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LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Marvel’s Black Panther is a global sensation. As of Saturday, March 3, 2018, only two weeks and two days into its release, the Ryan Coogler/Joe Robert Cole film has grossed $US898 million worldwide. Within its first week it had outgrossed what DC’s Justice League took three months to earn, and the entire US runs of Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, The Incredible Hulk, the first Captain America, and the first two Thor films . It had the fifth-highest opening of all time and the third-highest four-day opening ever . Of course, money isn’t everything, but the astonishing success of a film that is 100% obviously Africentric, starring African characters played by African actors, written by two African writers and directed by an African director, is game-changing. It negates in sky-writing every Hollywood executive who ever claimed that US-made movies about and by Africans could not make money outside the US. And this is within the same 12-month period in...

WORKING WITH DAVE CHAPPELLE, WHY JORDAN PEELE WOULD LOVE IT HAPPENED ON NEGRO MOUNTAIN, WHEN TO GO FULL SHARKNADO ON YOUR SCRIPT LISTEN/DOWNLOAD This show is mostly about creators in various fields showing and proving what they know about how to make what they make and how to make money from what they make. Today we get to combine two fields: making movies and making novels. Jeff Carroll is an amazing creator. He's worked as a booker at comedy clubs and also managed comedians, which gave him access to plenty of working comics whom he could cast the movies he wrote and produced, including his Blaxploitation/ B-Movie/ Grindhouse films such as Holla If I Kill You and the award-winning Gold Digger Killer. When his distributor went belly-up and took his money beyond the grave, Carroll leveraged his existing intellectual property by turning one of his features into a novel. He's also a speaker and known online as Yo Jeff the Hip Hop Dating Coach. So the man definitely kn...