https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33 en-us 2018-01-12 14:29:45 UTC 2025-12-28 07:22:17 UTC hello@padlet.com adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222764405 The film was produced by Legendary Pictures (where both Warner Bros and Universal had a hand in producing the film). The film was then distributed primarily by Universal Pictures, who also had a hand in producing it, saving them money via vertical integration. The film was announced to be in development in March 2009, before being released on August 11th 2015.]]> 2018-01-19 13:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222764405 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222770359 Ice Cube - O'Shea Jackson Jr.
Dr Dre - Corey Hawkins
Eazy E - Jason Mitchell
DJ Yella - Neil Brown Jr.
MC Ren - Aldis Hodge
Jerry Heller - Paul Giamatti]]> 2018-01-19 13:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222770359 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222770961 Budget - $28,000,000
Domestic gross - $161,197,785
Foreign gross - $40,437,206
Worldwide total gross - $201,634,785
Profit - $173,634,991

The film made back its budget almost 6 times over

Aside from the US, the film made the most money overseas in the Uk and Australia, making $12,216,965 and $8,733,790 respectively, for a total of $20,950,757 in those 2 countries alone. 

Given that the film was distributed by Universal Pictures, who also co-produced the film as a part of Legendary Pictures, the film benefitted monetarily from vertical integration as part of the Comcast conglomerate, who own Universal. ]]> 2018-01-19 13:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222770961 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222774370 - When the film was in it's casting stage, the film asked for girls on an A-D scale of attractiveness, however as the women get less attractive, the casting call wanted the skin tone to be darker, with the lowest ranking asking for "medium to dark skin tone".
- On August 12th 2014, just 7 days into shooting, a drive by shooting took place in front of the cast and crew whilst on set, none of the cast were hurt but one civilian was shot.]]> 2018-01-19 13:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222774370 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222774881 Jurassic Park (1993)
ET (1982)
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Jaws (1975)
Back to the Future (1985)]]> 2018-01-19 13:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222774881 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222776340 The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
X-Men (2000)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Man of Steel (2013)]]> 2018-01-19 14:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222776340 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222782919 The film most likely chose to go with Legendary Pictures to produce the film as opposed to Warner Bros due to Warner Bros' reputation of producing more family friendly films, whereas Legendary are more known for their biopic films, hence why they were chosen.]]> 2018-01-19 14:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222782919 adam_prince994 https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222785487 Given that the film was a studio film, it followed the traditional route of cinema to DVD to pay per view to Freeview, as opposed to going on a film festival circuit like most indie films would. The film was released on August 14th 2015, before being released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 19th January 2016. ]]> 2018-01-19 14:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/adam_prince994/1jw2bmkros33/wish/222785487