Colombiana starring Zoe Saldana as a female assassin opened up this weekend with $10.3 Million in ticket sales – which wasn’t enough to knock The Help from the #1 spot earning $14.3 Million this weekend after being in theaters for three weeks. Did anyone go see Colombiana?
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Wow, i’m impressed that it did 8 figures in the first week, to be honest. Budget of $40MM too.
Good for them.
That movie looked good but I’m sure the hurricane talk cost it at least half it’s potential take. I’ll go see it, just not sure when.
interesting. i hope movie studios dont interpret this to mean that casting black female stars is action movies are unsuccessful.
Good point. I was really excited to see her as the lead…but the hurricane kept me away from the theater. I’m checking it out soon.
she’s Dominican which means she’s Hispanic. She’s not black you dumb ass nigga.
Trip all you want…Dominica is in the caribbeans and caribbeans are largely considered black…they only speak spanish because they’re colonized by them. Stay mad, but she black!
Below is a quote from Zoe.
When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, “¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?” (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don’t understand it, and it’s the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, “Yo soy una mujer negra.” (“I am a black woman.”) [They go,] “Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita.” (“Oh no, you are ‘dark skinned’”) I’m like, “No! Let’s get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra.” (“I am a black woman.”)
The women looks black, is black and said she is black. Now you can go kick rocks. I watched her movie and loved it.
Below is a quote from Zoe.
When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, “¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?” (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don’t understand it, and it’s the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, “Yo soy una mujer negra.” (“I am a black woman.”) [They go,] “Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita.” (“Oh no, you are ‘dark skinned’”) I’m like, “No! Let’s get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra.” (“I am a black woman.”)
The women looks black, is black and said she is black. Now you can go kick rocks. I watched her movie and loved it.
Anonymous: most Dominicans are descendants of slaves of African descent (there are some who are descended from indigenous inhabitants but they make up a minority and have been folded into the bigger ethnic groups). The difference between Dominicans, Haitians, Jamaicans, Cubans, etc. comes from who the slave masters were.
Dominicans had Spanish owners. Haitians had French owners. Jamaicans had English owners.
See the difference? So what you just said is that Dominicans aren’t black because they’re slave masters were Spanish.
Then in the next statement you called someone else dumb????? You’re fucking retarded.
So sad people don’t understand that the language you speak doesn’t determine your ethnicity. Nationality and ethnicity are two different things. I’m American. I speak English. I’m Black. Zoe is Dominican. Zoe speaks English/Spanish. Zoe is Black. We’re both descendants of Africans.
Hispanic is not a race. You’d probably better describe her as African-Dominican. But essentially she’s a Black woman.
And why would you refer to someone as a nigga? That’s basically a reflection on yourself and is a sign of ignorance.
I saw it. Zoe is dope in this movie. Wish the fighting scenes were longer.