Can Black people create shows like The Wire or Breaking Bad?

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

You need more people. Excuses. Cacs are really stopping black america from creating their equivalent of hollywood, nollywood or bollywood. I don't believe it.

In an appearance on The Daily Show last night, George Lucas said that he had trouble getting funding for his new movie, "Red Tails," because of its black cast.

"This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I've been trying to get released ever since," Lucas quipped to Jon Stewart. "It's because it's an all-black movie. There's no major white roles in it at all...I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don't know how to market a movie like this."

"Red Tails," which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of pioneering black pilots who fought in the United States' segregated armed forces during World War II. The movie is directed by Anthony Hemingway, the rare black director getting a chance to direct a big-budget feature.

Last week, Lucas told USA Today that he was worried that if Red Tails was a failure, it could have negative repercussions for black filmmakers. "I realize that by accident I've now put the black film community at risk [with Red Tails, whose $58 million budget far exceeds typical all-black productions]," he said. "I'm saying, if this doesn't work, there's a good chance you'll stay where you are for quite a while. It'll be harder for you guys to break out of that [lower-budget] mold. But if I can break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else out there saying let's make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have more Tyler Perrys out there."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/george-lucas-hollywood-di_n_1197227.html

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

12 Years a Slave is a Landmark film, the cinematography alone is top notch

Yeah...When he replied that he was just ok......I stopped taking him seriously

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

then do it, stop bragging. oh white people stopped michael jackson from making thriller or doing the moonwalk GTFOH. Take that cac crap to the bushes.

white executives did not want michael jackson on MTV inspite of the masterpiece he made...

what are you talking about?

 

[???]

In an appearance on The Daily Show last night, George Lucas said that he had trouble getting funding for his new movie, "Red Tails," because of its black cast.

"This has been held up for release since 1942 since it was shot, I've been trying to get released ever since," Lucas quipped to Jon Stewart. "It's because it's an all-black movie. There's no major white roles in it at all...I showed it to all of them and they said no. We don't know how to market a movie like this."

"Red Tails," which stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard, is based on the Tuskegee Airmen, the group of pioneering black pilots who fought in the United States' segregated armed forces during World War II. The movie is directed by Anthony Hemingway, the rare black director getting a chance to direct a big-budget feature.

Last week, Lucas told USA Today that he was worried that if Red Tails was a failure, it could have negative repercussions for black filmmakers. "I realize that by accident I've now put the black film community at risk [with Red Tails, whose $58 million budget far exceeds typical all-black productions]," he said. "I'm saying, if this doesn't work, there's a good chance you'll stay where you are for quite a while. It'll be harder for you guys to break out of that [lower-budget] mold. But if I can break through with this movie, then hopefully there will be someone else out there saying let's make a prequel and sequel, and soon you have more Tyler Perrys out there."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/george-lucas-hollywood-di_n_1197227.html

WOW white people tell blacks what to watch GTFOH. EXCUSES

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

^^^^^^ first animated movie directed by a brother.



Lesean Thomas
Ronald Wimberly
Sanford Greene
Aaron McGruder
Jamaal Bradley
Tyree Dilihay

In mah industry (animation/video games) dere aren't a lot of us period but dere are some who do make it to da helm.

Bess belee we out chea puttin in work brehs...we mos def out chea.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

You need more people. Excuses. Cacs are really stopping black america from creating their equivalent of hollywood, nollywood or bollywood. I don't believe it.

 

[???]

white executives did not want michael jackson on MTV inspite of the masterpiece he made...

what are you talking about?

if you can do it, do it. white people didn't stop mike from making it. who cares about mtv? it was still going to be the shyt.

 

[???]

you don't need hollywood. build a makeshift studio and get it done. fukk cacs.

michael jackson used 1 million dollars of his own money to help finance the making of thriller the 14 min mini movie.

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

if you can do it, do it. white people didn't stop mike from making it. who cares about mtv? it was still going to be the shyt.

Michael Jackson broke several musical boundaries with his music throughout his lifetime, but perhaps none was more revolutionary for both music and civil rights than when Billie Jean aired on MTV in 1983. Before that song, there had never been a black artist’s video shown because they weren’t considered “rock” enough for the channel.

Jackson claimed that he knew the song would be a massive hit. In fact, the story goes that when leaving the studio after recording he was so focused and excited that he didn’t notice that his car was on fire! “Off The Wall” was his first album released outside of the Jackson 5 and while it was stunningly successful, Jackson was angry that it didn’t win Album of the Year and decided he would make another CD even better. The result was one of the most famous albums of all time, Thriller.

MTV still refused to air the video, and it wasn’t until the president of CBS, who owned Jackson’s record label, threatened to pull all CBS funded music off of MTV that they changed their minds. Fortunately for MTV, people forgot how ignorantly racist they were and they reaped massive renown and increased profits from one of the most famous songs of all time.

http://www.omg-facts.com/Celebs/Before-Billie-Jean-MTV-Did-Not-Air-Video/53995

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

you don't need hollywood. build a makeshift studio and get it done. fukk cacs.

So who will be funding these All Black movies that most Black people won't go and see?

 

[Da Jungles]

Yes the question is "can" not "why"? and please stop talking about useless cacs over here. I don't believe none of that shyt.

@ this guy putting white folks on a pedestal talking about "can"

The inferior complex is strong in this one

 

[???]

So who will be funding these All Black movies that most Black people won't go and see?

who told you black people wont see these movies?

 

[Will Ross]

Yes but we have to pay for it on our own.

 

[???]

@ this guy putting white folks on a pedestal talking about "can"

The inferior complex is strong in this one

"can" doesn't mean inferiority complex? it means can it be done and not bragging about how you can do something but useless cacs are stopping you.

kanye west is going around making all kinds of crazy stuff, aint no cacs stopping him or blocking his shyt

 

[Mr Uncle Leroy]

WOW white people tell blacks what to watch

of course they do, because they tell you, show you, fun you, what to watch...

you said: It make me very SAD when people like Mona Scott Young, Shonda Rhimes and Madea, are being touted as the best the black community has to offer in these modern times with all their basic generic subpar stuff.

Mona Scott Young (VH1, music manager histroy), Shonda Rhimes (ABC network Grey Anatomy) and Madea (Tyler Perry, lived in his car) jeezus...their roles are not even typical for easy success...and their TV shows are on white network TV...while those directors/producers have made money...is the "futuristic" media content ahead of the community? BET tried to get TJ Holmes from CNN and it didnt pan...