{"id":3806,"date":"2018-08-05T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/08\/05\/boots-riley-says-sorry-to-bother-you-isnt-playing-abroad-because-distributors-think-black-movies-dont-perform-well\/"},"modified":"2018-08-05T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T16:31:10","slug":"boots-riley-says-sorry-to-bother-you-isnt-playing-abroad-because-distributors-think-black-movies-dont-perform-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/08\/05\/boots-riley-says-sorry-to-bother-you-isnt-playing-abroad-because-distributors-think-black-movies-dont-perform-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots Riley Says \u2018Sorry to Bother You\u2019 Isn\u2019t Playing Abroad Because Distributors Think \u2018Black\u2019 Movies Don\u2019t Perform Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sorry-to-bother-you\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sorry-to-bother-you\">Sorry to Bother You<\/a>&#8221; has had a strong showing at the domestic box office, earning nearly $15 million in its first month of release despite never playing in more than 1,050 theaters. In spite of that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/boots-riley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_boots-riley\">Boots Riley<\/a>&#8217;s out-there directorial debut \u2014 which stars Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson and premiered at Sundance earlier this year \u2014 has yet to play in theaters abroad. Riley thinks he knows why: There&#8217;s a stigma against &#8220;black&#8221; movies, which distributors don&#8217;t believe will perform well internationally.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/jordan-peele-see-sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-1201986432\/\" title=\"Jordan Peele Rented an Entire Theater for People to See \u2018Sorry to Bother You\u2019\">Jordan Peele Rented an Entire Theater for People to See \u2018Sorry to Bother You\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;Even tho we&#8217;r outperforming a gang of other movies, distributors r claiming &#8216;Black movies&#8217; dont do well internationally and r treating it as such,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;There&#8217;r films that bombed here, that theyr distributing. Let em know wsup.&#8221; The film follows a black telemarketer (Stanfield) who adopts a white-sounding voice during calls in order to be more successful; it only gets stranger from there, veering into sci-fi surrealism as it explores race relations and other far-flung subjects.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/sorry-to-bother-you-whitney-three-identical-strangers-box-office-1201981887\/\" title=\"\u2018Sorry to Bother You\u2019 Is Another Sundance Hit, While \u2018Whitney\u2019 Hits Familiar Notes\">\u2018Sorry to Bother You\u2019 Is Another Sundance Hit, While \u2018Whitney\u2019 Hits Familiar Notes<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; \u2014 which some might likewise pigeonhole as a &#8220;black&#8221; movie \u2014 is among the most successful films of the year, earning more than $1.3 billion worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">re: the international distribution of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SorryToBotherYou?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#SorryToBotherYou<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p>Even tho we&#8217;r outperforming a gang of other movies, distributors r claiming &#8220;Black movies&#8221; dont do well internationally and r treating it as such. There&#8217;r films that bombed here, that theyr distributing. Let em know wsup<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boots Riley (@BootsRiley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BootsRiley\/status\/1025600043888177152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">August 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sorry to Bother You&#8221; has had a strong showing at the domestic box office, earning nearly $15 million in its first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Zo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}