I got back to New York city last night after a great trip to Atlanta. Thank you once again to the entire Triage Entertainmemnt team for making my trip so smooth. I had a good flight back fom Atlanta. We got back to New York City so quickly that I was not able to finish the movie that I was watching. Ever since I was a kid, I always enjoyed flying. I loved the take off and landing. I felt that the vacation started on plane. There are so many videos to watch and video games to play. It’s like one massive hotel room shared by many people. There’s so much stimulation that I would have to force myself to go to sleep. I developed some anxiety towards flying when I got on the plane on the trip to London to take care of Ogbogu. It continued on my trip to Nigeria, but I’ve been working on it; coming to terms with the root of it. I realized that on my trip back to NYC from Atlanta that I wasn’t anxious anymore.
On the car ride home from the airport, I called a great of mine, Myron Primes. We got on the subject of Red Tails. We talked about the fact that we had to make sure to go and see Red Tails this weekend because opening weekend is the most important for every theatrically released film. I’m going to see it tonight. The opening weekend is important because of several factors. Mainly though, it will give an indication of the amount of money it is likely to make, and the more money it makes, the more the word spreads about whether or not it is good. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY! If it is a good film but fails to make much money in comparison to its costs, then there won’t be many people that have seen it, and therefore word-of-mouth won’t go as far and as quickly. Entertainment business is what it is…BUSINESS!! The producers want to make money and tons of it. There are so many people to get paid when a film is completed that the numbers are key. That being said, if black people want to see more films with all black casts, we have to make the film explode on it’s opening weekend.
RED TAILS IS NUMBER TWO!!! ONE MORE DAY TO MAKE IT NUMBER ONE!!!
Hollywood, just like any other business is a copy-cat business. When one genre of film makes a ton of money, ten more films in that genre get made to try to capitalize on the success of the first one. That means that if Red Tails does well at the box office, 10 more action films with all black casts will get made. That means that the careers of several black actors will get jump started and flailing careers will get resuscitated. Instead of sitting around crying about who is not hiring us or not giving us an opportunity, we should make our own films and challenge each other to go out and support it. If a film is not made into a campaign, people will not be motivated to go out and see it. Red Tails was pushed as a campaign and black people were determined not let down. WE DID IT!!!! Red Tails is number two in the box office!! It is not a comedy nor is it a film where black people are playing servants or drivers. This shows that films such as these can and will make money. It goes to show that if you are strong enough to build it…they will come!
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