The Racialicious Entertainment Roundup: 1.25-31.13

February 1st, 2013 by Racialicious Team

So white people aren’t watching her show, and it’s supposed to be O’Brien’s fault? Sounds from here like the problem lies with who CNN is trying to reach.

But there’s already one ominous sign: new network head Jeff Zucker’s very first move was to announce plans to install ABC News’ Chris Cuomo in O’Brien’s timeslot. Because we needed another white talking head in the AM, amirite?

A network spokesperson didn’t quite deny to The Daily Beast that she was in trouble, either, saying, “Soledad is very important to the network and we are discussing various options with her.” I’m sure they are.–AG

Olympus Has Fallen: Every generation of Americans has to be scared of someone. We seem to be moving away from the phantom terrorist and back into familiar territory of Yellow Peril. Angry Asian Man posted this collection of racist tweets from Red Dawn viewers, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we see similar reactions from those same folks and more after Olympus Has Fallen debuts.

To be fair, this film seems to have more going for it than the mere presence of Chris Hemsworth’s biceps, but it’s still playing on the same “evil Asian” fears reintroduced in Red Dawn. (The pitch for Olympus boils down to dear God, they’re in the White House!) Entertaining or not, this can’t be a positive trend.–KJ

Warner Brothers CEO becomes first Asian-American studio leader: Speaking of Angry Asian Man, he noted the promotion of Kevin Tsujihara from leading Warner Brothers’ home video, digital, and video games division to company CEO, making him the first Asian American to head a major studio.

Though the move was seen as a surprise, AAM correctly pinpoints Tsujihara’s digital expertise as his biggest contribution in the position:

“Welcome to the future,” he writes. “Tsujihara will be responsible for steering the company in a rapidly changing media landscape where viewers are ditching traditional means of consuming movies and television increasingly watching digital content pretty much anytime and anywhere on any device they want.”–AG

Beyonce:

Oh, is there also a football game happening on Sunday?–KJ

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  • JosephLamour

    In regards to Olympus Has Fallen, I love how even though there are a lot of Asians (from all countries) in DC, that every Asian person in this movie is evil, which the trailer makes apparent. Also, why are there suddenly so many “blow up the white house” movies now? The last one was Independence Day, right?

  • http://twitter.com/wriglied Kendra

    Funny enough, the director of Independence Day is doing another movie with this same premise (minus Evil Asians, I think?) that’s coming out later this year. At one point it was called White House Down.