NEW YORK (AP) — The groundbreaking Los Angeles rap act N.W.A. will join a quartet of 1970s era FM radio rockers — Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller — as 2016 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. N.W.A., led by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, was elected after three unsuccessful […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ensemble nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards highlight diversity in both film and television, including nods for “Beasts of No Nation,” ”Straight Outta Compton,” and “Orange is the New Black.” Yet, individual nominations, especially for movies, remained largely white — only adding to concerns this will be yet another monochromatic […]
Movies that reflect the revolutionary undercurrent running through society dominated this year’s voting for the 7th AAFCA Awards. Straight Outta Compton, the surprise summer box office hit centered on the 90’s rap group N.W.A., captured an overwhelming majority of the votes cast by members of the association. The Universal Pictures film earned multiple awards for […]
Ice Cube sat down for The Hollywood Reporter’s Producer Roundtable to discuss his experience making Straight Outta Compton, the box office monster about his rap group NWA. “Seeing it about to fall apart, at many different times,” was the most painful part of making the film, Cube said. He and co-producer Dr. Dre, each brought […]
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 […]
Suge Knight might not be able to get many messages through while he’s in jail awaiting his murder trial, but he’s trying his best. While in court yesterday, Knight wanted to wish his six-year-old son a happy birthday. He wrote “Happy birthday Legend” on a piece of paper, and waited for the TV camera operator […]
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 […]
Dr. Dre’s son, Curtis Young, has confirmed to XXL magazine that there will be no sequel to “Straight Outta Compton,” which has banked close to $150 million at the box office – a figure that usually inspires studio heads to greenlight a pitch for an additional installment. However, the surprise success of “SOC” has, […]
"Straight Outta Compton" topped the box office for the third week in a row and made history as the highest grossing musical biopic ever.
NEW YORK (AP) — Straight Outta Compton marked three consecutive weekends atop the box office, while the Christian drama War Room proved an unexpected success. Universal’s N.W.A biopic grossed an estimated $13.2 million over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. The only other film to lead the box office three straight weeks this summer was Jurassic […]
There may be more good news in store for Straight Outta Compton‘s Jason Mitchell. The actor is currently in talks to join the cast of the…
