11 Facts About Black Dynamite

1.

Black Dynamite is a 2009 American blaxploitation action comedy film starring Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, and Salli Richardson.

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2.

Black Dynamite discovers the shady organization is filling the black orphanages with heroin.

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3.

Black Dynamite declares war on local drug dealers and successfully cleans up the streets, earning him the affection of Gloria, a Black Power activist who works at the local orphanage.

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4.

Black Dynamite kills O'Leary before acquiring his next lead to find the source of the "Code Kansas" plan.

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5.

The president begs to be killed but Black Dynamite refuses to give him "the easy way out" and has Nixon watch out for his people.

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6.

Black Dynamite was shot in the Leimert Park, Ladera Heights, and Angeles Vista sections of Los Angeles over twenty days, with several green-screen days and one reshoot day.

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7.

For example, in one scene where Black Dynamite stands up from his desk, a red boom microphone appears above his head .

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8.

Black Dynamite premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where Sony Worldwide Acquisitions picked it up for distribution for "nearly $2 million".

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9.

Black Dynamite had a limited release to only 70 theaters and a run time of two weeks.

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10.

The video series is a parody of Japanese variety show sketches, featuring a Japanese-speaking Black Dynamite mannequin teaching the value of respect among other things to former WWE wrestlers, MMA fighters and American Gladiators athletes.

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11.

Black Dynamite 2 was slated for production in 2021 from Jaigantic Studios, with White writing and directing.

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