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WIDEawake Entertainment Group bought bankrupt Death Row Records some time ago. Today CEO of Death Row Records, Lara Lavi, announced the opening of Death Row Films and the production of their first project "Sons 2 The Grave" [Tonya Lee Williams, Dorian 
Harewood, K.C. Collins ("Flashpoint") and child actor Cameron Miles Jones]. The film is about a young basketball phenomenon [Collins] returning to an embattled ghetto after two gunshots cut short his dream of an NBA career. "This film embodies what we're trying to do with Death Row, to tell human stories that don't always have happy endings, and that allow us to learn from violence and disenfranchised lives, but not glorify it," Lavi said [Yahoo News]. +++YOUR THOUGHTS+++ - What are your thoughts about that approach to film making? - - Are we perpetuating a film that will continue to keep the Black community in a period of despair? - Do you believe it's time to raise the bar and continue to diversify the type of Black films that are released to the public? - I just think Boyz n the Hood was important for its time but in 2009, its time to get away from the hood based films and start displaying more works that show Blacks in a positive life. I guess you can say that will happen only if and when we begin to support other types of films about our culture. +-0-+STOP!!!!! +-0-+
Please, Please, Please do not and I repeat do not say "GO WATCH A TYLER PERRY FILM"! That man only promotes the demise of the Black Man. I am glad that most of them are professionals in his film, but the whoa is me I've been hurt by a black man is getting old. The film is only in the early production phase, so the jury is still out regarding the quality of the film. Let's hope they make it better than how it was described. Written by: Ran @rannyran on Twitter
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I welcome the concept of not glorifying the negative but I wonder if they will hold true to that. I agree with you, the ghetto is known for what it is, what it provides, and what it creates.. let's move on.. Tyler P does have a way of slashing the male of the black community in his work, however, I think he focuses on using the most common cases for his films, using familiar topic to generate amusement... that is not to say anything negative about black men b/c I am the first to say that there are some great men out there.. BUT Tyler P does need to be more creative in the area of presenting a different bases for his films.. he is so powerful as far as being able to have the stage to expose different areas of life.. he should take the paton and run with it..
Back to DR.. I agree, they should take their projects in a new direction, a direction not ending with the death of someone trying to get out of the hood or the girl who makes it out of the hood only after being raped.. people do actually SUCESSFULLY make it out of the hood, and hell all of us are not even from the hood so I totally agree that we should see other aspects of the black community portrayed b/c the term "black community" does not equivocate to proverty and crime.. let's get clear on that point... It is only once we start showing, through music and film, that black people live good and eat well w/out the help of crime that white America will realize that too... remember the audience a good friend of mine said...
G/J
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