10 African-American Film Producers Fueling The Business of Hollywood
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MadameNoire
Rob Hardy and Will Packer
Hardy and Packer have come a long way from their days at Florida A & M University where they pushed their ultra low budget film Chocolate City. Now working with multimillion dollar budgets through their company Rainforest Films, Hardy and Packer have developed a chemistry that carefully mixes creativity with business. “Hollywood filmmaking is absolutely a business,” Packer said. “It’s the business of creating, distributing and marketing content.” A string of box office successes Stomp the Yard, This Christmas, and Obsessed has led to their latest project, Takers, a spin on the action heist that stars Idris Elba, T.I. and Zoe Saldana.
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