After garnering <a href="http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/straight-outta-compton-garners-s242-million-in-opening-day-sales-news.17078.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">$24.2 million at the box office on Friday</a>, &#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; closed out its opening weekend with $56.1 million in sales.
The movie&#8217;s opening weekend was not only exemplary, it was historic. It had the biggest August opening ever for an R-rated film, far surpassing the $45.1 million 2001 opening of &#8220;American Pie 2.&#8221; It was also the best opening ever for a music biopic, outstripping &#8220;Walk the Line&#8221; ($22.3 million) and &#8220;8 Mile&#8221; ($51.2 million). 
&#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; dominated the competition, as weekend runner-up &#8220;Mission: Impossible &#8212; Rogue Nation&#8221; netted $17 million in its third weekend and &#8220;The Man From U.N.C.L.E.&#8221; debuted with $13.5 million. 
&#8220;Compton&#8221; has already doubled its $29 million budget, so even the studio execs are thrilled. Shoutout to <a href="/profile/IceCube" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Ice Cube</a>, <a href="/profile/DoctorDre" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Dr. Dre</a>, director F. Gary Gray, and everyone else involved with the project.<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/_/status/632946519256133632" rel="nofollow noopener">https://twitter.com/_/status/632946519256133632</a>
 

[<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/08/16/straight-outta-compton--man--uncle-box-office/31711259/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">via</a>] <h2>Item #1</h2><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img decoding="async" src="https://editor.urbanlinx.net/wp-content/uploads/gallery/32/18/1439761832_35487f9e044028d91738e0a3822c4c4c.jpg" alt='"Straight Outta Compton" Rakes In $56 Million In Historic Opening Weekend'></figure>