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Will Melissa McCarthy Be the Next Will Ferrell or the Next Jack Black?
58 minutes ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
The Heat grossed an impressive $40 million this weekend, putting it on track to be Melissa McCarthy's second hit comedy in the last six months. Sure, some of that had to do with co-lead Sandra Bullock, a genuine movie star. But Bullock was the straight woman; it was McCarthy who had to bear most of the comedic burden. This was also the case in Identity Thief, which got middling reviews yet did incredibly well, grossing $135 million domestically on the back of McCarthy's appeal. On a weekend when the fourth-place debut of Channing Tatum's White House Down dampened Hollywood's hopes that they had a new action star who could ensure surefire hits, McCarthy has emerged as comedy's new sure thing ... at least for now. But how long can it last? She's at a point where the decisions she makes over the next few years could either position her as »
- Jesse David Fox,Josh Wolk
Ice Cube's Taking Kevin Hart (and Audiences) on a Hilarious 'Ride Along'
1 hour ago | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Buddy action movies rise and fall on the chemistry shared between the leads. Audiences felt Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy had plenty, so The Heat became a weekend smash. The same ticket buyers didn’t buy into Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, so White House Down struggled. Ride Along shouldn’t have such problems. Pairing comedian Kevin Hart with tough guy Ice Cube for a buddy-cop comedy looks like a masterstroke, if the teaser trailer for Tim Story’s upcoming film is any indication. The set up is short, sweet and incredibly simple. Hart plays a security guard who’s trying to impress his girlfriend’s brother (Ice Cube). In order to prove himself, he agrees to go on a police-sanctioned Ride Along....
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Watch: Ice Cube Takes Kevin Hart on a 'Ride Along' in Teaser Trailer
1 hour ago | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
After Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock took the box office by storm with an impressive opening weekend of just over $39 million for their R-rated cop comedy The Heat, next year will see Kevin Hart and Ice Cube team up in a squad car as well. Ride Along is a new comedy from Think Like a Man and Fantastic Four director Tim Story which follows high-school security guard Ben (Hart) trying desperately to show decorated Atlanta detective James (Cube) that he’s more than just a video-game junkie who’s unworthy of James’ sister, Angela (Tika Sumpter). The only way to do that is to go on a ride along. Watch! Here's the teaser trailer for Tim Story's Ride Along from the film's YouTube channel: When a fast-talking guy (Kevin Hart) joins his girlfriend’s brother (Ice Cube), a hot-tempered cop, to patrol the streets of Atlanta, he gets entangled »
- Ethan Anderton
Watch: Sandra Bullock Explains That Kiss
3 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Remember that infamous kiss between Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep at the 2010 Critics' Choice Awards?
At the time, we didn't think there was much more to the story, but as Bullock explains on a recent episode of BBC's "The Graham Norton Show," it's all about what goes on behind the scenes.
"What was the award show when you locked lips?" the British host asks in the video, after bringing up the time Bullock beat out Streep for "Best Actress."
"You mean where she asked for it?" Bullock quips.
"She was egging me on this entire time," Bullock continues, recalling when Streep sent her flowers after she won the Academy Award in 2010. "Up comes this nice bottom part with three dead orchids on it and note that said 'Die, bitch. Love, Meryl.'"
So Bullock was determined to get her back.
Streep may be one of the greatest actresses, but she's »
- Sara Gates
Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy in The Heat: 3 More Awesome Female Cop Partners
3 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
How's this for a dose of girl power? In the newly released flick The Heat, which took the No. 2 spot at the box office this weekend, A-listers Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy get teamed up as uptight FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn and gutsy Boston cop Shannon Mullins in order to take down a ruthless drug lord. With neither of them ever working with a partner before, they immediately face some power struggles (which is always fun to watch). But their pairing instantly becomes one of our favorite female cop duos, along with these three 1. Rizzoli & Isles: This TNT series stars Angie Harmon as police detective Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, fighting »
Marrieds at the Movies: 'The Heat' Overcomes Some Glaring Flaws. Also: Boobs
3 hours ago | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Every Friday night, Movies.com sends cinephiles (and newlyweds) Sarah and Joe Piccirillo to see a film. Afterwards, they answer a few questions about it. Below is their discussion. The Heat Synopsis: Can by-the-book FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) work with local detective Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) to take down a drug lord? Think Bad Boys meets Bridesmaids. Plus, Joey McIntyre. Was this a good date movie? Joe: After enduring Identity Thief I was dreading this movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. For a date movie, it’s okay – it’s funny and harmless. There’s a lot of estrogen here and that’s either a blessing or a curse. Sarah: It didn’t create a sexy vibe. Despite buckets of...
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'White House Down' flops at the box office: What went wrong?
3 hours ago | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
"White House Down" was supposed to be one of the surefire hits of the summer.
Channing Tatum became a bona fide movie star last year with a sleeper hit trifecta of "The Vow," "21 Jump Street" and "Magic Mike" (not to mention being named People's Sexiest Man Alive). Jamie Foxx was coming off his biggest box office success to date with the Oscar nominated "Django Unchained." And director Roland Emmerich has experience both directing blockbuster hits ("2012," "The Day After Tomorrow") and destroying the White House in a patriotic summer movie sensation ("Independence Day").
But even with that pedigree and high profile pre-release hype dating all the way back to Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars ABC special (where Foxx and Tatum turned catchy/silly slow jam "Channing All Over Your Tatum" into a viral hit), "White House Down" shocked Hollywood with a embarrassingly limp $25.7 million estimated opening weekend.
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- editorial@zap2it.com
Sandra and Louis Spend a Smiley Day at the Museum
4 hours ago | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
Sandra Bullock and her son, Louis, spent a sweet afternoon at the Natural History Museum in La on Friday. The twosome held hands as they walked around the park, where Louis sported a big grin on his face. Sandra made the most of her time on the West Coast before heading to Sydney over the weekend to promote The Heat. She touched down at the airport in Australia on Sunday and boarded a boat in Sydney Harbor this morning. Sandra has been hard at work on the film's press tour lately - she premiered the buddy cop flick in NYC alongside costar Melissa McCarthy last week, and we sat down with them to talk about their hilarious collaboration. Monday morning brought good news for the girls, as it was announced that the action-comedy took second place in its opening weekend after Disney-Pixar's Monsters University. View Slideshow › »
- Brittney Stephens
The Heat Movie Review
4 hours ago | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
I was sitting in the theater one day sitting through 20 minutes of trailers as well all do these days and low and behold a trailer comes up starring Sandra Bullock as an FBI agent people don’t really respect only this time Melissa McCarthy was also along for the ride. I would have bet my [...]
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- Luke
Watch: Samuel L. Jackson on Why He Has a Purple Lightsaber in 'Star Wars' and What's Written on It
5 hours ago | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
The great thing about sitting down with Samuel L. Jackson is that you can literally ask him anything. He's not offended by much, and he knows how to spin a good story. Here he is on The Graham Norton Show alongside Sandra Bullock and Nick Frost talking about why he had the only purple lightsaber in the Star Wars prequels. According to Jackson he requested the color so that he'd be able to identify himself among all the Jedi in the big Attack of the Clones battle sequence. He also claims to own the lightsaber he used for filming and that it has the words "Bad Motherf**ker" etched across the handle. Of course he does! And it's videos like this that we'll show future generations when they ask why we loved this man so much. Even if this story is...
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- Erik Davis
The Heat hot at the box office but Monsters University rules
5 hours ago | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy brought The Heat against Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx at the box office.
The Fox action-comedy starring the funny ladies as mismatched detectives earned $40 million in second place in its opening weekend, topping the $25.7 million debut haul of Sony's White House Down, according to studio estimates.
The Disney-Pixar animated prequel Monsters University remained box-office valedictorian in its second weekend, earning $46.1 million in first place. »
- Cineplex.com and contributors
Hollywood’s Newest Half-Billion-Dollar Star: Melissa McCarthy Is Box Office Gold
6 hours ago | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Well, turns out that Melissa McCarthy is bankable, and not just as an amusing bit player (though she can do that) or an Emmy-winning television actress (yup, she did that, too) or as a scene-stealing supporting actress (even though she does that, and particularly did that while also stealing puppies), but as an honest-to-goodness comedy star. Not sure about that, are you? What if we told you that McCarthy is now a half-billion-dollar star, co-starring in just five films in the past two years that have racked up more than five hundred million dollars at the domestic box office alone? McCarthy’s latest starring film, The Heat, is currently estimated to have pulled in a tidy $40m at the weekend box office, which brings McCarthy’s domestic box office haul since her breakout role in Bridesmaids to a cool $521m (including Bridesmaids, This is 40, Identity Thief, The Hangover Part III, and »
- Kate Erbland
'The Heat 2'? Paul Feig Already at Work on Sequel to Hit Cop Comedy
6 hours ago | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Audiences have warmed up to "The Heat," with the Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock buddy cop comedy hauling in $40 million on its opening weekend. So it makes sense, then, that director Paul Feig would already be at work on a sequel.
"We've got ['The Heat' screenwriter] Katie Dippold writing away on one," Feig told Yahoo! Movies. "We had an idea that we thought was really fun. ... I just love these characters so much. I want to see them fighting more crime and having more fun."
Considering the film's surprise smash success at the box office, it looks like audiences want to see more of Mullins and Ashburn, too. And that success could also work out for another project Feig had been developing, called "Dumb Jock," which was to star McCarthy and "Bridesmaids" co-star Jon Hamm.
"I'm writing with them in mind," Feig said in a 2011 interview with Movieline, "and it's just a love »
- Katie Roberts
Weekend Box Office: America starting to respect, maybe even love its comically mismatched buddies
6 hours ago | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Given the choice between two duos of hilariously mismatched size and sensibility, audiences gave the slight edge to Monsters University over The Heat this weekend, preferring to watch a bickering friendship blossom against the ivory walls of monster academia, rather than the far uglier streets of South Boston. Still, The Heat’s $40 million take was a much bigger victory than its second-place finish might suggest: Not only did its opening outpace Bridesmaids, it also beat out The Blind Side to become Sandra Bullock’s highest-opening film ever, reaffirming the film’s overarching lesson that Sandra Bullock should just loosen »
What Went Wrong?
9 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
"White House Down" is a flop, no matter how many fans of the film chastise the American public for not showing up. Roland Emmerich's latest feature was budgeted at a reported $150 million, but earned just $25.7 million at the box office this past weekend. That's a lower opening weekend tally than 2013 disasters like "After Earth," "Jack the Giant Slayer" and "The Hangover Part III"; that's lower than the R-rated, similarly themed "Olympus Has Fallen"; that's just $200,000 more than "Battleship."
"We couldn't be more proud or supportive of the film Roland, Channing and Jamie created. This weekend's launch is just the beginning," a Sony spokesperson said to THR. "While 'White House Down' opened in a few smaller countries this weekend, it will not begin to open in major overseas territories until mid-July and it will continue to roll out overseas well into the fall."
That optimism aside, "White House Down »
- The Huffington Post
Discuss: Why Do Big-Budget Action Films Bomb in Theaters?
10 hours ago | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
Brad Pitt's $200 million "World War Z" zombie film was all set to be a huge flop in theaters, until positive reviews started appearing online at the last second. Now it looks like the movie has a small chance of becoming profitable, barely. At the same time, Will Smith's $130 million "After Earth" sci-fi film and Channing Tatum's $150 million "White House Down" action movie surprisingly bombed in theaters. And Guillermo Del Toro's $220 million "Pacific Rim" and Johnny Depp's $250 million "The Lone Ranger" are on track to flop as well. So one must wonder, with why do films with top movie stars, based on popular properties, with huge budgets and talented directors keep flopping? Steven Spielberg and George Lucas recently predicted that studios would focus more on big-budget films for theatrical release, while dumping smaller budget movies straight to DVD, VOD or TV. But that doesn't seem to be the case, »
Box Office: Why Did Moviegoers Vote Against 'White House Down'?
12 hours ago | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
The action showdown this weekend was supposed to be a dead heat, so to speak. "The Heat" and "White House Down" were both supposed to open around $35 million. Both earned very good word-of-mouth, as measured by equal A- grades at CinemaScore. If anything, the Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx action thriller had a slight edge over the Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy action comedy.
And yet, when the dust cleared, "The Heat" debuted with an estimated $40.0 million, well above expectations, while "White House Down" fizzled with an estimated $25.7 million, well below the most pessimistic prediction.
What went wrong? Here are some possible reasons "White House Down" made so few moviegoers' ballots.
"Olympus Has Fallen" Stole Its Thunder. Moviegoers may have found "WHD"'s terrorists-seize-the-White-House scenario overly familiar. After all, it's been only three months since the similar "Olympus Has Fallen" became a sleeper hit. And that movie opened with a surprisingly strong $30.4 million, a figure "WHD" couldn't match. (By the way, "Olympus" is still in theaters. It was No. 24 on the chart this weekend, earning an estimated $104,000 in its 15th week, for a total of $98.8 million, a total "WHD" may have trouble reaching.) »
- Gary Susman
UK movie releases: July 2013
13 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
July 5, 2013
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher
Running time: 115 mins
Certificate: 12A
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Emma Watson, Taissa Farmiga
Running time: 90 mins
Certificate: 15
Director: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston
Running time: 116 mins
Certificate: PG
A Field in England
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Julian Barratt, Michael Smiley
Running time: 90 mins
Certificate: 15
July 12, 2013
Director: Dan Scanlon
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate: U
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Idris Elba, Charlie Day
Running time: 131 mins
Certificate: 12A
Director: Iain Softley
Starring: Tuppence Middleton, Alexandra Roach
Running time: 100 mins
Certificate: 15
We Steal Secrets
Director: Alex Gibney
Starring: Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo
Running time: 130 mins
Certificate: 15
Akira (re-release)
Director: Katsuhiro Ohtomo
Starring: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki
Running time: 119 mins
Certificate: 15
July 19, 2013
Director: Drake Doremus
Starring: Felicity Jones, »
'Monster University' rules box office for 2nd consecutive weekend
13 hours ago | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
Washington, July 1: Disney-Pixar animated prequel 'Monsters University retained the top spot at box-office for the second week with 46.1-million-dollar earnings.
Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy starrer 'The Heat' earned 40 million dollars to land in second place in its opening weekend, Fox News reported.
Paramount's zombie thriller 'World War Z' was at 3 rd place with 29.8 million dollars.
'White House Down' was placed at fourth place with 25.7-million-dollar debut haul.
The top 10 movie at the box office are:
1. 'Monsters University' - 46.1 million dollars
2. 'The Heat' - 40 million dollars
3. 'World War Z' - 29.8 million dollars
4. 'White House Down' - 25.7 million dollars
5. 'Man. »
- Ketali Mehta
Monsters University Defeats The Heat and Channing Tatum, Too
13 hours ago | BuzzSugar | See recent BuzzSugar news »
Despite lots of big stars headlining two new movies this weekend, the new releases were no match for Pixar sequel Monsters University, which took the top box office for the second week in a row, earning $46.2 million. The Heat may not have been No. 1, but the Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy comedy still raked in an impressive $40 million, beating World War Z, which earned $29.8 million, and fellow new release White House Down, which only pulled in $25.7 million. Hanging on to fifth place was Man of Steel, which made $20.8 million in its third week in release. »
- Shannon Vestal
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