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Award-winning film director Wes Craven has died at the age of 76.

The creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Sunday (August 30) after battling brain cancer.

Craven was particularly known for his work on horror and slasher films having made his directorial debut in 1972 with The Last House on the Left.

Over the course of his decades-spanning career, Craven redefined the horror genre with his work on such films as Nightmare on Elm Street, Swamp Thing and the wildly popular Scream series, which later developed into a franchise consisting of several movies and a TV spinoff series for which Craven also served as an executive producer.

In addition to a highly-successful film career Craven was also a published author having released his novel Fountain Society in 1999.

More recently, the director had collaborated with 30 Days of Night co-creator Steve Niles on his first comic Coming of Rage that was released late last year and was working with producer Arnold Rifkin’s Cheyenne Enterprises and Liquid Comics on adapting the comic into a television series.

Craven is survived by his wife, producer and frequent collaborator Iya Labunka.

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Straight Outta Compton has stayed at number one in the US box office following a quiet weekend.

The NWA biopic took $13.2m to see off competition from Alex Kendrick’s War Room, which is new in at two with $11m.

Elsewhere, Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation is down to three with $8.3m, just ahead of new entry No Escape, which is at four.

Horror sequel Sinister 2 is at five with $4.6m and Guy Ritchie’s The Man From UNCLE is at six with $4.4m.

Hitman: Agent 47 is at seven, while The Gift is at eight with $3.1m.

Finally, Jurassic World is at nine with $3.1m and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man rounds out the top ten with $3m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for is as follows:
1. (1) Straight Outta Compton – $13,240,000
2. (-) War Room – $11,000,000
3. (2) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $8,300,000
4. (-) No Escape – $8,288,000
5. (3) Sinister 2 – $4,650,000
6. (5) The Man From UNCLE – $4,410,000
7. (4) Hitman: Agent 47 – $3,850,000
8. (7) The Gift – $3,134,000
9. (-) Jurassic World – $3,120,000
10. (8) Ant-Man – $3,054,000

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Straight Outta Compton spends a second week at the top of the US box office.

The NWA biopic took $26.7m, keeping Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation at number two with $11.7m.

New releases Sinister 2 and Hitman: Agent 47 debut at number three and four, with takings of $10.6m and $8.2m respectively.

Guy Ritchie’s The Man From UNCLE drops to five, while American Ultra debuts at six with $5.5m.

The Gift falls to seven, as Ant-Man drops to eight and Minions is at number nine.

Fantastic Four rounds out the top ten with takings of £3.6m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for August 21 – 23 is as follows:
1. (1) Straight Outta Compton – $26,760,000
2. (2) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $11,700,000
3. (-) Sinister 2 – $10,633,000
4. (-) Hitman: Agent 47 – $8,200,000
5. (3) The Man From UNCLE – $7,420,000
6. (-) American Ultra – $5,500,000
7. (5) The Gift – $4,300,000
8. (6) Ant-Man – $4,088,000
9. (8) Minions – $3,710,000
10. (4) Fantastic Four – $3,650,000

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NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton has topped the US box office in its first week of release.

The film, which focuses on the group’s rise to hip-hop stardom, took $56m to knock Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation off the top spot down to number two.

Elsewhere, Guy Ritchie’s spy flick The Man From UNCLE is new at three with $13.5m and Fantastic Four is down to four with $8m.

The Gift is at five with $6.5m and Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man is down to six with $5.5m.

Vacation is at seven, while animated comedy Minions slips to eight with $5.2m.

Finally, Ricki and the Flash is at nine with $4.5m and Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck rounds out the top ten with $3.8m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for August 14 – 16 is as follows:
1. (-) Straight Outta Compton – $56,100,000
2. (1) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $17,300,000
3. (-) The Man from UNCLE – $13,535,000
4. (2) Fantastic Four – $8,000,000
5. (3) The Gift – $6,500,000
6. (5) Ant-Man – $5,517,000
7. (4) Vacation – $5,330,000
8. (6) Minions – $5,200,000
9. (7) Ricki and the Flash – $4,570,000
10. (8) Trainwreck – $3,800,000

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation has kept Fantastic Four from claiming the top spot at the US box office.

The Tom Cruise-starring action flick earned another week at number one with $29m, while Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four debuted at number two with $26m.

Joel Edgerton’s The Gift debuts at three with $12m, as Vacation falls to number four and Ant-Man rounds out the top five.

Minions falls to number six with $7m, as Meryl Streep’s Ricki and the Flash debuts at seven with $7m.

Trainwreck and Pixels take eight and nine respectively, and Southpaw is at number ten.

The US weekend box office top 10 for August 7 – 9 is as follows:
1. (1) Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – $29,400,000
2. (-) Fantastic Four – $26,200,000
3. (-) The Gift – $12,007,000
4. (2) Vacation – $9,145,000
5. (3) Ant-Man – $7,826,000
6. (4) Minions – $7,400,000
7. (-) Ricki and the Flash – $7,000,000
8. (6) Trainwreck – $6,300,000
9. (5) Pixels – $5,430,000
10. (7) Southpaw – $4,764,000

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