While American Made achieved a site average close to £2,000, fellow debutants Logan Lucky and Detroit both managed per-cinema numbers in the £1,500 ballpark.
After The Mummy rather humiliatingly failed to land the UK top spot on its release in June, Tom Cruise now makes it second time lucky this summer with the chart-topping arrival of American Made.
All figures relate to takings in UK and Ireland cinemas.
Those numbers are nothing for distributors StudioCanal and eOne to celebrate, but neither are they embarrassments.