Hidden Empire Film Group founders Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor are at it again with “The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2,” the sequel to their hit horror spoof “Meet the Blacks.” In 2016…
are at it again with “The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2,” the sequel to their hit horror spoof “Meet the Blacks.”
The success of “The House Next Door” is indicative of the scrappy model that Deon and Roxanne have employed since the married producing team founded the production company, in partnership with investor and philanthropist Robert F. Smith. The Taylors describe their success in the industry as being the “product of no.”
Deon witnessed the strength of Perry’s relationship with his audience firsthand after a chance encounter between the filmmaker and his mother, Valeria. That’s why the filmmaker takes his cues from the culture versus the critics — following in the tradition of everyone from Oscar Micheaux and Rudy Ray Moore, to Robert Townsend and Keenan Ivory Wayans, making movies for their community regardless of whether the traditional Hollywood system believes they will sell.
The Hidden Empire model was one created by necessity, Roxanne explains, saying: “This was all by default — because we didn’t have the help, the support, the finances, we didn’t have the engine to do it on our own and so we were really forced into this game called Hollywood.” “Hollywood is very male-dominated and [women] constantly have to prove ourselves outside of the husband-wife thing, but I want people to see I don’t need Deon to produce a movie, because he doesn’t produce the movie for me, I produce it for him.”
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