Zac Efron [WB]
Zac Efron’s tepidly reviewed EDM film “We Are Your Friends” predictably got off to an abymal got off to an abysmal start at the box office.
The film earned a mere $725,000 in Friday receipts. The tally, which amounts to an average of just $311 per screen, positions “Friends” at #12 on the Friday box office chart.
The chart’s leader is religion-oriented film “War Room,” which earned $3.875 million from its semi-wide 1,135 screen count ($3,414 per screen). It narrowly edges “Straight Outta Compton” ($3.830 million) on the Friday chart.
“Compton” is nonetheless expected to overtake “War Room” by the end of the weekend. It will thus top the weekend box office for a third straight weke.
New release “No Escape,” Friday’s #3 film, earned a soft $2.440 million. “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation” ($2.180 million) and “Sinister 2” ($1.400 million) followed at #4 and #5, respectively.