Black or White (film) 2013 in New Orleans with the filming lasting for five weeks. Relativity planned to release the film in time to qualify for the Oscar race, starting with a limited release on December 3, 2014 then opening wide on January 30, 2015. The limited release was scrapped, however, in favor of an immediate wide release. "Black or White" was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 5, 2015. "Black or White" grossed $21.6 million in North America against a budget of $9 million. In its opening weekend of January 30, 2015, the film made a gross of $2.3 million on Friday,
The Black Riders and Other Lines years." Amy Lowell, however, found these themes reflective of Crane's own struggle with belief: "He disbelieved it and he hated it, but he could not free himself from it... Crane's soul was heaped with bitterness and this bitterness he flung back at the theory of life which had betrayed him". Elbert Hubbard, who had encouraged Crane's unusual poetry, was impressed by their unconventional structure: "The 'Lines' in "The Black Riders" seem to me wonderful: charged with meaning like a storage battery. But there is a fine defy in the flavour that warns the reader not to take too much or