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With “Ebenezer”, rapper Ice Cube joins the long list of actors (including George C. Scott, pictured right) to take on the miserly role of Scrooge.

And thanks to a third consecutive week atop the Hollywood’s scorecard, “Straight Outta Compton” has earned its place in history as the highest-grossing music biopic ever, according to a report in USA Today.

With “Straight Outta Compton” nearing $100 million at the box office and receiving critical praise, it’s no surprise that studio execs were looking for a way to team up with Cube and Jackson.

When N.W.A.’s first single hits big, Eazy is wooed by manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), who, for reasons that are never made clear, only signs a contract with Eazy, leaving the other members of the group in indefinite limbo, even as they grow into a national phenomenon,...

“Straight Outta Compton” starts in the mid-1980s, long before band member Dr. Dre had become a music industry mogul and Ice Cube had started making movies. This is a full-fledged, big-budget looking homage to the L.A. rap scene that smartly, emotionally and...

Ahead of the film’s opening, Universal Pictures offered to reimburse theaters who opted to hire extra security over the weekend, which could be in response to this year’s latest theater shooting incident in Alabama.

Movie theaters taking heightened security measures over Straight Outta Compton’s debut weekend will be able to have those expenses paid back by Universal Pictures, according to multiple reports.

Dre said his critically acclaimed third studio album was inspired by the sounds and sights of his iconic hometown. Straight Outta Compton, which chronicles the rise and fall of hip hop group N.W.A. (a lineup that consisted of Dr. Dre, Arabian Prince, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, DJ Yella,...

The N.W.A. biopic broke records with its $56.1 million haul at the weekend box office, more than doubling expectations set by Universal earlier in the week, according to tracking firm Rentrak.

O’Shea Jackson Jr. plays his father, Ice Cube in the highly anticipated film, Straight Outta Compton. Movies like Jurassic World, Furious 7, Fifty Shades of Grey and Minions have all made stupid amounts of money this year, but the studio has also found more modest success...

The actors made a rap album together.

“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.

In efforts to promote the “Straight Outta Compton” N.W.A. biopic set to hit theaters next week, Beats gave the public a #StraightOutta meme generator to celebrate the occasion.

“We gotta stick together and all that s-“.

The director of “Straight Outta Compton” says he’s “very happy with the accuracy” of the movie that depicts the creation and eventual breakup of influential rap group N.W.A. It more than peripherally touches on the strained relations between young...