Box Office Top 20: 'War Room,' Redford pic top 'Compton'

Box Office Top 20: 'War Room,' Redford pic top 'Compton'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Straight Outta Compton" ceded its three-week reign at the top of the box office to the faith-based "War Room," which climbed to No. 1 with $13.4 million over a sleepy Labor Day weekend.

The Robert Redford buddy dramedy "A Walk In The Woods," based on Bill Bryson's Appalachian Trail memoir, also inched past "Compton" to take second place with $10.9 million, according to final figures reported by studios Tuesday.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Tuesday by Rentrak:

"War Room," Sony, $13,388,558, 1,526 locations, $8,774 average, $28,702,016, 2 weeks.

Impossible Rogue Nation, Paramount, $9,425,519, 2,849 locations, $3,308 average, $182,662,211, 6 weeks.

"Gift, The," STX Entertainment, $3,371,675, 1,591 locations, $2,119 average, $40,389,687, 5 weeks.

"Jurassic World," Universal, $3,330,520, 1,571 locations, $2,120 average, $647,374,160, 13 weeks.

Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.