The Christian drama War Room made a surprise bid for the box-office lead, Zac Efron's music drama We Are Your Friends fell completely flat and the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton keeps chugging along. According to studio estimates Sunday, Universal's Straight Outta Compton topped the box office for the third-straight week with $13.2m at North American theatres over the weekend. The late August weekend held scant competition for Straight Outta Compton, but War Room nearly matched it. The Sony TriStar release took in $11m by appealing to faith-based audiences, an often powerful but underserved demographic at the multiplex. War Room is about an African-American family who perseveres through prayer. But thoroughness of the flop of We Are Your Friends was unusual. The Warner Bros. release, an electronic dance music drama, wasn't expected to do especially well and wasn't much promoted.
