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Adam Sandler plays both Jack and Jill. Can an Oscar nomination be far behind?
28 October 2009 9:57 PM, PDT
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This month's new Adam Sandler movie project to report is officially classified as set with the romantic comedy genre. Since I am such a huge fan of Mr. Sandler's material, especially the movies where he acts like an emotionally stunted man-child (oh wait, that's nearly all* Adam Sandler movies! Silly me!), I can't let it slip by my attention about the facts concerning his new project, Jack and Jill.
Variety's Tatiana Siegel, who's more polite in holding back any derision she has for Sandler, spills some facts about the movie but doesn't have more of the movie's premise save for the factoid that the SNL-er will be playing both the Jack and the Jill twin brother and sister roles in the film. How the rest of the film is shaped storywise remains a mystery for now, much like the fate of Amelia Earhart, the location of Jimmy Hoffa and
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- Patrick Sauriol
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Adam Sandler Will Play Both Jack and Jill in a Jack and Jill Movie
28 October 2009 9:46 AM, PDT
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Adam Sandler has fallen into a relatively diverse career. After his star-making turn on "Saturday Night Live," I've enjoyed his immature comedic stylings in films like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, but it's Sandler's performances in Reign Over Me, Punch-Drunk Love (a personal favorite) and recently Funny People which have commanded my respect in showing he can do much more than silly voices and sudden bursts into angry fits of rage. But it looks like Sandler is navigating back into more comedic grounds as Variety announces he will take on twin roles as the twin siblings in the romantic comedy Jack and Jill.
Of course Sandler will be producing under his Happy Madison banner with longtime partner Jack Giarraputo, but no word on who will be directing the script written by Steve Koren (Bruce Almighty) who has worked with Sandler since his days back at "SNL" and on films like Click.
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- Ethan Anderton
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North American box office: ‘Funny People’ not laughing so much
5 August 2009 10:19 AM, PDT
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If you consider that Funny People is actually a drama, and not a comedy, it opened pretty well compared to other Adam Sandler dramas -- Reign Over Me opened to only about $7 million in 2007, and Punch-Drunk Love to only $367,203 in 2002 (though that was on only 5 screens, for a whopping per-screen average of $73,440; Reign’s was $4,464, and Funny People’s is $7,535). If you consider that Judd Apatow made his name with mainstream audiences with raunchy comedies, and that this film was marketed as a comedy, it’s a pretty poor opening. When you consider that likely most of the audience who turned up for the film thought they were getting another Apatow comedy, we’re probably gonna see this take a huge drop next weekend. Can I predict? I’m gonna save 70 percent.
Half-Blood Prince hung on fairly well this weekend thanks in large part to its arrive on IMAX screens.
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: August 4, 2009
4 August 2009 12:30 AM, PDT
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Unfortunately it's a very bad week for DVD and Blu-ray releases, but let's rundown the list anyway as maybe some of you are looking forward to at least renting one or two of these.
The Soloist
The best new film of the bunch has to be The Soloist, but even it isn't a stand-out masterpiece by any stretch. It does have a couple of good performances and is certainly worth a once over, but as far as being a purchase I would definitely recommend against it.
Mutant Chronicles
This action-sci-fi feature starring Thomas Jane, John Malkovich and Ron Perlman is probably the title I am most interested in renting and a little upset I forgot to request a review copy, but Netflix will take care of that.
Race to Witch Mountain
Ugh, just a bad, bad movie. Kids may
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- Brad Brevet
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Funny People Gets Last Laugh?
2 August 2009 11:25 AM, PDT
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If you think Funny People was tough to figure out as a movie—Is it a comedy? Is it a drama?—try making sense of its box office debut.
The Judd Apatow-directed, Adam Sandler-fronted hybrid grossed $23.4 million Friday-Sunday, per estimates, enough to top the weekend standings.
And while the take reigned over Reign Over Me, Spanglish and Sandler's other uncomic pieces, it didn't really stack up, dollar for dollar, with Apatow's previous films.
Crunching the numbers:
• In comedy, timing is everything. With Funny People, definition is everything. "If you consider it a dramedy, it's a success," Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said today. "If you
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Box Office Report: 'Funny People' laughs to No. 1 with $23.4 mil
2 August 2009 11:03 AM, PDT
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It was a glass half-full, glass half-empty kind of weekend at the box office for Funny People, writer-director Judd Apatow's comedic meditation on fame, humor, life, and death. According to figures from Hollywood.com Box Office, it opened at the top spot with an estimated $23.4 million, better than Apatow's The 40 Year-Old Virgin ($21.4 million) -- hence, the glass is half full. But that figure is far lower than the debut for Apatow's Knocked Up ($30.7 million), and it's the worst opening for a comedy for star Adam Sander since his 2000 turkey Little Nicky -- hence, the glass is half empty. Of course, Funny People was billed more as a thoughtful dramedy than a balls-out Sandler laugh-fest, and when matched against the opening frames for Sandler's serious efforts Reign Over Me, Spanglish, and Punch-Drunk Love, Funny People is far and away the winner -- and the glass is half full again.
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- Adam B. Vary
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Funny People Review
31 July 2009 10:51 PM, PDT
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After You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, I thought I was done with the collaborations of former roommates Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow. Having tried Sandler’s silly style, I guess the partnership thought maybe they should try something for adults this time. The result is Funny People, an odd mixture of depth, laughs, loneliness, and ambition that perhaps works out too much material in its 149 minutes.
Never one for brevity, Apatow directs another rambling movie about relationships that delivers plenty of laughs but could use an edit from an impartial party. What starts out as a smart comedy for fans of funny and centers on revelations stemming from a leukemia diagnosis turns into a meandering subplot about lost love. While most movies usually span three acts of arching development, this one goes halfsies on terminal illness (actually quite Funny) and the importance of close relationships (there’s your People). However,
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- Jeff Leins
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Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 07.31.09
31 July 2009 12:30 PM, PDT
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Funny People
Studio: Universal
Rated: R for language and crude sexual humor throughout, and some sexuality.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana and Jonah Hill
Directed by: Judd Apatow
What it’s about: Adam Sandler plays an acerbic version of himself – a dorky stand-up comedian who has made it big in Hollywood. However, even though he’s got tons of money and fame, he has no real friends, and he has long since alienated the only woman he has ever loved. When he discovers that he has a rare form of leukemia, he hires a new assistant (Seth Rogen) and tries to put his life in order before he dies.
What I liked: First, let me say that this film is not a comedy. Sure, it’s being billed as one, but it’s really a drama with a lot of funny lines. Like the mid-80s forgotten Tom Hanks/Sally Field vehicle Punch
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- Kevin Carr
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Is Adam Sandler Really the Most Valuable Comedian?
16 April 2009 2:45 PM, PDT
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Forbes has released its Most Valuable Comedians list, and through some intricate calculations I stopped studying after high school, came up with Adam Sandler as Hollywood's most powerful laugh riot, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
Sandler is gaining traction not only because of his starring roles in such critic-proof movies as You Don't Mess with the Zohan and I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, but because he can also occasionally show off some real acting chops as in 2007's Reign Over Me and Punch-Drunk Love. The number of movies he's producing and has in development under Happy Madison Productions are growing in number. And despite its premise, this summer's Funny People, which stars Sandler as a comedian dying of cancer who mentors a younger comedian, has quite a number of big names attached. Judd Apatow wrote, directed, and produced the film; Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill costar.
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'Shadow of the Colossus' Game Goes from Being in a Movie to Becoming a Movie
8 April 2009 3:11 AM, PDT
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I remember after watching Reign Over Me wondering if the videogame Adam Sandler's character was obsessed with playing was real or not. I believe I went home to search for it, but don't remember anything beyond that... Not like it mattered, really, but the game is real and "Shadow of the Colossus" is no longer going to be a plot point in a movie as much as it is going to be the plot point of a movie as Risky Biz Blog announces Sony has brought in Justin Marks to pen a feature adaptation.
The game centers on the character Wander, who along with his horse Agro travels across a Western-style landscape to defeat enemies known as Collosi, with Wander's larger aim to save the girl Mono. Steve Zeitchik and Borys Kit at Risky Biz describe the game's landscape as minimalist, saying it lacks some of the ensemble characters of other video games; instead,
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- Brad Brevet
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Sony's Shadow of the Colossus Headed to the Big Screen
7 April 2009 1:58 PM, PDT
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One of the most cinematic games is now making it way towards cinemas. The Shadow of the Colossus video game is being developed by producer Kevin Misher (Fighting, Public Enemies, Case 39) at Columbia Pictures. Hollywood's new favorite fanboy writer, Justin Marks of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Voltron, and Masters of the Universe, has been hired to write the screenplay. The game, which first hit shelves in 2005, follows a character known as Wander, who along with his horse Agro, travels across a western-style landscape to defeat enemies known as Collosi, while Wander tries to save the girl Mono.
This isn't the first time the game has been seen in the movies - it was featured in Reign Over Me, although those scenes just had Adam Sandler playing the game. Shadow of the Colossus was not only a big hit in sales, but also a big hit with critics,
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- Alex Billington
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Review: Bedtime Stories
27 January 2009 11:56 AM, PST
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Adam Sandler's latest movie finds the funny man collaborating with
the fine folks at Disney . if you can believe that! The end result is
the gentle but tepid family film Bedtime Stories.
In Bedtime
Stories, Sandler plays Skeeter Bronson, a hotel handy man who
entertains his niece and nephew by telling them fantastical stories
that feature elements inspired by his own underappreciated existence.
As the children become more and more enamored by his tales of fancy,
they begin adding their own little twists to the stories. To Skeeter's
great amazement, many of these odd twists . including a massive
gum-ball storm - become a reality. Is there a higher power at work, or
are these strange happenings merely bizarre coincidences?
Bedtime
Stories is harmless enough. In fact, it is by far the least crude of
Sandler's infantile catalog, and this is coming from a fan. Infantile
and Sandler go together like chocolate and peanut butter.
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