F. Gary Gray

F. Gary Gray is now the most successful black director to date, with the highest worldwide box office totals including all his films.

The Hollywood Reporter ruffled some feathers among both the industry and the public when they blamed standards of the entertainment industry on their all-White award season cover.

“Straight Outta Compton” is still making headlines.  “The Hollywood Reporter” has announced that the N.W.A. biopic directed by F. Gary Gray has become the highest-grossing movie by an African American director — ever.  The film has earned enormous recognition since its August release, and has raked in more than 200-million-dollars at the worldwide box office.  […]

Well that didn’t take too long. A day after it was reported that Straight Outta Compton’s F. Gary Gray was a finalist to direct Furious 8, it’s been made…

The director for ‘Straight Outta Compton’ already has a new gig. F. Gary Gray is set to be the director of the upcoming ‘Fast and Furious 8.’   SOURCE: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/f-gary-gray-enters-talks-829682

Straight Outta Compton helped give N.W.A its first Hot 100 single and made O’Shea Jackson, Jr. a star. Of course, F. Gary Gray also had to reap…

After becoming the highest-grossing black director of a single film in domestic sales, with his hit film “Straight Outta Compton,” he plans to document another legendary story. This time around he will not go down the hip-hop route but the R&B rout with Marvin Gaye. According to TMZ: He’s says he’s not in a rush […]

Presidential candidate Scott Walker has thrown in the towel and dropped out of the race. A CNN poll released on Sunday showed that Walker’s support…

Rapper and journalist Dee Barnes wrote a personal essay following the release of Straight Outta Compton about the exclusion of her assaulted by Dr. Dre. The L.A. Times obtained…

Roland Martin traveled to Hollywood to talk with the cast and director of the hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton. In this NewsOne Now interview, Martin talks…

  Recently, Ice Cube performed in Sydney, Austraila where he unveiled the trailer to his anticipated N.W.A biopic, “Straight Outta Compton.” The film stars Ice Cube’ son O’Shea Jackson Jr. (playing Cube), Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre and Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E. Also, it co-stars Carra Patterson, Keith Stanfield and Paul Giamatti as Eazy-E’s widow Tomica Woods, Snoop Dogg and the group’s manager Jerry Heller. “Straight Outta Compton ” is directed by F. Gary Gray and produced by Ice Cube […]