The N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton was “one of the biggest surprises” at the box office this season, according to CNN Money.
The F. Gary Gray-directed film hit theaters over the weekend and reportedly brought in an estimated $56.1 million in ticket sales.
Not only did ticket sales for Straight Outta Compton far surpass the estimated $25 million it was projected to bring in, the film also came close to doubling its production budget, which was $29 million.
CNN Money also reports that “the film’s opening success came from minority audiences,” with African-Americans serving as 46% of those who saw the film.
In addition to breaking sales expectations, Straight Outta Compton also welcomed a stream of positive reviews. The film currently boasts a score of 88% on the movie review website, Rotten Tomatoes.
“‘Straight Outta Compton‘ is for Universal yet another example of a perfectly realized distribution and marketing plan that brought an important story to the big screen,” Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak said, according to CNN Money. “Not only did audiences clearly love the film, but critics were on board as well.”
Straight Outta Compton was released on August 14, and tells the story of the rise of the Compton, California-based rap group, N.W.A.
The stereotype is that black people dont buy music (very true for myself) BUT we sure showed up to watch the NWA movie. Showed up like we did to vote Obama in. Doubled their projections because they expected us all to bootleg the movie. It was dope. They did good – AtPerin
And voting for Obama was a complete failure.
Fo sho real suport real
Jawn is a classic.
Five STAR!!! EXCELLENT MOVIE!! Every part of the movie was my favorite!!!
you must like bad acting, a bullshit script, forced emotions, overdramatized bullshit and the WORST 2nd half of a movie ever!!! whoever (dre and cube)approved of this shit needs to be held responsible. shit was cornball all the way through. thank goodness there was Parliament joints throughout–the movie’s only saving grace! this movie was made for white people’s history books (Wikipedia)
Sir Jinx is a hating ass bitch who doesn’t know a good movie when it’s in front of him. Everything in Straight Outta Compton was great.
This movie is (looking for the best word’s) i cannot find the best word’s because the word im looking for is… better than “The madafkn BOMB!!” It bring’s back so many great memories of my child hood.. now living in TX but originally from Cali… it brings back memories of the good ole days… but better yet is the story ot tell’s about the REAL life of back in the days… how it really was and what minorities had to go through.. not only blacks, mexican’s went through the same kind of racist stuff with these cops on power trips… but N.W.A used their voices nd gift to “tell it like it is” and opened up a can of worms that needed to be opened and seen by the world… funny how the people that talk about gang banging end up getting cought up for corruption some where down the line of their “career” N.W.A and so many other rappers took the opportunity to use their voice to let reality be known! Eazy-E trusted that fool of a man because it just happens… we all trust the wrong person once in a while… but regardless of how hard that fool tried to break the crew apart.. he just could’nt… because when you’re from the hood and grow up with these homies that are down with you since day 1… we forgive each other… This movie is “Life stories told” for so many of us… Eazy having Aids opened so many eyes…. even Schools started talking about giving us early sex ed classes starting in junior high… Aids took Eazy’s life but saved many others…
This movie was really good. I enjoyed it. It brought back so many memories that I started listening to the NWA music. Many look at it as negative, but it was just telling on what was going on. Ice Cube son did an fantastic job playing his father!