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| Subject: Take that, FigaroFatz: Straight Outta Compton stuns US box office Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:56 pm | |
| The N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, backed by a sophisticated marketing campaign, touched a cultural nerve over the weekend, taking in $US56.1 million at the domestic box office, an astounding total for an R-rated drama.
That blockbuster result - it beat the debuts of big-budget summer movies like Terminator Genisys and Mad Max: Fury Road - positions the strongly reviewed Straight Outta Compton to become one of the biggest dramas of the year. It cost Universal and Legendary Entertainment about $29 million to make. Universal's success with Straight Outta Compton was a humiliation for Warner Bros., which passed on the opportunity to make the biopic. It was considered risky in part because of its racially charged subject matter.
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