Straight Outta Compton Top of Box Office

One of N.W.A.’s founding fathers has conflicting feelings about the biopic Straight Outta Compton.

What do you think, was the extra security for Straight Outta Compton justified or was the movie, like so many people, a victim of the way america views Black lives.

Great reviews were also useful, especially since the movie received an 88 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, a rating that is extremely good for an R&B film.

The film earned million on opening weekend, a record for an R-rated film.

Judging by the huge audience and largely positive response at the official Academy screening for Straight Outta Compton on Saturday night, the movie, which details the rise of N.W.A., might just be this year’s first big contender for an Oscar.

CNN ran a segment on Monday reporting that there wasn’t violence at movie theaters during the opening weekend of the hip-hop oriented film Straight Outta Compton.

Meanwhile Australian cinema-goers have to wait until 27 August to check the film out upon its national cinema release, however this week’s ARIA Charts are telling of fans’ anticipation.

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Producer Dr. Dre and his wife Nicole Young pose at the premiere of “Straight Outta Compton” in Los Angeles, California. Twenty years later, N.W.A.’s story has proven to be a massive hit for moviegoers, and the film has raked in approximately million dollars, a figure that is spectacularly close to Ant-Man’s $57.2-million opening last month.

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