The new AFI Movie Club Black Stories Matter initiative has made Straight Outta Compton, Get Out, BlacKkKlansman, and more free to rent this week.
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This week, Microsoft released CaptionBot, the company's attempt at showcasing the capabilities of Microsoft Cognitive Services. The promise and potential of CaptionBot is immense. By using natural language capabilities and image recognition software, CaptionBot can analyze any image and tell you what is happening within. CaptionBot joins How Old Do I Look? and What Dog?…
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The 2016 MTV Movie Awards nominations have been revealed and they're exactly what you'd expect, offering nods to the biggest movies of the past year.
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In addition to the usual snubs, there were also some 2016 Oscars surprises that made us pretty happy, especially Mad Max: Fury Road landing 10 nominations.
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Read the WGA Awards nominations 2016 list. Spotlight, The Big Short, and Straight Outta Compton among the titles up for prizes.
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See the full PGA Awards nominations 2016 list. Ex Machina and Sicario got some attention this year, while Room and Carol were overlooked.
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2015's been a weird year for the movie awards race in some ways. Many of the films assumed to be shoo-ins early on have fallen short of their potential, freeing up the field for smaller, quirkier choices. But the race should come into clearer focus over the coming days, as the major awards start announcing their nominations one…
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In celebration of Thanksgiving, we look at 15 movies to be thankful for in 2015, from Mad Max: Fury Road to Spotlight to Creed.
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The new Ghost in the Shell writer is Jonathan Burton, who, fresh off the huge success of Straight Outta Compton, is rewriting the anime adaptation.
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Devindra chats with Wilson Morales, editor of Blackfilm, and Guardian contributor Ben Westhoff about Straight Outta Compton. Spoiler: It's one biopic you won't want to miss. Check out Ben's pieces on the inaccuracies of the film (with a little help from Ice Cube), as well his book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the…
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A Straight Outta Compton sequel is coming, but not from the makers of Straight Outta Compton. Rapper Daz Dillinger says there's plans for a Snoop Dogg film.
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Read the Ava DuVernay Straight Outta Compton review. The Selma director, a Compton native herself, showers praise on F. Gary Gray's N.W.A. biopic.
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See the new Straight Outta Compton trailer and character posters, for the movie adaptation of the true story of the meteoric rise and fall of N.W.A.
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Universal is planning to re-tell the story of an immigrant's rise to criminal power, and has tapped Jonathan Herman as the new Scarface remake writer.
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This first Straight Outta Compton trailer, which dramatizes the rise of the rap group N.W.A, comes complete with a long intro featuring founding members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. In the film, Cube's son O’Shea Jackson Jr. plays his father, while Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell are Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E respectively. The film follows the late-'80s rise…
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Short Term 12 star Keith Stanfield joins Straight Outta Compton as Snoop Dogg. F. Gary Gray is directing the NWA biopic, due out August 2015.
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The members of N.W.A -- Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, DJ Yella and MC Ren -- did things their way, but still needed some music industry connections to get their songs out to a big audience. The guy they turned to was Jerry Heller, who was best known for living on the opposite end of…
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Now that we're in 2024, it's time to leave certain trends hairstyles behind. Because a new year is the ideal moment to switch things up.
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Who are the actors playing NWA in the biopic Straight Outta Compton? Ice Cube's son will play Cube, and two relative unknowns landed gigs as Dre and Eazy-E.
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Ice Cube's son O'Shea Jackson Jr. will play Ice Cube in Straight Outta Compton, the N.W.A. biopic being directed by F. Gary Gray. Ice Cube is producing.
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It's been a while since we got an update on Straight Outta Compton, the biopic of the iconic rap group N.W.A. But not only is the project still alive, it's taking a significant step forward. Jonathan Herman has just been hired to write the project, which still has F. Gary Gray attached to helm. Additionally,…
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