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Well, that didn’t take long.

“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.

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

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

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...

Dr. Dre and Ice Cube are such legends in the hip-hop world that it’s easy to forget both rappers once sang together in the same group. Allegedly spurred by negative comments made about the group on the show, the beating was co-signed by N.W.A. members Eazy E and MC Ren....