Stomp the Yard Stomps Box Office: Pearl, Jr. Explains
Media personality and author Pearl, Jr. sends us some box-office news:
Stomp the Yard reached the coveted #1 Movie in America status, earning over $22 million, averaging around $11,000 per screening in 2051 theaters. Previous #1 movies for King’s weekend include Glory Road and Coach Carter.
The success of this film is a rebuttal to Joe Queenan’s op-ed in Sunday’s LA Times referencing movies ostensibly about people of color, but in which some white guy saves the day: Blood Diamond, Constant Gardener, The Interpreter, et al.
To be fair, movies featuring a wise/sacrificing/tough-but-fair black figure abound as well.
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