TriStar's faith-based drama "War Room" emerged triumphant at the box office on one of the slowest Labor Day weekends on record.
Although it pulled in a modest $12.6 million over the four-day weekend, it was enough to unseat former reigning box office champ, Universal's "Straight Outta Compton," which landed in the No. 2 spot with an estimated $11.1 million after three weekends at the top. That brings the popular N.W.A biopic's total domestic take to an impressive $150 million.
"War Room," which is about a woman who turns her closet into a "war room" in order to regain her spiritual footing in a quest to save her rocky marriage, is representative of the resolute history faith-based films have enjoyed at the box office.