Hollywood is in a June swoon as a rush of new movies fails to grab audiences.
“Shrek Forever After” remained the No. 1 movie for a third-straight weekend with $25.3 million.
The best of the newcomers was the rock ‘n’ roll comedy “Get Him to the Greek,” which debuted at No. 2 with $17.4 million. Opening at No. 3 was the action comedy “Killers” with $16.1 million.
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Went to the screening of “Sex and the City 2″ last night, surrounded by groups of well-dressed ladies having a Monday Girls- Night Out, black dresses, sexy heels and all (!) I don’t want to give too much away, but here are five things to watch out for when the film is released to the rest of the Cosmo-loving public on Friday:
— The HBO series made a point of not dwelling too much in the ladies’ pasts (something I always thought was a detriment, but that’s me). But in the initial moments of the sequel, there are some emotionally satisfying, cleverly-edited flashes of the less-polished, un-Fashionista youths they used to be.
It’s a good time to be Alex O’Loughlin. He’s in The Back-Up Plan with Jennifer Lopez — which by the way had a pretty solid first week, finishing second to 3-D juggernaut How To Train Your Dragon.
He’s also in the pilot for the revamped Hawaii Five-0, playing McGarrett.
And he even helps an entire audience win a CD from the movie, and one lucky teacher a whole lot more. Plus he’s got a pretty nice voice…
From The Rachael Ray Show:
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will be back in black. Men in Black, that is. And in 3-D no less.
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Director/producer Barry Sonnenfeld told Showbiz411.com that Smith and Jones have signed on for the multi-dimensional sequel. All the project needs now is a script. The Web site predicts that the latest addition to blockbuster sci-fi franchise will hit theaters sometime in Summer 2011.
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Men in Black is the latest in a number of film franchises using the eye-popping technology to boost ticket sales. Next month, the fourth Shrek feature, Shrek Forever After, hits theaters in 3-D, and later this summer, Pixar’s highly anticipated Toy Story 3 gets the 3-D treatment.
But the in-your-face effect isn’t relegated to just animated and blockbuster films. A gore-filled re-imagining of the 1978 horror flick Piranha, appropriately titled Piranha 3-D, will chomp its way into theaters this August.
One thing hasn’t changed with “Shrek”: Puss in Boots still steals the show.
The fourth and supposedly final “Shrek” film, “Shrek Forever After,” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night at New York’s Ziegfeld Theatre.
It was a glitzy affair for the film, the first in the franchise to be released in 3-D. Given the box-office boost 3-D films have seen — particularly since “Avatar” — the film’s studio, Dreamworks, expects a 3-D “Shrek” to cap a franchise that has already earned more than $1 billion at the domestic box office.
“Shrek Forever After,” which will be released May 21, returns the voice cast of Mike Myers (Shrek), Cameron Diaz (Fiona), Eddie Murphy (Donkey) and Antonio Banderas as Puss in Boots, the Zorro-like feline.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two children and two years later, Jennifer Lopez has resurfaced with a “Back-up Plan.”
“This movie is about a woman who gets to a point in her life,” Lopez says. “She’s successful … She has a full life. But, at the same time, she hasn’t found that person to share her life with and to have a family with, and so she decides to do it on her own. She decides to have a baby on her own.”
The film, opening Friday, is part of the mid-life movie genre that has served actresses well of late, including such blockbusters as “The Proposal” and “It’s Complicated,” starring Sandra Bullock, 45, and Meryl Streep, 60, respectively. “The Back-up Plan” marks Lopez’s first film since turning 40 last July.
News: Corey Haim found dead in Los Angeles
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Corey Haim, who was found dead this morning, likely of a drug overdose, wasn’t in any John Hughes movies, but I weirdly thought of him a few nights ago when Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall et al, did a tribute to the late director at the Oscars.
Those actors, like Haim, are representatives of my generation’s youth, and their appearance as middle aged people represented that we are just not young anymore. And for some reason, I remember thinking about other ’80s youthful icons like Corey Haim and his buddy, Corey Feldman, because they represent something else about aging — the Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda guys that you never want to show up as at the high school reunion, because you’ve taken all your bright shining potential and just clowned it.
Bill Murray might well be up for Ghostbusters 3. But apparently, he won’t be in it for long — at least, not the way he has been in the first two movies.
Murray revealed in a fun interview with British newspaper The Mail that he would do the film, but only if they kill off his character, Peter Venkman, right away:
I said to them, ‘I’ll do it if you kill me off in the first reel.’ So now they are going to have me as a ghost in the film.
Murray also talks about his golf game — one thing he’s never shy about discussing — and the fact that having the reputation of being a difficult actor isn’t bad at all:
At work I’m just nothing but trouble with anything I don’t want to do. And I fired my agents. I said I didn’t ever want to speak to them again, and I never did. It saved me money but mostly it stopped the irritation of the endless phone calls.
Sci-fi site io9 is among those saying Ghostbusters 3 will begin filming this summer.
Mel Brooks has made audiences laugh for more than a half century, but it was his wife, the late Anne Bancroft, who made him smile.
It’s been nearly five years since the actress passed away, but not a day goes by that Brooks doesn’t think about her.
“I had 45 of the greatest years of my life,” Brooks says.
During a recent interview, the 83-year old Brooks recalled their first meeting in 1961. It was on the set of “The Perry Como Show” in New York, where Bancroft was performing a song called “Married, I Could Always Get.” After she finished, she was greeted by Brooks who proclaimed, “I’m Mel Brooks and I’m going to marry you.”
Bancroft responded: “Hey, I have your record.” She was referring to the classic comedy album Brooks did with Carl Reiner, “The Two-Thousand Year Old Man.”
“The album came out in 1960, and this was Feb. 5, 1961,” Brooks recalls. “From that day, until her death on June 5, 2005, we were glued together.”
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Broken Lizard, the five-guy filmmaking comedy group best known for Super Troopers, Beerfest, and Club Dread performed live at the Palm Beach Improv on Jan. 22-23. While these guys are known to have knee-slappingly funny-movies, their stand up show only got a few giggles.
Broken Lizard formed at Colgate University as a student sketch group. After graduating, moving to New York, and performing in a few stand-up shows, the five guys went on to movie making. Their films resemble traditional fraternity-style films such as Animal House, Porky’s, and Revenge of the Nerds.
Now, the group of five guys has returned to the world to stand-up, embarking on a nationwide tour. But after the show they gave at the Improv this past weekend, their return to their stand-up roots gives off doubt.
The show started off well, when the boys walked onto the stage with their Super Troopers cop outfits on. Jokes from their films were told and sketches were performed, but as time went on the laughter in the room seemed to get dim. The sketches were a little hard to understand and the jokes were a little old.
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