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Black-Owned Pop-Up Movie Theater Pushes Back On Offering All-White Movies

Karen Rouse

Jul 22, 2020

The African American owners of New Jersey’s latest pop-up, drive-in theater are giving Ferris Bueller the day off.


With their launch of Newark Moonlight Cinema this Friday, Newark-based filmmaker Ayana Stafford-Morris and her husband, real estate developer, Siree Morris, ditched the '80s cult classic that stars Matthew Broderick—and instead will show Girls TripCreed II, and the 2007 remake of Hairspray — movies whose characters reflect the ethnic and cultural diversity of the region’s audiences.


“We want to be able to change the narrative,” said Stafford-Morris, 34. “When we say cult classic, it shouldn't just be assumed that it’s a white film.”


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