- ‘Tower Heist’ and ‘Puss in Boots’ are neck and neck at the box office–Kumar is krashing
- Where in the World is J Lo? ‘Carmen Sandiego’ lands Lopez as lead
- ‘Dirty Dancing: The Remake,’ coming in 2013
- ‘Help’ director may do comedy for ‘Bridesmaids’ star
- Robert Pattinson’s period piece, ‘Bel Ami,’ nabs a US distributor
- ‘Tabloid’ star sues Errol Morris for defamation
- Movie Preview: Wanderlust
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‘Tower Heist’ and ‘Puss in Boots’ are neck and neck at the box office–Kumar is krashing Posted: 05 Nov 2011 04:34 AM PDT Big, star-studded comedies with a hint of edge have been opening in the $40 million range in recent years — Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow’s crew, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller and Sandler’s pal Kevin James have set the bar pretty high. A $30 million opening is kind of a given. “A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas” is struggling. My offhand prediction yesterday that the whole 3D thing was going to work against the faintly amusing threequel seems on the mark. It’s on a pace to pull in $15 million, and that’s if Saturday picks up. In 2D, this could have done $25. |
Where in the World is J Lo? ‘Carmen Sandiego’ lands Lopez as lead Posted: 04 Nov 2011 11:42 AM PDT Walden Media is planning on turning that last-century kids’ geography-adventure show “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” into a feature film. And they want People Magazine’s “World’s Most Beautiful Woman,” Jennifer Lopez, to star in it. OK then. Her last few movies had all but killed off her big screen career, then “American Idol” raised her profile. Shoot, she’s doing Fiat commercials. Maybe that will translate to a movie audience. Walden has been almost all alone in the movie world in trying to create films for a toddler-to-tween audience, films based on popular children’s books (“Bridge to Terabithia,” “Chronicles of Narnia.”). In one version of the TV show and video games of the ’90s, Rita Moreno played Carmen, a wily thief always on the run from dogged detectives. There appear to have been many versions of the hunt for Carmen. Interesting casting, putting the Latina bombshell and tabloid magnet Lopez on the case. |
‘Dirty Dancing: The Remake,’ coming in 2013 Posted: 04 Nov 2011 07:21 AM PDT Kenny Ortega gave up on “Footloose,” so Craig Brewer ended up remaking it, Southernizing it and doing a decent job with it. Now the director of “High School Musical” is going after another beloved-but-bad ’80s dance picture. “Dirty Dancing” hasn’t been cast yet, and plainly the producers are ignoring the poor box office returns on “Footloose” in tackling it. But Lionsgate says the film will reach theaters July 26, 2013. It seems ill-fated, ill-advised, but they’re going to do it. Yes they are. Because “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” |
‘Help’ director may do comedy for ‘Bridesmaids’ star Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:56 AM PDT Melissa McCarthy’s “Tammy,” a project she wrote for herself as a star vehicle, needs a director. A director as Hollywood hot as McCarthy herself. Tate Taylor, coming off the $167 million (US) hit “The Help,” might fill that bill. He is in line to direct the film, which has the “Mike & Molly” and “Bridesmaids” breakout star playing a fast food worker laid off, split from her husband and ready to take a road trip of self-discovery with her diabetic foul-mouthed granny. Who could play the grandma? Olympia Dukakis? Betty White? Cloris Leachman? Shirley MacLaine? |
Robert Pattinson’s period piece, ‘Bel Ami,’ nabs a US distributor Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:46 AM PDT Robert Pattinson’s “Bel Ami,” a period piece that has him playing a poor young soldier caught up in the whirlwind of beau monde Paris (1890s) , has been picked up for US/Canadian distribution by Sony Pictures. The film co-stars Uma Thurman, Kristen Scott Thomas and Christina Ricci, and is based on a Guy de Maupassant novel from 1885. Sony says that the film will hit theaters next February, in between the final two “Twilight” movies. |
‘Tabloid’ star sues Errol Morris for defamation Posted: 04 Nov 2011 06:38 AM PDT The incredibly strange, willful and seemingly crazy ex-beauty queen who is the subject of Errol Morris’s latest documentary, “Tabloid,” has hit him with a lawsuit over how she comes off in the film. Joyce McKinney apparently conspired to fly to the UK to kidnap and imprison a Mormon missionary, having sex with him over the course of a long weekend and thus corrupting him, became a British tabloid sensation in the 1970s, and told her story with a straight-faced twinkle in Morris’ film. The movie lets the viewer decide how much of the story was tabloid sensationalism and how loony the woman really is. But now that it’s out of theaters, she’s decided she didn’t like it and is suing for defamation, emotional distress, misrepresentation, the works. Morris has been sued before, even by the guy he freed from prison in “The Thin Blue Line.” |
Posted: 04 Nov 2011 03:21 AM PDT Paul Rudd and Jen Aniston are out f work New Yorkers, on the road, first to the South, then to a hippy commune in this February comedy. If it’s too cold to “Occupy Wall Street,” perhaps protesters can meet and see ’60s cliches recycled for this farce. Alan Alda, Malin Akerman, some cute bits but nothing laugh-out-loud funny in the trailer. |
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