{"id":81087,"date":"2021-06-19T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T23:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aone.la\/?p=81087"},"modified":"2022-05-10T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:10:00","slug":"thehousenextdoor-tops-specialty-boxoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/thehousenextdoor-tops-specialty-boxoffice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The House Next Door: Meet The Blacks 2\u2019 Debut Weekend Passes $1M, Tops Specialty Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row unlock_row=”” row_height_percent=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ row_height_use_pixel=”” uncode_shortcode_id=”163544″][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=”yes” gutter_size=”3″ font_family=”font-134980″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ zoom_width=”0″ zoom_height=”0″ column_width_pixel=”800″][uncode_breadcrumbs text_lead=”small”][vc_custom_heading auto_text=”yes” heading_semantic=”h1″ text_font=”font-996878″ text_size=”h3″ text_weight=”800″ text_transform=”uppercase” text_height=”fontheight-484969″ text_space=”fontspace-206042″ text_uppercase=””]Take your time.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”81088″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”174271″ media_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fdeadline.com%2F2021%2F06%2Fthe-house-next-door-meet-the-black-2-specialty-box-office-1234774407%2F|target:_blank”][uncode_info_box items=”Date”][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”192916″]Hidden Empire Film Group\u2019s comedy\/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533) with writer-director Deon Taylor and his team huddling right now over where and how much to expand the run \u2014 but expand it they will. Taylor\u2019s thrilled with the $$ although he and others in the indie space acknowledged Sunday that ongoing distancing restrictions in key New York and LA is a major bummer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt that the most this weekend, because we sold out theaters. People couldn\u2019t see it. They had to come back later, or the next day,\u201d Taylor told Deadline. The film needed more capacity. \u201cThat\u2019s the very next thing that we have to figure out \u2013 how to fill up the theaters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sold-out shows were testament the movie\u2019s \u201ccore audience that never gets films served to them,\u201d he said. Hidden Empire oversaw a highly-targeted rollout and marketing push to a Black demo for the film with Mike Epps as Carl Black facing off with a neighbor from hell (Katt Williams), a pimp who may also be a vampire. It\u2019s a follow on Meet The Blacks from 2016.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not on PVOD. \u201cI feel sorry for anybody that bets against the theatrical world. It\u2019s America\u2019s pastime. You might not be able to afford to go on a trip or a fancy restaurant but you can afford to take your friends and wife or girlfriend and go to a movie,\u201d Taylor said.[\/vc_column_text][uncode_share layout=”multiple” bigger=”yes” no_back=”yes”][vc_empty_space empty_h=”2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hidden Empire Film Group\u2019s comedy\/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":81088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81221,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81087\/revisions\/81221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aone.la\/creative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}