So has Michael Jai White been blackballed by Hollywood?

[theflyest]

blackballed may be an exaggeration, but it don't matter. A guy with his background should be in a movie like the expendables. He should be in the fast & furious 6 as some sort of villain. I'm not talking about star roles here. However I am sure he is content with his career & he has had success in his own way.

 

[FaTaL]

blackballed may be an exaggeration, but it don't matter. A guy with his background should be in a movie like the expendables. He should be in the fast & furious 6 as some sort of villain. I'm not talking about star roles here. However I am sure he is content with his career & he has had success in his own way.

dude is a C level star


hey i like his undisputed movie but beyond that hes really done nothing. he lost on playing blade in the tv series to sticky fingers

 

[Monoblock]

Example.

Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, Robert Downey Jr.

 

[feelosofer]

Charlie Sheen, John Travolta, Robert Downey Jr.

Sheen is part of Hollywood royalty and has connections out the wazoo.

Travolta is a member of the gay elite.

Robert Downey Jr. was a brilliant actor and was on the cusp of being elite in the early-mid 90's, he was his own worst enemy.

 

[Bigbigguy]

Example.

 

[daemonova]

At first glance, Ryan Reynolds seems to be an exceptional case, but Im not sure if his movies actually make money

Safehouse was the first film of his to make money I think, wait there was proposal with Sandra Bullock

 

[ECA]

Channing Tatum

Tatum is a proven box office draw. Magic Mike was a sleeper hit largely because he was attached to it.

 

[winb83]

Example.

Colin Farrell he just got a new chance with Total Recall.

 

[winb83]

At first glance, Ryan Reynolds seems to be an exceptional case, but Im not sure if his movies actually make money

Van Wilder cost $5 million to make and brought in $38 million
Blade Trinity $65m to $128m
Defiantly, Maybe $7m to $55m
Buried $2m to $19m
his movies make profits some of them good but most aren't run away successes but they make money

 

[jwinfield]

Safehouse was the first film of his to make money I think, wait there was proposal with Sandra Bullock

Bill Simmons did an article discussing how Hollywood has kinda brainwashed us into thinking Reynolds was a star despite being in shytty films that didn't make money.

Bill Simmons on Ryan Reynolds, Will Smith, and the perception of success in Hollywood - Grantland

Of course, Hollywood can be confusing because someone can feel like an All-Star without ever having a good "season." Reynolds is the best example. His movie career started in 2001 with Finder's Fee, a straight-to-DVD thriller5 he made while starring in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place on ABC … a show that was more successful than you remember, staying on the air even after they jettisoned the pizza place and renamed it Two Guys and a Girl. In 2002, he landed his first starring role, in National Lampoon's Van Wilder. The good news: It made money, earned decent Rotten Tomatoes audience reviews (78 percent!) and spawned an eventual sequel that nobody saw. The bad news: It wasn't that funny and ended up being sentenced to a lifetime of heavy edits on Comedy Central.

Our next five Reynolds movies: a supporting role in 2003's The In-Laws (a remake of the Alan Arkin/Peter Falk classic that never should have happened); a starring role in 2003's Foolproof (key words: "Canadian" and "straight to DVD"); a charming cameo in 2004's Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (overshadowed by Neil Patrick Harris's career-rejuvenating cameo); a supporting role in Blade: Trinity (the last time anyone's seen Wesley Snipes in public); and then a starring role in a 2005 TV movie called School of Life (created to fool anyone flipping channels into thinking it was School of Rock).

By 2005, Hollywood liked Reynolds just enough that it gave him not one, not two, but THREE starring roles: the Amityville Horror remake (21 percent approval rating from the Rotten Tomatoes top critics); Waiting, an ensemble comedy about twentysomething waiters that desperately wanted to be a Dazed and Confused–like cult movie but never made it (24 percent); and Just Friends, which was basically Fat Harry Meets Sally (37 percent) and featured Reynolds wearing a fat suit on the poster.

To recap: Reynolds's "breakout" year featured him playing an obese guy, a waiter and a possessed husband. Jeez, how did that not work out? The big mistake was The Amityville Horror, which made money because it came out during the horror boom … but still, explain to me how it's a good career move for The Likable And Handsome Ryan Reynolds to become possessed by a satanic house? That same role submarined James Brolin's career! Brolin ended up starring on Hotel and becoming Mr. Barbra Streisand because nobody could see him without thinking about him staring into a fire and fighting off the urge to chop up his family with an ax. And Reynolds's agent thought it was a GOOD idea to remake that movie?

Things didn't improve for Reynolds with 2006's release of Smoking Aces, a failed attempt to headline a Tarantino-like action movie featuring a cadre of name actors who thought they had signed up for that decade's Reservoir Dogs (and never saw the mushroom cloud coming). His next three movies grossed a combined $300,000 in America: The Nines ($63k), Chaos Theory ($237k) and Fireflies in the Garden (straight to DVD). Yikes.

Just when Reynolds's return to TV in Two Guys, a Girl and a Baby seemed imminent, his relationship with Scarlett heated up and reignited the whole "Ryan Reynolds is a movie star" story line, because if he's appearing in Us Weekly every other week, then dammit, that means he's a star. He quickly rolled off the best stretch of his career: Definitely, Maybe (a decently reviewed rom-com), Adventureland (his only movie that ever topped 70 percent with Rotten Tomatoes' top critics), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (made $179 million, although he was the fifth lead and critics savaged the film), an indie bomb called Paper Man (let's move on) and The Proposal (a smash hit for a rom-com). Again, that was the best stretch of his career.

Now, you're sitting there saying, "Wait a second, there has to be more. That couldn't have been the entire list of Ryan Reynolds movies." And you'd be right: In 2010, he released a movie about a truck driver being trapped in a coffin in Iraq called Buried. (It became a Sundance hit, but that's it.) That was followed by the Green Lantern Stinkbomb, with one more summer flick coming: The Change-Up, in which Reynolds and Jason Bateman switch bodies, with Bateman becoming a ladies' man and Reynolds becoming a family man, only both of them realize they had it better the old way, and Good God Almighty, I can't believe they're still making body-switch movies.

All in all, Reynolds starred in 20 movies over the past 10 years. Four went straight to DVD or premiered on TV. Another four made little to no money whatsoever. Of his 16 movies that were eligible for a "top critics" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, nine dipped lower than 30 percent; only three rose above 50 percent; and his average score was 36.3. These are the best "advanced metrics" we have for Hollywood, and really, we didn't need them to bang home the point that Ryan Reynolds isn't actually a movie star.

 

[Monoblock]

Sheen is part of Hollywood royalty and has connections out the wazoo.

Travolta is a member of the gay elite.

Robert Downey Jr. was a brilliant actor and was on the cusp of being elite in the early-mid 90's, he was his own worst enemy.

Thats nice to know but it still doesn't change the fact that it's not uncommon. White actors get opportunities out the ass. Watch Mel Gibson make a come back in a few years and he said fukk all the Jews multiple times. Meanwhile they only letting Denzel and Will make movies and they have to be different times. Truth is Hollywood isn't willing to roll the dice with black actors in fear of not getting their money back which is why they wont do a Black Panther movie and quietly ignore the character like he wasn't a vital part of the Avengers origin.

 

[jwinfield]

Nah, I think Gibson's done.

After the anti-semitic remarks after getting arrested, he fukked up again by making the threats against his wife and saying racist shyt.

Almost had a chance to rebuild his image by being in the Hangover 2, but Galifinakis led a "revolt" to get him kicked off for the abuse stuff.

 

[Optimus Prime]

He's hollywood royalty (uncle Francis Ford Coppola) and at the beginning of his career he was a great serious actor, even got a Oscar for best actor. People forget how many classic good movies Nick has under his belt because of the last 10 years of crap...

 

[Monoblock]

Nah, I think Gibson's done.

After the anti-semitic remarks after getting arrested, he fukked up again by making the threats against his wife and saying racist shyt.

Almost had a chance to rebuild his image by being in the Hangover 2, but Galifinakis led a "revolt" to get him kicked off for the abuse stuff.

Isn't that some bullshyt though. WTF has Galafinakis done though besides play a half retarded moron in a movie thats already run its course and making bad sequels? I really dont give a shyt what Mel said hell most of the non Jewish CAC probably feel the same way. I have nothing against Jews but this p*ssy version of Hollywood pisses me off. Everybody so quick to get offended nowadays (cant say shyt about gays, cant see shyt about people with Lou Gehrig's disease, cant say shyt about retard people). Mel's a hell of a director and actor and his career in Hollywood speaks for itself. fukking Galafinakis will be forgotten about in 5 years max....but nah now that I think about it The Passion of The Christ(and it made a shyt load of money with not much Hollywood backing) along with his multiple rants on Jews....he probably wont find his way out of those bushes.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Isn't that some bullshyt though. WTF has Galafinakis done though besides play a half retarded moron in a movie thats already run its course and making bad sequels?

zack is the biggest star of a Rated R movie franchise thats bought in a billion dollars so far. Mel can't bring in anything close to that right now. Hollywood has always been about what have you done for me lately