THE WEEKEND ACTUALS

	Film	Weekend	Opening Weekend	Current Gross
	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation	$28.502 million	$55.520 million	$107.757 million
	Fantastic Four	$25.686 million	$25.686 million	$25.686 million
	The Gift	$11.854 million	$11.854 million	$11.854 million
	Vacation	$8.955 million	$14.681 million	$37.135 million
	Ant-Man	$7.911 million	$57.226 million	$147.522 million

Continuing a string of disappointing box office opening weekends, Fantastic Four might be the roughest of them all. At a rumored $120 million budget, Four limped to a pitiful $25.7 million over the weekend. It managed to make double that worldwide, drawing in $34.1 million in foreign markets. In case you were curious, in the history of Marvel comics adaptations, this means it opened somewhere in the midst of the Blade trilogy. Fantastic Four‘s reviews have only gotten worse the longer it’s in theaters, dropping to a laughable 8% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes (and 24% from users).

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation claimed the top spot for its 2nd week out, falling less than 50% from last weekend. The spy movie sits at $107.8 million domestically and $264.5 million globally, keeping it right in line with its big box office predecessors. Thriller flick The Gift exceeded expectations, pulling in $11.9 million, putting it ahead of Blumhouse’s last opening The Gallows.

Vacation lagged behind, bringing its total to $37 million in its second weekend, and Ant-Man is getting closer and closer to $150 million after its first full month out. Minions placed 6th with $7.4 million, and newcomer Ricki and the Flash followed in 7th with $6.6 million. Trainwreck, Pixels, and Southpaw rounded out the top 10, and Aardman’s stop-motion Shaun the Sheep Movie opened at a pitiful, bleeting $4 million.

This weekend, we get Straight Outta Compton and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Compton tells the story of hip-hop legends N.W.A. and their controversial first album. Directed by F. Gary Gray, Compton has received positive reviews so far, and early tracking has been stellar. Guy Ritchie’s U.N.C.L.E. is an adaptation of the same-named ’60s American spy TV show. As always, the review embargo is making everyone a bit nervous about U.N.C.L.E. Ritchie’s directing is always a mixed bag of critical reviews, from acclaimed Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, to the almost-universally panned Swept Away and Revolver. It’s more than likely this latest foray will fall somewhere in the RocknRolla or Sherlock Holmes 2 category– solidly mediocre.

(Sources: boxoffice.com, rottentomatoes.com. Starred figures are estimates. Tweets represent figures for this week only. Figures represent numbers at time of writing, and may have changed.)

Parker Mills | Contributor