In 1996, Will Packer was a recent Florida A&M University graduate with an electrical engineering degree delivering newspapers from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m. every morning to pay the bills.
Four years later, in 2000, the first film he produced and distributed theatrically, the thriller “Trois,” grossed $1.2 million at the box office and became the fastest African-American distributed film to pass the million-dollar mark.
Now, the 51-year-old has produced around 30 feature films that have collectively earned more than $1 billion at the box office. Ten of his movies, including the 2014 romantic comedy, “Think Like a Man Too” and the 2016 comedy “Ride Along 2,” opened at No. 1.
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