray's N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton owned its competition this weekend, nabbing $56.1 million.
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation made a comparatively paltry $17.3 million in its third week, bringing its domestic total to $138.4 million so far. Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E., starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, did even worse, only making $13.5 million in its opening weekend.
Hammer, who portrayed the Winklevoss twins in David Fincher's The Social Network in 2010, has a poor track record with blockbusters: He starred as the title character in The Lone Ranger, a film that earned around $260 million on an estimated $375 million budget. For a guy with the best actor name ever, he hasn't had much luck at the box office.
But The Man From U.N.C.L.E. wasn't the biggest disappointment of the weekend. Josh Trank's mega-maligned Fantastic Four dropped a staggering 68.75 percent in its second weekend, barely earning $8 million.
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