After being famously snubbed at the “all-white” Oscars, “Straight Outta Compton” won for best true story at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards this weekend.

For years, Ice Cube wanted to make a movie about the seminal gangsta rap group N.W.A. And for years, that movie resisted him, beset by production delays and full-on tragedy.

One of the summer’s most entertaining and provocative movies, F. Gary Gray’s “Straight Outta Compton’’ provides timely context to one of the most inflammatory songs of the 20th century ...

Now, it's hit an even more important milestone: with over $200 million in worldwide box office receipts, Straight Outta Compton is now the highest-grossing film ever to have a Black director.

After being famously snubbed at the “all-white” Oscars, “Straight Outta Compton” won for best true story at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards this weekend.

This movie burns so hot that it’s bound to run out of steam. It does. But not so much that you ever want to leave its danger zone. Straight Outta Compton is epic, baby, an explosively ...

This recut trailer shows that "Straight Outta Compton" would have to be about Paul Giamatti’s character to score more Oscar nominations.

Screenwriter Jonathan Herman has described Eazy-E as the “soul of the movie.” Eazy’s widow, Tomica Woods-Wright, gave him the context for the script.

A successive string of hits from Universal Pictures has put the movie studio far ahead of its Hollywood rivals this summer. So far in 2015 the studio has collected $5.76 billion in box office ...

Before the N.W.A. biopic is released in theaters on Aug. 14, check out 10 Things We Learned From the 'Straight Outta Compton' Movie.

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON 3 stars, out of 5 Snapshot: A musical biopic charting the rise and fall of the hip-hop pioneers N.W.A., a Los Angeles music group credited as founders of the "gangsta" rap ...