5 years

Whether it’s sharing his very astute thoughts on cancel culture (“There’s no cancel culture . . . I don’t know what people we think got canceled that we wished we had back.”) or alleging that Cedric the Entertainer stole his joke for The Kings of Comedy, Katt Williams knows how to stir the pot. He also knows how to keep the box office interesting. In pre-pandemic times, a million-dollar box office weekend might not be news. But at a time when folks are still reluctant to go into physical theaters and drive-ins are in limited supply, the success of a small-budget film like The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2, the follow-up to the even more modestly-budgeted 2016 hit comedy horror, Meet the Blacks, gets top-notch industry attention from pubs like Deadline. But if you know like we know, Katt Williams is one of the main reasons for the film’s success.