Black girl magic isn’t just beautiful-it’s funny as hell!
History: Film centering four black women having fun with no big cause, mission, problem or catastrophe hits big at box office.
Hollywood: pic.twitter.com/nlqGSGogZ2
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) July 23, 2017
Girls Trip premiered with rave reviews delivering a massive total of $30.4 million during its opening weekend, making it the largest opening weekend performance of any live-action comedy in 2017 so far.
According to Box Office Mojo, the movie-tracking website found it was a racially diverse crowd: 59 percent of the audience was black, 19 percent was white, 17 percent was Hispanic and 3 percent was Asian.
The film, directed by Malcolm D. Lee’s was produced on a $20 million dollar budget.
Girls Trip isn’t “overperforming” you just keep having low expectations for black folk. WE KNEW that movie was gonna kill.
— David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS) July 23, 2017
The film also scored an “A” on CinemaScore and an 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
You can catch breakout star Tiffany Haddish in her first comedy special, “Tiffany Haddish: She Ready! From the Hood to Hollywood” on Showtime and is starring in the TBS comedy “The Last OG,” opposite Tracy Morgan.
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