("Fruitvale Station" earned an impressive $54,000 average per screen in the handful of theaters it opened in last weekend, and executives with the Weinstein Co., the film's distributor, suggested ...

Empathy and authenticity keep you on the edge of your seat at “Fruitvale Station,” a fact-based movie shot in the cities where its story really occurred – Oakland, San Francisco and Hayward ...

Fruitvale Station, the just-released debut feature from 27-year-old director/writer Ryan Coogler, has already garnered critical buzz for the filmmaker and his stars, Michael B. Jordan as Grant and ...

Early in the morning on New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old black drug dealer Oscar Grant was shot in the back and killed by a white cop in Oakland’s Fruitvale Station as dozens of witnesses ...

Harvey Weinstein’s big Oscar hopeful this summer is “Fruitvale Station,” a true story about the fatal Oakland shooting of an unarmed young black man that arrived with almost miraculous timing.

Like Ryan Coogler's film-fest darling, Oscar-nominated films "Precious" and "Beasts of the Southern Wild" took home big honors at Sundance and Cannes.

It's eerie that Fruitvale Station—the movie based on the last day of shooting victim Oscar Grant III's life—is opening as George Zimmerman's trial winds down with closing arguments. Both Grant ...

"Fruitvale Station" was always going to be a movie that made some noise. Ryan Coogler's film recounts the last 24 or so hours in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old African-American who was ...

Emotionally wrenching and based on true events, Fruitvale Station creates a sad portrait of a young man shot down in his prime. It is the story of Oscar Grant, a black, 22-year-old native of ...