Straight Outta Ideas. Photo: Universal Pictures Now that Straight Outta Compton has become the highest-grossing music biopic of all time, taking the top spot at the box office for three consecutive weeks, some are beginning to ask: Can you turn rap history into a cinematic universe?
Straight Outta Compton: Regia di F. Gary Gray. Con O'Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.. Il gruppo rap NWA emerge dalle strade di Compton a Los Angeles negli anni 80 e rivoluziona la cultura hip-hop con la loro musica.
During tonight's airing of the 57th Grammy Awards, a new trailer for the forthcoming N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton was revealed. The new clip features an introduction from Dr. Dre and Ice Cube with a cameo from Kendrick Lamar. Watch it below. Straight Outta Compton is out August...
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Even when Gray (who made his feature debut directing the real Ice Cube in the stoner-slacker classic “Friday”) puts “Compton” through the somewhat familiar biopic paces, he brings a richness of observation to the table that transcends cliche. (The exhaustively researched screenplay is credited...
Update: Universal announced in a statement that the biopic will be released in theaters on Aug. 14th, 2015.In April, F. Gary Gray, director of the upcoming N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, staged an open casting call to find actors to play the principal roles. Asked what he was lo...
Universal Pictures is moving forward with an N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, and has tapped Jonathan Herman to pen the latest draft.
Universal Pictures announced Wednesday that its N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” will be released on Friday, Aug. 14, 2015 — a slot originally reserved for the next “Bourne” film, which has been pushed to 2016. Universal also confirmed the film’spreviously rumored castand released...
A gourmet, wide-canvas take on the woebegone rise-and-fall musician biopic we’ve all seen a hundred times, F. Gary Gray’sStraight Outta Comptonwas doomed to contain multitudes: It’s a steely un-action picture about police racism, a liner-notes history of West Coast gangsta rap, a mus...
For a movie about a groundbreaking, risk-taking group like N.W.A., “Straight Outta Compton” is surprisingly conventional in its adherence to music biopic tropes. The rise-fall-rise-again structure, the groupies and the drugs, the beefs over money and acclaim and the general mayhem that ge...