http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/movies/28color.html?ref=arts
"Still, many black stars have continued to see their work slighted abroad, and that inability to conquer such markets can be the difference between landing a coveted role or not. In the past two years, according to the Boxofficemojo figures, “Hustle & Flow,” starring Terrence Howard, did only about 6 percent of its box-office business abroad; “Are We There Yet?,” with Ice Cube, did about 16 percent; and “Last Holiday,” with Queen Latifah, did 11 percent, despite its setting in a European mountain resort."
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I also did not go to see any of these movies. Because I knew ahead of time that they would be shitterrific. In fact, I am so racist that instead of going to see the new Tyler Perry movie, with it's quiet affirmation of black evangelical ideas, I drove to Jackson last week to see a foreign movie. You know. Because foreign films suffer in the black rural south--the xenophobic barrier.
Well, at least now I know not to put a black character in my new script "Hannibal versus Indiana Jones."
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omg racisst!!!!11
i think you should cast a black dude as a kind of hannibal's side-kick type character. think about it -- you can use will smith. he's apparently the ONLY internationally marketable black actor ever to exist in the entire history of the world and movies. ever.
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