F. Gary Gray

The Fate of the Furious set box office records with weekend with the eight installment of the movie opening over Easter weekend. But it also puts one Black director in a company by himself. Shadowandact.com reports:  “The Fast and the Furious” was the No. 1 film this weekend with $100.2 million, which is by any […]

Universal’s “Straight Outta Compton” has set another record. The N.W.A. biopic, helmed by F. Gary Gray, just crossed the $200 million mark at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing movie from an African American director ever. The film’s current domestic gross is $161.1 million; its international gross will be $38.9 million by end […]

Well that didn’t take too long. A day after it was reported that Straight Outta Compton’s F. Gary Gray was a finalist to direct Furious 8, it’s been made…

Director F. Gary Gray has officially become the highest-grossing black director of a single film in domestic sales, with his hit film Straight Outta Compton bringing in an estimated $157.5 million in the U.S. and Canada. Gray has surpassed Keenen Ivory Wayans’ classic Scary Movie, which raked in $157 million back in 2000, and Tim Story’s Fantastic […]

NEW YORK (AP) — “Straight Outta Compton” easily maintained its box-office lead with an estimated $26.8 million in ticket sales over a sleepy late summer weekend at North American multiplexes, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal’s N.W.A biopic, a much buzzed-about hit, dominated over the late August releases that often characterize Hollywood’s dog days of […]

Rapper and journalist Dee Barnes wrote a personal essay following the release of Straight Outta Compton about the exclusion of her assaulted by Dr. Dre. The L.A. Times obtained…

Since the release of the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton which has earned nearly $60 million at the U.S. box office, much talk has been focused on the women who were not only lyrically assaulted by the notorious west coast rappers, but also physically attacked at the hands of rapper/producer Dr. Dre. Dre’s alleged hatred of […]

Recently, Ice Cube performed in Sydney, Austraila where he unveiled the trailer to his anticipated N.W.A biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.” The film stars Ice Cube’ son O’Shea Jackson Jr. (playing Cube), Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre and Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E. Also, it co-stars Carra Patterson, Keith Stanfield and Paul Giamatti as Eazy-E’s widow Tomica […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Universal Pictures and the filmmakers behind the planned N.W.A. biopic are distancing themselves from an offensive casting announcement for the film after social media outrage. The company said in a statement late Thursday that “the filmmakers … did not approve and do not condone the information in this casting notice. We […]