The 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, about N.W.A., was a hit not just domestically (where it brought in about $161 million) but also abroad (more than $40 million). There are plenty of examples of “black films” - movies telling stories about black people, with black actors in the lead roles - that did just fine overseas, from Blade and Bad Boys to Ray and Creed. The “black films don’t travel” myth has been disproved before. But it persists, not just in the expectations that movie studio executives set for “black films,” but also in what they’re willing to invest in those films.īlack Panther, though, may have changed the game. You’d think the myth - which suggests that movies telling stories about black people, with black actors in the lead roles, aren’t interesting to many people outside of North America - would have died by now. It may, finally, crush a pernicious Hollywood myth: that “black films don’t travel.” Black Panther didn’t just obliterate box office records with its massive opening weekend.
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