NEWS: Mike Epps, Donald Faison and Mos Def to star in “Next Day Air” February 12, 2009
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(from Variety) Summit Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to action comedy “Next Day Air” from Melee Entertainment and Paramount and will release it domestically on May 8.Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Wood Harris and Mos Def star.
Scott Aronson produced for Melee along with Inny Clemons for his Secret Society banner. Exec producers include Bryan Turner, Miami Heat player Shaun Livingston, Steve Markoff, Steven Belser and Bruce McNall.
“Next Day Air” represents the feature directorial debut from music video director Benny Boom. Blair “Butta” Cobbs penned the screenplay, in which a package of contraband is delivered to the wrong apartment, setting in motion a frantic search among the gangsters who sent it and the criminals who were supposed to get it.
This movie was a disgrace to black and latino men. Majority black male cast and all they can show is drugs,violence,laziness,debachery, poverty and every negative vice you can think of. You would never see all white male cast displayed like this on film. I cannot believe in this day in age, now with a black president running the country, and the entertainmnet industry is still showing negative stereo typical roles for black males. The movie was trash, and it showed us living no higher than a bunch of animals. It’s really sad that we have wonderful black talented (male) actors and they would stoop this low to play in this kind of movie. What are we displaying to the next generation? We need more Spike Lee’s, and Tyler Perry’s, and other’s to write and produce more movies with substance.
The best thing about this movie is that it will be dwarfed by Star Trek.
this weekend. Sad that Black minstrels perhaps out of desperation or ignorance are willing to participate.
Sad that movies like American Violet see (www.americanviolet.com) get virtually no financial backing, but racial stereotype movies like this gets plenty of financial backing from White and Jewish “entertainment” executives.
Check out the executive team of Summit entertainment
http://www.summit-ent.com/
# Rob Friedman
# Patrick Wachsberger
# Bob Hayward
# David Garrett
# Erik Feig
# Nancy Kirkpatrick
# Ronald E. Hohauser
# Richard Fay
# Stephen Nickerson
# Alex Fragen
White Canadian Btyan Turner owns Melee Entertainment.
Same guy who mass marketed N.W.A and other gangsta rappers with
deadly consequences.
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While gangsta rap promotes the killing of Black men and the degradation Black women, entertainment executives laugh all the way to the bank.