And how is that my fault or anyone else? Everybody has Google and those execs have people whose JOB it is to find out why this film or that film failed. If I want to know why the latest Tyler Perry black male bashing film failed-I'll research it on my own just like they do with white projects.When two or more fail execs immediately assume they'll all fail.
Its not like they won't stop trying-not if they want a chunk of that trillion dollars that blacks spend outside of the black community every year. We got studios now trying to get minority writers and film makers through various programs now.
They saw how 2 Tim Story directed film made almost a 100 million while Tyler can't sniff more than 50 million.
Disney saw how every time they do a black cast film for the Disney Channel-it breaks rating records and the last 2 had black male leads.
The issue with that is when we get those films-WHO is the first one to complain? BLACK FOLKS who have bought into the we can't do this or that mess mindset.what's also important is that we STRONGLY support the QUALITY black independent films that differ from what the major studios keep pushing out.
We saw that with Red Tails with black women boycotting the film because they weren't in it and a character fell in love with a white woman.
Daddy's Girls-"oh we can't have a film showing black men caring for their kids because the ones I know don't."
Game of Your Life-"black boys aren't smart."
We can't get those strong film of balance if we think we can only be salves, thugs, jocks and target practice for George Zimmerman or the cops. We have to change the mindset but we can't do that when Oprah, Tyler, Steve, Lee Daniels and others are heck bent in keeping those images alive because that's how they got their money and studio won't stop eating it up.
And when those film that are decent get made-you can't find them anywhere. We can't keep limiting our films to certain cities. I can't go to New York for black film festivals or cons.
I promise you if Holmes & Watson do make it to tv-they will face the same complaints and will get screwed around like Boondocks (who should be in season 7 not season 4) and Static Shock.
Now you know those studios are not going to do that. See Static. They have tried EVERYTHING to bury him. Yet the average white person KNOWS who he is. They can sing that theme song. I ahve seen white kids dressed as him.In fact, part of what I was talking about was giving those original minority background characters either their own movie or TV series if they proved to be very popular with moviegoers and fans.
Same with Falcon. His movie figure will not come out until long AFTER the DVD comes out.
Luke Cage-his toy can't even get mentioned on tv, so you know his tv series will get ignored.
They are so scared that the minority character will get more popular than their precious white ones. Yet it's fine if a raccoon at Marvel gets that popular.