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Variety later reported that the film was expected to bring in $49 million its opening weekend.

Films like “Pitch ideal 2” and “Straight Outta Compton” found audiences from groups that aren’t always represented at the cineplexes – and those films exceeded box office projections.

With its unflinching look at race relations in America, box office smash “Straight Outta Compton” is a cinematic jolt that incinerates old prejudices about what kind of movies are commercially viable.

It’s the kind of opening usually reserved for so-called “tentpole movies” that trade in costumed heroes and special effects, not urban violence.

“He picked her up by her hair and “began slamming her head and the right side of her body repeatedly against a brick wall near the stairway” as his bodyguard held off the crowd with a gun”, wrote Rolling Stone.

A meme generator designed to promote the upcoming Straight Outta Compton movie went viral on Twitter this week, spawning the hashtag #StraightOutta as Twitter users joked around with their own N.W.A.-themed art overlaid with a customizable “Straight outta _” label.

Hugh Grant’s wickedly amusing turn as Waverly, British head of the organization that’s slowly being formed, also enlivens proceedings, while it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the background of multiple scenes, as when his lead actors are failing to land their...

“His temples are streaked with gray and Wayne Manor is little more than a desolate husk, overtaken by weeds and water-stains after years of neglect”, the site wrote. His take on the caped crusader is “at the end of his run, and maybe the end of his life....