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“Charm City Kings” won over many critics in its Sundance premiere earlier this year, and likely would have been doing the same in Texas this week if it were showing, as planned, at the canceled South by Southwest Film Festival. It’ll still get its chance to charm general audiences as well as critical gatekeepers, who have been impressed so far not just by actor Jahi Di’Allo Winston’s standout performance as main character “Mouse,” but by rapper Meek Mill, who gives a breakout supporting turn in the film, his first as an actor.

“It was a good experience for me,” Meek tells Variety. “I enjoyed it and it was a learning experience,” added the 32-year-old star, before saying he’d likely be doing more acting in the near future.

The rapper’s music is also a big part of the Overbrook/Sony Pictures Classics film, which chronicles the lives...

The seventh annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards will take place Feb. 16 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

The awards recognize outstanding music supervisors in 14 categories, representing movies, television, games and trailers. Among the supervisors receiving multiple nominations are Steven Gizicki, Julia Michels, Julianne Jordan, Joel C. High, Dave Jordan, Lindsey Wolfington, JoJo Villanueva, Becky Bentham, Heather Guibert, Pj Bloom and Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe and Jonathan Leahy.

Gary LeMel, the former president of music at Warner Bros. film studio, will receive the second Music Supervisors Legacy Award. During his 23 years at WB, LeMel...

(Clockwise from top left) DJ Yella, Ice Cube, Mc Ren, Dr. Dre, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Aldis Hodge as Mc Ren, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-e, O’Shea Jackson, Jr. as Ice Cube and Neil Brown, Jr. as DJ Yella on the set of Straight Outta Compton.

Universal Pictures has released a new featurette, clip and photos for F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton.

Taking us back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels – armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent – stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A.

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Come back later this week for my look at Sunday’s Hollywood press conference and hear what O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Ice Cube and F. Gary Gray had to say about the film.