Week-by-week, Variety puts out round-ups about how well Hollywood movies are projected to sell at the upcoming weekend’s box office. Buried partway into this week’s edition, published on Thursday, was a small paragraph about the upcoming film “The American Society of Magical Negroes.” Helmed by a first-time director and starring relative up-and-comer Justice Smith, the film follow’s Smith’s character as he joins a magical society of black people whose sole mission is to make the lives of white people easier… because doing so makes the lives of black people safer. Yes, this is an actual movie…
