Re: #OscarsSoWhite
Not that it matters, but the grosses of the films I mentioned were embarrassingly low, even by independent standards.
I'm not a newspaper journalist, who supposedly have editorial standards they adhere to (or they used to). I'm an anonymous dummy on a message board. When I see newspaper stories like this:
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/fe...en-1201610849/
who conveniently forget to mention all the female driven films that tanked (again, a lie of omission), or at least mention the fact that at the end of the day this whole business is a crap shoot at best, I see them for the agenda driven propaganda machines that they are.
I didn't forget to mention anything. The knock against African American-driven films is and always has been that they don't play well outside the United States. Based on the overseas grosses of Creed and Straight Outta Compton, that assumption is completely correct.
And in an era where films are expected to make 70% of their money overseas, you can understand the concern of studio execs.
I'm in the camp that the studios shouldn't be beholden to the overseas crowds. It's the very reason that the number of 'quality' dramatic films produced by Hollywood is diminishing, and we're being served more dumb spectacles with exploding robots. Make more films, with smaller budgets, for everyone, I say.
That's what the journalists should be writing about, not this imaginary racist boogeyman.
Originally posted by UpandComing
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Originally posted by UpandComing
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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/fe...en-1201610849/
who conveniently forget to mention all the female driven films that tanked (again, a lie of omission), or at least mention the fact that at the end of the day this whole business is a crap shoot at best, I see them for the agenda driven propaganda machines that they are.
I didn't forget to mention anything. The knock against African American-driven films is and always has been that they don't play well outside the United States. Based on the overseas grosses of Creed and Straight Outta Compton, that assumption is completely correct.
And in an era where films are expected to make 70% of their money overseas, you can understand the concern of studio execs.
I'm in the camp that the studios shouldn't be beholden to the overseas crowds. It's the very reason that the number of 'quality' dramatic films produced by Hollywood is diminishing, and we're being served more dumb spectacles with exploding robots. Make more films, with smaller budgets, for everyone, I say.
That's what the journalists should be writing about, not this imaginary racist boogeyman.
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