White Writer Calls Black Panther ‘Hollywood’s Worst Nightmare,’ Blames It for White People’s Problems

gardnerhill:

rafi-dangelo:

Black Panther is about $20 million shy of breaking the Avengers record for highest grossing film in North America (so yes, this means I will in fact be seeing it one more time), but it does bother me that the entire industry keeps focusing on Black Panther in relation to other movies, as if it’s somehow stealing box office revenue from other films.

1) If your movie is good, people are probably gonna want to go see it, even if they saw another movie that month. Middling reviews do not inspire people to shell out $15 a ticket regardless of whether there is a massive juggernaut released at the same time.

2) WE TOLD Y’ALL THIS MOVIE WOULD BE BIG. As soon as the movie was released, critics, box office watchers, and Chads of all stripes were predicting a $60 million open with maybe a $200 million end run. Because of that, studios decided to go ahead and release their tentpoles and big releases in this pre-summer period before the big blockbusters come out because they didn’t see Black Panther as a big blockbuster. Underestimating Black folks bit you in the ass again.

3) Suffer. I don’t know what else to tell you.

I’m trying to imagine this white guy and his white editor whining about white-starring blockbusters breaking box-office records. As one black Tweet said, black folks have been told from day one they had to be twice as good to be treated half as well, and now it’s THEIR fault BP is doing so well?

White Writer Calls Black Panther ‘Hollywood’s Worst Nightmare,’ Blames It for White People’s Problems