‘Straight’ No.1 for second week
Free Press wire reports | 8/28/2015, 11:26 a.m.
“Straight Outta Compton” continues to connect with movie audiences.
It is the No. 1 movie in North America for the second week.
Universal’s biopic of rap group N.W.A. added $26.3 million to its coffers last weekend, according to studio figures released Monday. The film about the early days of Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and Eazy-E has collected $111 million in ticket sales through its first two weekends of release.
Meanwhile, Dr. Dre apologized to “the women I’ve hurt” in comments the New York Times published last Friday on its website. He did so without specifically acknowledging the reason for the apology.
The 50-year-old music mogul said that he “deeply regret(s) what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.”
He pleaded no contest to criminal battery charges following allegations he violently attacked journalist Dee Barnes in 1991. Ms. Barnes published a story online last week about the assault. Other women, including Dr. Dre’s former girlfriend, Michel’le, also claimed he assaulted them.
Dr. Dre said in his statement that 25 years ago, he was “a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did.”
Technology giant Apple — which bought Dr. Dre’s music company, Beats, for $13.6 billion last year — also issued a statement backing him.
“Dre has apologized for the mistakes he’s made in the past. We have every reason to believe that he has changed,” the company statement read.
