Given the box office success of Straight Outta Compton, it’s no surprise that Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the hip-hop market, and according to THR, agency APA has put together a package based upon S. Leigh Savidge’s book and documentary Welcome to Death Row, which it is shopping around as a sequel to Compton. […]
Straight Outta Compton producer talks ‘white washing’ Oscar nominations, “we have to do better”
The Oscar nominations once again reared the Twitter trend of #OscarsSoWhite, noting that very few of the nominations were for people of colour. Straight Outta Compton producer Will Packer took to Facebook to write this empassioned speech asking for the Hollywood industry to “do better” in bringing more work from filmmakers of colour. “But who […]
Second Opinion – Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Straight Outta Compton, 2015. Directed by F. Gary Gray. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr., Marlon Yates Jr. and Paul Giamatti. SYNOPSIS: The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and […]
Straight Outta Compton earns a whopping $56.1 million
It’s been getting rather positive reviews (read ours here), and now the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton has become another big money-winner for Universal, who are already having a great year. Made on a reported budget of just $28 million, Straight Outta Compton went straight to the number one spot with a whopping $56.1 million […]
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. stumbles at the box office with just $13.5 million
Warner Bros. was probably expecting a warmer reaction to the big screen reboot of the classic TV show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., but sadly the film has under-performed at the box office. Opening on 3,700 screens, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. made just $13.5 million, opening third behind Universal’s Straight Outta Compton and Mission: Impossible – […]
