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O’Shea Jackson Jr. was with Ice Cube and he pointed to the great injustice that had been done with regard to his person just because of the color of his skin.

But along comes “Straight Outta Compton” and suddenly the box office picture is looking to be all good again.

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.

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,...

Common’s N.W.A. biopic earned an astonishing $56.1 million in its debut, in accordance with studio estimates Sunday.

“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...

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.

In seventh was the raunchy comedy Vacation, about a family holiday gone awry which stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate and Chevy Chase, with $5.3 million. But along comes “Straight Outta Compton” and suddenly the box office picture is looking to be all good again.

Co-financed by Universal and Legendary, the film stars O’Shea Jackson Jr. as his real-life father, Ice Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dr.

A week after the album drops, the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton will follow suit in theaters.

The shotgun blast of fury that first emanated from South Central Los Angeles in 1988 still packs a punch.

“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.

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...