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Imagine a film with the legal smarts of a John Grisham novel and a sci-fi concept wilder than Deep Space Nine. Reginald and Warrington Hudlin, the filmmakers behind House Party and Boomerang, are in discussions with New York University law professor Derrick Bell about making a movie version of a short story in Bell's book Faces at the Bottom of the Well. Bell's story is a sharp commentary on the way the legal system mistreats minorities. The plot: aliens buy all the blacks in America and transport them into outer space. Bell, who lost...
Made for just $2.5 million, House Party has won positive reviews and healthy box office, earning more money per screen than the megahit The Hunt for Red October. Most important to Hudlin and his older brother Warrington, who produced it, House Party appeals to the people it is about. "There's a theater two blocks from our house in Harlem," Reginald says, "and kids come out narrating the plot to their friends and get back in line. It's nice to provide an experience that you wanted when you were that...
...matrix of black folk culture. Brother Joe May, a famous gospel singer, lived two doors down on one side, and Ike and Tina Turner lived two doors down the other side. It was sort of heaven and hell, equidistant." + The Hudlins emigrated to two matrices of official culture -- Warrington went to Yale, Reginald to Harvard -- but as filmmakers they wanted to return home. "When we went to parties, this funny stuff would happen," Reginald says. "I promised my friends that one day I would put it all in a film. So I made a 20-minute version of House Party...
...cultural references, from Public Enemy (the rap group) to Public Enemy (the Cagney classic). But most of their humor is homeboy, or what Reginald calls "Afro-Americana. Little bits of junk culture that tie the black community together." That's what the Hudlins hope to do now that, as Warrington puts it, "every studio in Hollywood has said they'd finance our next movie." As a kid, Warrington thought "movies were like magic that was performed in Hollywood." Now he and his brother have learned that if you believe in magic, you can start making...
...However, Warrington said this is the first time Langdell Library had such a severe problem with its humidity control machinery. "It really has worked well, except for this one glitch...