Fight in Fillmore-Harlem of the West, "Straight Outta Compton" in Theaters & "Cops and Robbers"
August 17, 2015
Editor's update: "It was a total eclipse of the sun so to speak as "Straight Outta Compton" came straight out of the box leading with $56.1 million "booyah!" The nearest competitor was "Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation," bringing in over $17 million in its third weekend of play in close to 4,000 theaters, over one thousand more theaters than "Straight Outta Compton" had for its opening weekend.
News Released Friday, August 14, 2013
From the "Fight in San Francisco's Fillmore" for affordable housing, to anthems of rage in "Straight Outta Compton" to life imitating art in Jinho "The Piper" Ferreira's "Cops and Robbers," the message is the same: "Stop the Violence" politically, physically and economically.
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