Tyler Perry: Black Movies “On The Verge Of Becoming Extinct.”
By Clutch Magazine
Last week George Lucas made waves when he took to The Daily Show to explain why it took 23 years to make the upcoming film Red Tails about the Tuskegee Airmen. According to Lucas, only one thing stood in the way of the historical action flick reaching movie screens: money.
Lucas spoke candidly about the difficulty of getting a film with an all-black cast to garner the backing of major studios and even larger budgets. Apparently studios don’t think films with black casts are commercially viable here or abroad, and therefore don’t invest big bucks in making them.
Today, Tyler Perry took to his website to talk about his own difficulty making films despite posting respectable box office numbers. Perry ratcheted up the rhetoric a bit more and argued that films with black casts are “on the verge of becoming extinct.”
Why? Well, read Perry’s letter to find out. Check out theGrio for more on Tyler Perry.
Tyler Perry: Black Movies “On The Verge Of Becoming Extinct.”
TheGrio
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:29:33 GMT
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