If Minorities Made the Most - A Box Office List

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38 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

Can you do the list without whites?

 

I'm curious how much shorter it would be.

 

@Blankments

 

7 hours ago, Blankments said:

 

1. Despicable Me 2 – 368M
2. Furious 7 – 353M
3. Minions – 336M
4. The Sixth Sense – 294M
5. acclaimed science-fiction film acclaimed science-fiction film Gravity – 274M
6. Despicable Me – 252M
7. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – 250M
8. Fast & Furious 6 – 239M
9. Signs – 228M
10. Mission: Impossible II - 215.4M
11. Fast Five – 209M
12. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs – 197M
13. Ice Age: The Meltdown – 195M
14. The Revenant – 183.6M
15. Get Out – 170.58M
16. The Help – 169.7M
17. The Fate of the Furious – 169.3M
18. Kung Fu Panda 2 – 165.2M
19. Straight Outta Compton – 161.2M
20. Die Another Day – 160.9M
21. Star Trek Beyond – 159M
22. Scary Movie – 157.0M
23. Fast and Furious – 155.1M
24. Fantastic Four – 154.7M
25. Rio – 143.6M
26. Kung Fu Panda 3 - 143.5M
27. The Blair Witch Project – 140.54M
28. Split – 138.0M
29. The Conjuring – 137.4M
30. Ride Along – 134.9M
31. Hulk – 132.2M
32. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - 131.9M
33. The Last Airbender – 131.8M
34. Rio 2 – 131.5M
35. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – 128.08M
36. 2 Fast 2 Furious – 127.2M
37. Safe House - 126.4M
38. Life of Pi – 124.99M
39. G.I. Joe: Retaliation - 122.5M
40. Lee Daniels’ The Butler - 116.6M
41. The Village – 114.2M
42. Spy Kids - 112.72M
43. Face/Off - 112.3M
44. Spy Kids 3D: Game Over - 111.8M
45. The Grudge - 110.4M

 

[grey ghost]

Thanks a million, @cookie

[DMan7]

What about movie made by immigrants?

 

[cannastop]

9 hours ago, Blankments said:

I know Frozen, the Despicable Me movies, and Zootopia all fall under "several directors, but at least one isn't a hetero white male."

So, what is it for the Despicable Me movies?

Edited April 27, 2017 by cannastop

[Lizzy]

So this year Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Taika Waititi (Thor 3) and maybe Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit) will be added to the list. Any other films being released that could qualify?

Edited April 27, 2017 by Lizzy

[aabattery]

5 hours ago, Lizzy said:

So this year Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), Taika Waititi (Thor 3) and maybe Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit) will be added to the list. Any other films being released that could qualify?

 

Not this year but Nika Caro should get on the list with Mulan in 2018. 

[AniNate]

8 hours ago, cannastop said:

So, what is it for the Despicable Me movies?

 

Pierre Coffin is of Indonesian descent

 

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by tribefan695

[Plain Old Tele]

It's also interesting to see which filmmakers are from and work overseas (though in conjunction with American companies and distributors) and which ones don't. The Illumination guys are based in France, etc.

[AniNate]

You should also add Shrek 1 (co-directed by a woman) and the Sam Mendes hits (of Trinidad/Portuguese descent). If you're going to count Daniel Espinosa you should count him too.

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by tribefan695

[Plain Old Tele]

1 minute ago, tribefan695 said:

You should also add Shrek 1 (co-directed by a woman) and the Sam Mendes James Bond movies (of Trinidad/Portuguese descent). If you're going to count Daniel Espinosa you should count him too.

 

It's interesting to see where you draw the barrier -- and I don't think there's an obvious or clear answer. Mendes' father was Portuguese but he was born in England. And of course "Portuguese" could mean a variety of different ancestries.

 

As a sort-of counter argument, if I was a famous director, my mother is Greek but my father is American (of English/Scottish extraction). Is my "Greekness" enough to qualify me as a minority? I wouldn't think so and I look about as white as it gets. Then, to complicate things further, if my son becomes a famous director, he's got that Greek ancestry plus Spanish/Equadoran on his mother's side. Does he count as a minority? Technically, he does, without a doubt, but he's a blue-eyed, brown-haired kid -- if anything, he'll end up looking like a California surf dude.

 

There's a line to be drawn somewhere, and honestly I don't exactly know where the cutoff is. But Sam Mendes feels like a bridge too far, at least IMO.

[AniNate]

I'd definitely say Espinosa is kinda stretching it

 

[Avatree]

Despicable Me, DM2 and Minions - Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud are both white males with wives, as far as I'm aware? Or do French people count as a minority now?

 

The Matrix - in my opinion shouldn't count as at the time, the filmmakers were straight white males as far as the public was concerned.

 

acclaimed science-fiction film acclaimed science-fiction film acclaimed science-fiction film Gravity & Prisoner of Azkaban -Alfonso Cuaron is foreign but hardly non white. How are you defining white?

 

 

Doctor Dolittle - Richard Fleischer? Where does he fit in? White man married to a woman...

 

Blair Witch Project - this Eduardo Sanchez guy looks pretty white to me:

 

 

Ice Age & Robots - the director Chris Wedge is white, male and married to a woman.

 

 

 

 

 

Interesting idea of a list. as said above you missed out shrek.

 

 

 

Are you just defining non-white as non-American? 

 

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by Manchester by the Tree

[AniNate]

We should keep track of overall grosses by minority/disadvantaged filmmakers too

 

Looks like right now the top ten is

 

1 M. Night Shyamalan - $1,233m

2 Bill Condon - $1,202m

3 Bryan Singer - $1,142m

4 Carlos Saldanha - $972m

5 Pierre Coffin - $956m

6 Justin Lin - $846m

  Sam Mendes?

7 Tyler Perry - $817m

8 James Wan - $814m

9 Tim Story - $782m

10 Lilly/Lana Wachowski - $715m

[AniNate]

5 minutes ago, Manchester by the Tree said:

Doctor Dolittle - Richard Fleischer? Where does he fit in? White man married to a woman...

 

Ice Age & Robots - the director Chris Wedge is white, male and married to a woman.

 

 

The Eddie Murphy Dolittle was directed by Betty Thomas. Ice Age and Robots were co-directed by a native Brazilian.

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11 minutes ago, Manchester by the Tree said:

Doctor Dolittle - Richard Fleischer? Where does he fit in? White man married to a woman...

 

Blanks listed the 1998 Eddie Murphy version which was directed by a woman (Betty Thomas), not the 1967 original which Fleischer directed.

 

Edit: Beaten to it by that much.

Edited April 27, 2017 by cookie

[Avatree]

3 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

 

The Eddie Murphy Dolittle was directed by Betty Thomas. Ice Age and Robots were co-directed by a native Brazilian.

ah, I just googled the film and clicked the first result.

 

as for the Robots and Ice Age director - 

 

 

these rules seem rather arbitrary.

[AniNate]

No, the other guy

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Saldanha

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^ I think some of the confusion (which I myself fell into) stems from Ice Age and Robots' wiki pages only listing Wedge as the director.

Edited April 27, 2017 by cookie

[Avatree]

13 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

We should keep track of overall grosses by minority/disadvantaged filmmakers too

 

Looks like right now the top ten is

 

1 M. Night Shyamalan - $1,233m

2 Bill Condon - $1,202m

3 Bryan Singer - $1,142m

4 Carlos Saldanha - $972m

5 Pierre Coffin - $956m

6 Justin Lin - $846m

  Sam Mendes?

7 Tyler Perry - $817m

8 James Wan - $814m

9 Tim Story - $782m

10 Lilly/Lana Wachowski - $715m

Why would Sam Mendes be included? The only indication of him having some foreign ancestry is his last name. He is English and having seen the guy in real life he is very much white.

[Avatree]

2 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:

No, the other guy

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Saldanha

Huh. On the wikipedia articles for those films they're just listed as being directed by one guy.

 

Animated films in general are pretty pointless for this, as the "director" doesn't have the same job and is rarely used in marketing like directors of live-action films are.