That way, the suits must have figured, gun-toting black folk could have the multiplex all to themselves and not scare off white families on opening weekend. Back in the Nineties, after movies like New Jack City and Boyz n the Hood saw their openings marred with shootings, studios began dropping “urban films” midweek. How ghetto, you ask? Well, it came out on a Wednesday - I didn’t think black movies did that anymore. Trevor Jackson (right) plays a suave drug dealer named Priest and Lex Scott Davis is Georgia, his girlfriend, in “SuperFly,” Director X’s blinged-out redo of the 1972 blaxploitation classic.
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