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‘Red Tails’ does better than expected at the box office
Written by Fcadmin |
26 January 2012
FROM WIRE REPORTS
"Red Tails" brought in $19.1 million for a solid number 2 placing at the box office in its opening weekend. The movie brought in numbers that were better than expected by industry insiders. The film finished closely behind "Underworld Awakening,’’ which took in $25.4 million.
Producer George Lucas spent 20 years pursuing the project that chronicled one of the many storied experiences of Tuskegee Airmen. Lucas revealed he couldn’t get any studio to finance the film because of the storyline and the all-Black cast.
He finally decided to put up the money himself – which cost him $58 million on the production budget and another $35 in distribution costs.