*Filmmaker Peter Ramsey became the fifth Black director in 2018 to have a film gross $100M at the domestic box office.
With an estimated $18.3M this weekend, “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse,” directed by Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman, has surpassed $103 million and is Peter’s second film to gross the century mark, blackfilm.com reports. His 2012 directorial debut, “Rise of the Guardians,” grossed $103M domestically and $306.9M worldwide. With ‘Guardians,’ he was the first Black director to helm a big budget animated feature.
Globally, ‘Spider-Verse’ has bagged nearly $170M so far.
As previously reported, Black filmmakers had a remarkable year at the box office in 2018 — earning a record $1.5 billion at the domestic box office from 16 films, per TheWrap.
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“What we’re seeing is a combination of a number of things. We’ve seen, in the last four or five years, a renaissance of black voices and a rise of black filmmakers,” Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King said. “And you’ve got studios and financiers paying more attention to an audience that’s been historically underserved.”
“It shows that Hollywood gets at least passing marks for allowing — or for supporting, rather, black filmmakers,” Gil Robertson, founder of the African American Film Critics Association, said.
Here are the other African American directors whose films grossed $100M domestically (per blackfilm.com):
Ryan Coogler’s 2018 Black Panther (2 Days, $700M total domestic)
Gary Gray’s 2017 The Fate of the Furious (4 Days, $225M)
Gary Gray’s 2015 Straight Outta Compton (9 Days, $161M)
Tim Story’s 2005 Fantastic Four (10 days, $154M)
Tim Story’s 2007 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (12 days, $131M)
Keenan Ivory Wayans’s 2000 Scary Movie (14 days, $157M)
Jordan Peele’s 2017 Get Out (16 days, $175M)
John Singleton’s 2003 2 Fast 2 Furious (17 days, $127M)
Peter Ramsey’s 2018 Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (17 days, $104M and still going)
Tim Story’s 2014 Ride Along (23 days, $134M)
Steven Caple Jr’s 2018 Creed II (23 days, $111M and still going)
Clark Johnson’s 2003 S.W.A.T (24 days, ($116M)
Malcolm D. Lee’s 2017 Girl Trip (28 days, $140M)
Ryan Coogler’s 2015 Creed (38 Days, $109M)
Antoine Fuqua’s 2018 The Equalizer 2 (45 days, $102M)
Lee Daniels with 2013 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (46 days, $116M)
Antoine Fuqua’s 2014 The Equalizer (66 days, $101M)
Peter Ramsey’s 2012 Rise of the Guardians (67 days, $103M)
Gary Gray’s 2003 The Italian Job (95 days, $106.1M)
Ava DuVernay’s 2018 A Wrinkle In Time (102 days, $100.4M)
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