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Snoop Dogg Asks For Company In A ‘Roots’ Boycott: ‘***** That Old *****’
http://uproxx.com/music/snoop-dogg-boycott-roots/

History’s remake of Roots has been getting rave reviews but one very famous someone will not be watching when it premieres Monday night. Snoop Dogg took to Instagram to bash the series, and Hollywood as a whole for constantly creating films centered around slavery and oppression rather than other black stories of success.

“No disrespect, but I can’t watch no motha*****in’ more black movies with n*ggas getting dogged out,” he said in the NSFW Instagram rant. He also called out Academy Awards’ Best Picture winner 12 Years A Slave along with Roots. “I’m sick of this *****,” he continued. “How the ***** are they going to put Roots on, on Memorial Day They going to just to keep beating that ***** into our heads about how they did us, huh?”

He also insinuated that the problem isn’t just Hollywood but America as a whole. “I mean, I don’t understand America. They just wanna keep showing the abuse we took hundreds and hundreds of years ago.”

Snoop also encouraged the creation of more films about black success, instead of slave stories. Finally, he encouraged the real “n*ggas like myself,” to outright boycott the series and others like it.

“***** them television shows,” he said. “Let’s create our own ***** based on today, how we live and how we inspire people today. Black is what’s real. ***** that old *****.
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What a refreshing attitude. Time to move on...indeed.
 
Is there anyone like Jackie Chan or Jet Li or even (maybe) Jean-Claude Van Damme making movies now? People who actually know how to fight and can kinda act to put on a fun movie? It seems like everything done now is either CGI or stuntmen.
 
DMAN3474 said:
Is there anyone like Jackie Chan or Jet Li or even (maybe) Jean-Claude Van Damme making movies now? People who actually know how to fight and can kinda act to put on a fun movie? It seems like everything done now is either CGI or stuntmen.
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Donnie Yen
 


Such an enigma this guy. Does menacing so well that you would think him incapable of levity. Then you see him doing stuff so out of character. Really really like him.
 
Does ‘Warcraft’s Chinese Success Change The Blockbuster Game?
http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/warcraft-record-breaking-streaming-sale/

Warcraft is doing okay at the overseas box office and struggling in the U.S. But it’s absolutely enormous in China. So far it’s grossed $156 million in theaters, and it just broke another record, selling for a withheld sum to PPTV for exclusive streaming rights to China. If Warcraft breaks even, it’ll be thanks to Chinese audiences. So does this change how blockbusters work, or is it an anomaly?

China is an enormous, growing market for Hollywood and increasingly important to blockbusters. The most recent Transformers movie grossed just a quarter of its billion-dollar gross in America, and more than a third of it in China. Still, that was, to some degree, predictable: Even as series wane in the U.S., their sequels tend to do well, sometimes remarkably well, overseas.

Warcraft is a bit of a switch, though, in that it’s the would-be beginning of a franchise and China has emerged as by far its most meaningful market. To be fair, Warcraft is, fundamentally, a Chinese movie. Legendary, the studio that developed it for a decade, was recently bought out by Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate; Tencent, a Chinese internet company, helped fund it; and Atlas Entertainment, another company involved in the production, has strong ties to the Chinese film industry.

None of this is a coincidence. The Chinese film industry is, ultimately, operating at the whims of the Chinese government. And the politicians of Beijing would prefer to flip the equation so more Chinese movies are exported and fewer American movies imported. Only 34 foreign movies, carefully hand-picked by Chinese censors, are allowed into the country a year. This may not have been a central motive for Warcraft, but it’s telling that a movie largely funded with Chinese money is tearing up the box office in a way movies like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman V. Superman couldn’t.

That said, it’s not clear that China will carry Warcraft to box office dominance. The movie’s break-even point at the global box office is $450 million, and it’s still, as of this writing, about $150 million shy. That’s certainly within reach, but it’s in sharp contrast to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which racked up nearly a billion dollars just in the U.S., and Deadpool, which got banned in China and saw that ban ultimately have zero effect on the movie have zero effect on its surprise $760 million worldwide gross. Even if Warcraft does break even, it’s still unlikely to make much of a dent in Hollywood’s box office strategy, being seen more as an odd, modest success instead of a trendsetter.
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Slippery slope here. The US is on the verge of losing it's one real export.
 
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