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Life moves pretty fast… evidenced by the fact that it has been 39 years since Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck first starred together in John Hughes' 1986 landmark comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Now the duo are in talks to reunite for Jon Turteltaub's upcoming feature film The Best Is Yet to Come, which is based on the French movie of the same name, per Deadline. The project is sure to bring some big laughs, as the two actors would once again be stepping out as best friends and embarking on a new road trip for another crazy adventure.

The new take on The Best Is Yet to Come is scripted by Allan Loeb, who has experience writing comedies, having penned the likes of The Dilemma and Just Go with It. The story of this one centers around two best friends who decide to hit the road after a colossal misunderstanding...

Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are teaming up for a new movie!

The two actors will be reuniting on screen in The Best Is Yet to Come, their first project since starring as best friends in the 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Deadline reports.

Keep reading to find out more…

Deals are reportedly still in the final stages, but filming is looking to take place this summer.

In the upcoming movie, they are set to once again “play best friends who, through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and also try to do all the things that life has prevented them from doing.”

It is an adaptation of a French film of the same name, released in 2019, which was directed by Alexandre de La Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte.

The new version will be written and executive produced by Allan Loeb,...

Ferris Bueller's Day Offstars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are reuniting for a new road trip comedy.

Per Deadline, Broderick and Ruck have signed on for the leading roles in director Allan Loeb's upcoming feature film, The Best Is Yet to Come. Written by Jon Turtletaub, The Best Is Yet To Come will mark the first time that Broderick and Ruck have reunited on the silver screen since the release of Ferris Bueller's Day Off all the way back in 1986.

The Best Is Yet To Come will star Broderick and Ruck as two best friends who end up in a race against time after a misunderstanding spirals out of control. The film is based on the 2019 French film of the same name (Le meilleur reste à venir) from the co-writers/directors Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière. The original starred Fabrice Luchini and Patrick Bruel in the...

Bueller? Bueller? Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are in talks to reunite for The Best Is Yet To Come, an upcoming comedy from screenwriter Allan Loeb with Jon Turteltaub in the director’s chair. The project is based on the French film of the same name, with Amy Baer producing via Gidden Media and executive producer Dimitri Rassam, who made the 2019 original. In addition to penning the script, Loeb will also executive produce.

If they sign on the dotted line, Broderick and Ruck will play best friends who, through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and also try to do all the things that life has prevented them from doing.

Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck played Ferris Beuller and Cameron Frye in the 1986 John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

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Say "honey yes!" to the Honey Don't! trailer

Director Ethan Coen's Honey Don't! will rocket to the top of your most anticipated movies list after you watch its new trailer. The noir comedy stars Margaret Qualley as Honey O’Donahue, a private investigator looking into a string of mysterious deaths tied to a cultish church led by Priest Dean (Chris Evans). The trailer has that classic Coen crime caper energy, with a little more sex appeal than usual. The film is written by Coen and Tricia Cooke, who previously worked with Qualley on Drive Away Dolls, and also stars Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner. It will be in theaters from Focus Features on Aug. 22, following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Two stars from Ferris Bueller's Day Offare reuniting after 39 years in a new comedy movie, titled The Best Is Yet To Come. Written and directed by John Hughes, the classic 1986 teen comedy stars Matthew Broderick as the titular charismatic high school slacker who skips school with his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) and his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) to spend the day in Chicago. The Ferris Bueller's Day Off cast also includes Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett, Lyman Ward, Edie McClurg, Charlie Sheen, Ben Stein, and many more.

Now, according to Deadline, Ferris Bueller's Day Off stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are reuniting in The Best Is Yet To Come. It's described as a comedy, written by Allan Loeb and directed by Jon Turteltaub, and is based on the French film of the same name. Broderick and Ruck are still negotiating, though their deals are reportedly being finalized,...

Ferris Bueller and Cameron Frye are about to have another day off. Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck, on-screen high-school best pals in the classic teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, are set to reunite on the big screen. The duo are in talks to star in The Best Is Yet to Come, a new comedy from Lionsgate. Deadline reports that the film is a remake of a French comedy of the same name.

Broderick and Ruck will star as a pair of lifelong best friends; after a tragicomic misunderstanding, one of them comes to believe that the other only has months to live. The two embark on a road trip (hopefully not in a borrowed 1961 Ferrari Gt) to find the "dying" man's long-estranged son, and to rediscover life along the way. The movie will be directed by Jon Turteltaub, from a script by Allan Loeb. Deals with the two stars are currently being finalized,...

Exclusive: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off stars Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck are negotiating to reunite in The Best Is Yet to Come, a comedy that Allan Loeb scripted and Jon Turteltaub will direct. The film is backed by MRC, and Lionsgate is in talks to distribute. It is based on the French film of the same title.

Amy Baer is producing through her Gidden Media banner, and the executive producer is Dimitri Rassam, who produced the 2019 original through his company Chapter 2. Loeb also will be an EP.

The last time Broderick and Ruck held the screen together, the latter played the disillusioned son of a wealthy man, a dad who seemed to prize his 1961 Ferrari 250 Gt California Spyder more than his son. That led the kid to launch the classic car out a glass window, a dilemma even his best pal Ferris (Broderick) is hard pressed to fix. Here,...

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Kinda Pregnant is a romantic comedy film directed by Tyler Spindel from a screenplay co-written by Julie Paiva and Amy Schumer. The 2025 film follows Lainy, a woman who gets jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and begins wearing a fake belly. Things take a turn for the weird when she meets the perfect guy for her. Kinda Pregnant stars Amy Schumer, Jillian Bell, Brianne Howey, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Chris Geere, Alex Moffat, and Lizze Broadway. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, tinge of romance, and an entertaining story in Kinda Pregnant, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Labor Pains is a romantic comedy film directed by Lara Shapiro from a screenplay by Stacy Kramer. The 2009 film follows Thea, a young woman fearing losing her job...

Netflix has recently been the place to find Adam Sandler thanks to his huge first-look deal with the streamer, but now fans of the actor are also enjoying his 2011 romantic comedy Just Go With It. The film has surged up the U.S. Netflix chart since arriving on the platform, allowing audiences who flocked to watch Sandlers team-up with Jennifer Aniston in two Murder Mystery movies to see the pairs first collaboration.

Just Go With It is a typical Sandler offering, in which he plays successful plastic surgeon Daniel Maccabee, who pretends to be in a failing marriage to avoid commitment. When he finally meets a woman he does actually want to have a relationship with, he asks his assistant, Kathrine played by Aniston, to pretend to be his soon-to-be-ex-wife. As is the nature of rom-coms, things get complicated very quickly as lies spiral out of control, and the laughs comewell,...

More often than not, a film's remake doesn't live up to the original. Add Adam Sandler's comedy into the mix of a remake, and it will certainly be a stinker. Sandler's 2011 film Just Go with It marked a low point for the actor's career, winning the actor a Razzie for his performance, even though it was based on an Oscar-winning film.

The plot of Just Go with It focuses on Adam Sandler's character, Dr. Danny Maccabee when he gets caught in a lie while wooing a girl. Danny still owns a wedding ring from a marriage that never lasted past the wedding day, and as he's flirting with a teacher, she finds his ring. She thinks he's using her to cheat on his wife, but he tells her he's going through a divorce. He convinces his assistant, played by Jennifer Aniston, to pretend to be his wife, so he can keep up the lie.

Paramount+ has announced that the new six-part docuseries Mafia Spies, directed by Tom Donahue and produced by CreativeChaos in association with Danny Strong Productions and See It Now Studios, will premiere on the service on Tuesday, July 16 in the U.S. and Canada.

The series will be available on Wednesday, July 17, in the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Mafia Spies is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

In Mafia Spies, viewers discover real-world spies, gangsters, honeypots, and mistresses that unravel a hidden conspiracy between the CIA and the Chicago mob to assassinate Fidel Castro at a critical time in the Cold War; President Kennedy made it known that there was no living with Castro with missiles 90 miles from American soil.

Based on the book Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier (Masters of Sex), this action-packed...

No hostage left behind.

So many of your favorite stars have come together to thank President Biden for his efforts in working to peace amid the Israel-Gaza conflict.

Amid the news that two American hostages and two Israeli hostages have been released from captivity, Hollywood heavyweights are hoping for the safe return of the 220 innocent people who are still being held hostage by Hamas.

“We are heartened by Friday’s release of the two American hostages, Judith Ranaan and her daughter Natalie Ranaan and by today’s release of two Israelis, Nurit Cooper and Yocheved Lifshitz, whose husbands remain in captivity,” the letter read.

The letter continued, “But our relief is tempered by our overwhelming concern that 220 innocent people, including 30 children, remain captive by terrorists, threatened with torture and death. They were taken by Hamas in the savage massacre of October 7, where over 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered – women raped, families burned alive,...

A group of screenwriters including Eli Roth, Graham Yost and Amy Chozick have issued an open letter decrying the Writers Guild of America’s silence on last week’s Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

In the letter, posted to the blog site Medium, the screenwriters mention the statements already issued by other Hollywood guilds, including SAG-AFTRA and the directors’ guild.

“When it comes to taking a stand, the Writers Guild of America has always led by example,” the statement said. “When employers sought to exploit our work, the Guild bravely spoke up. When the BLM movement took flight, the Guild rightfully spoke up. When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up. But when terrorists invaded Israel to murder, rape, and kidnap Jews… the Guild stayed silent. It remains the only major Hollywood union to do so.”

SAG-AFTRA and the DGA were among the Hollywood studios,...

Exclusive: Paramount+ International is investigating Mafia Spies.

The streamer has ordered a six-part premium doc series, based on Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier, who wrote the book that Showtime’s Masters of Sex was based on.

The series comes from CreativeChaos, Danny Strong Productions and Jackson Pictures.

Based on never-before-released JFK files, the series tells the shocking connections between the CIA, the mob, and Sinatra’s Rat Pack from Vegas to Miami to Havana. It explores America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue.

In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves...

Exclusive: Renée Zellweger has come attached to star in The Back Nine, a comedy that Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King will direct from a script he wrote with Jhoni Marchinko and Krista Smith. The film is set at Landline Pictures, the new label of MRC Film formed by Amy Baer, the former senior executive at Sony Pictures and CBS Films.

Baer will make this her first film, and she will produce with King. Zellweger and Carmella Casinelli will be executive producers for Big Picture Co., along with Marchinko and Smith.

Zellweger, who is coming off the Best Actress Oscar win for Judy, plays Casey Jones, who gave up a golf career so that her husband could have one. When she wakes up one morning to find her 25-year old marriage in free fall and her son off to college, she dusts off the clubs she tossed aside...

MRC Film has launched Landline Pictures, a new label targeting audiences over 50. Veteran producer Amy Baer has been tapped to lead the new venture.

According to a release announcing the news, Landline Pictures “will focus on uplifting and entertaining stories that are about and targeting the over 50 demographic, yet commercial and conceptual enough to cross over to a broader audience.”

Baer, who will report to MRC Film Co-Presidents Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman, will oversee Landline Pictures’ creative and strategic agenda and serve in a producer capacity on all the label’s projects, with the goal to generate multiple films per year for both theatrical and streaming distribution.

“Amy is a total pro’s pro and we are proud to be partnered with her on this venture. There is a huge opportunity to make humorous and thoughtful movies for this underserved audience,” Adler and Golfman said, announcing the new venture and Baer’s appointment.

Michael Sugar has positioned his Sugar23 management/production business to become the next company to raise new coin to grow and diversify its business. Sugar23 has raised $30 million in funding earmarked to venture beyond its core production business beyond production and into myriad other businesses.

Sugar, who came up in management and production and whose credits include Best Picture-winner Spotlight, signaled some of the changes earlier this week when Meredith Wechter exited as WME partner and agent of such clients as Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Keanu Reeves, with rumors that she will join Sugar as partner in the management ranks of Sugar23. They are figuring out how her clients will intersperse into Sugar23. Sugar’s own clients include Steven Soderbergh, Josh Singer, Allan Loeb, Leslye Headland, Cary Fukunaga, Alena Smith, Jack Amiel & Michael Begler, Carl Bernstein, Greg Poirier and Dan Patrick.

Led by SWaN & Legend Venture Partners and MRC,...

In a move months in the making, Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions has officially hired WME partner Kimberly Bialek as new Executive Vice President of Development and Production, reporting to Seven Bucks’ President of Production, Hiram Garcia.

Bialek exited the agency after 16 years there as a lit agent and partner, though it has long been known she would land at Seven Bucks Productions, whose principals she worked closely with. She also worked with clients that included Henry Cavill, Robert Zemeckis, Anthony & Joe Russo, Randall Wallace, and Allan Loeb. She spent a decade as the agency’s covering agent on Marvel Studios matters, which helped the infiltration of WME clients into superhero films.

“While at WME I was able to watch Seven Bucks grow into the powerhouse that it has become,” Bialek said. “I’m honored to be working with a company and individuals who are driven...

Channing Tatum is set to star in Disney’s long-gestating musical comedy Bob the Musical, Collider has learned. Allan Loeb (Rock of Ages) wrote a draft of the script, which follows a regular guy who can suddenly hear the inner songs of everyone’s heart after suffering a blow to the head. His reality instantly becomes a musical, much to his dismay. Bob the Musical has been in development since 2004 and over the past decade, several filmmakers have circled the project including Phil Lord and Chris Miller and Hairspray’s Adam Shankman. Tripp Vinson and Beau Flynn are …...

Lionsgate Television is developing a series adaptation of B.P. Reiter’s book “The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club” with Common set to star. The project is the first under the overall television deal Lionsgate set earlier this month with Common.

To be produced by Lionsgate and Common’s Freedom Road Productions, “The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club” hails from Eric Eisner’s Double E Pictures. Eisner will exec produce with Allan Loeb and Andrew Farotte set to write the pilot episode.

“The Saturday Night Live Knife & Gun Club” is described as focusing on a tough, street smart ER doctor with a troubled past played by Common leads his staff against brutal conditions, dwindling resources, bureaucracy, and corporate greed in order to save lives at an inner-city hospital. No network has yet been attached to the project.

“I’m thrilled to partner with Lionsgate and Freedom Road to develop this...

Common is hitting the ground running with his new overall deal at Lionsgate Television.

The Emmy-winning rapper is set to star in a TV series adaptation of B.P. Reiter’s “The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club.”

No network or platform is attached to the drama yet, which centers around a tough and street smart ER doctor with a troubled past (Common) who leads his staff against brutal conditions, dwindling resources, bureaucracy and corporate greed in order to save lives at an inner-city hospital.

Common’s Freedom Road Productions and Lionsgate will collaborate with producer Eric Eisner on the TV adaptation. Eisner, founder and CEO of Double E Pictures who optioned the rights, will serve as executive producer. Allan Loeb and Andrew Farotte are penning the pilot script.

Also Read: Common Signs Overall TV Deal With Lionsgate

The Emmy-winning rapper, actor and producer signed his new pact with Lionsgate last week,...

Exclusive: Fox has set Allan Loeb to write an untitled romantic comedy star vehicle for Ryan Reynolds that reunites the actor with Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. They first teamed on the hit The Proposal, the Reynolds-Sandra Bullock coupler that became 2009’s top grossing romantic comedy with $317 million worldwide. Mandeville will produce with Reynolds’ Maximum Effort, which recently made a first look deal at Fox, where he stars as Deadpool. This project…...

Allan Loeb certainly isn’t a household name, but there’s a pretty good chance you’ve might’ve seen one or two of his credited movies. Whether it’s “21,” “The Switch,” “The Dilemma,” “Just Go With It,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” “Rock of Ages” or last year’s regrettable “Collateral Beauty,” just to name a handful, Loeb is one of those screenwriters who’s quick to diversify his resume but never able to prove his skills.

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Marc Webb, who directed one of my all-time favorite rom-coms, (500) Days of Summer, gets it all wrong this time with The Only Living Boy in New York. How do major misfires like this happen? Blame the screenwriter. Summer showed the light touch of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber; Boy is credited to writer Allan Loeb, whose growing rap sheet includes the excruciating Collateral Beauty and The Space Between Us. Even the best actors – and this coming-of-age movie boasts a handful of them – can't fight this much tin-eared dialogue.

The set-up: Thomas,...

Bad-movie lovers tend to be strict auteurists, following the careers of directors like Uwe Boll, Tommy Wiseau or Michael Bay from one catastrophe to another. Once again, however, screenwriters get short shrift, and anyone focusing on the director’s chair will be missing out on the work of Allan Loeb, a writer who has, in the course of one year, delivered a trifecta of utterly artificial fake-deep dramas that are must-sees for connoisseurs of the cinema’s best-worst. December gave us Loeb’s “Collateral Beauty,” in which Will Smith stacked dominoes, argued with Time and Death, and tried to find deep meaning in.

Five films into his feature directing career, it’s growing increasingly clear that Marc Webb loves telling stories about very special boys and girls. If “(500) Days of Summer” and the two “Amazing” Spider-Man movies didn’t make that obvious enough, Webb’s most recent movie prior to this month was “Gifted,” a schmaltzy (but reasonably satisfying) drama about a brilliant child who’s capable of doing college-level math. Still, as the only thing he’s ever made that doesn’t revolve around a super privileged (or super-powered) white guy who expects the world to fall at his feet, it was something of an anomaly in his body of work.

Unfortunately, “The Only Living Boy in New York” gets Webb back on track in such a big way that it borders on self-parody. Song reference or not, the title alone should be a major red flag, but there’s no way...

Jun 20, 2017

Kate Beckinsale and Pierce Brosnan lead The Only Living Boy In New York, from The Amazing Spider-Man’s Marc Webb…

Director Marc Webb has now completed two features in fairly short order following wrapping up his blockbuster work with The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Gifted, starring Chris Evans, arrived in UK cinemas last Friday. And turning up in the Us in August is The Only Living Boy In New York.

The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Kiersey Clemons, Cynthia Nixon, Jeff Bridges and Callum Turner, and it comes from a script by Allan Loeb. The movie has been funded by Roadside Attractions and Amazon Studios, and already seems to locked down with a 90 minute running time. The first trailer for it has landed overnight too, and here’s a flavour as to what to expect…

We don't know yet when the film will land in the UK. We'll, of course,...

When you aren’t carrying the weight of a superhero tentpole franchise on your shoulders, it turns out you can get a whole lot more done. Following the Chris Evans-led Gifted in April, Marc Webb‘s second film of 2017 will be arriving just a few months after in August with The Only Living Boy in New York. Ahead of the release Amazon Studios have now unveiled the first trailer.

Scripted by Allan Loeb (who is on some sort of unfortunate streak with The Space Between Us, Collateral Beauty, So Undercover, Here Comes the Boom, Rock of Ages, and, well, the list goes on…), hopefully this one is an uptick for the writer, even if the trailer sells a fairly chintzy feel-good dramedy — one that seems to be skipping a festival debut. Starring Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Kiersey Clemons, Cynthia Nixon, Callum Turner, and Jeff Bridges, check out the trailer below.

Coming to theaters August 11 is The Only Living Boy In New York, starring Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Kiersey Clemons, Cynthia Nixon, Callum Turner and Jeff Bridges.

Adrift in New York City, a recent college graduate seeks the guidance of an eccentric neighbor as his life is upended by his father’s mistress.

Check out the brand new trailer now from Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions.

Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and his artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents’ Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey.

Thomas’ world begins to shift when he discovers that his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman...

Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions have released The Only Living Boy in New York trailer. Directed by Marc Webb from a script by Allan Loeb (Collateral Beauty), the movie follows a recent college graduate (Callum Turner) who discovers that his father (Pierce Brosnan) is cheating on his mother (Cynthia Nixon) only to become smitten with his father’s mistress (Kate Beckinsale). He also gets life lessons from his new neighbor (Jeff Bridges). The Only Living Boy in New York has been in development for a while with Logan Lerman and Miles Teller circling the lead role that ultimately went to …...

While “The Amazing Spider-Man” director Marc Webb is watching the franchise get rebooted, he’s not sweating it one bit. The filmmaker has returned to his indie roots in a big way, having already released “Gifted” this spring. While you weren’t looking, the Chris Evans starring dramedy has racked up an impressive $28 million worldwide, and now the filmmaker has another movie swinging into cinemas this summer, with “The Only Living Boy In New York.”

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Starring Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, Kiersey Clemons, Cynthia Nixon, Callum Turner and Jeff Bridges the long-in-the-works movie (which at one time was going to star Logan Lerman, and be directed by Seth Gordon), is worryingly penned by Allan Loeb (“21,” “The Switch,” “The Dilemma,” “Just Go With It”) and follows a recent college graduate who seeks the guidance...

Exclusive: Wme has signed screenwriter/producer Allan Loeb. Loeb’s scripting credits include Collateral Beauty, which he also produced, The Space Between Us, Rock of Ages, Just Go with It, 21, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His next film is the Marc Webb-directed The Only Living Boy in New York, which Roadside Attractions releases August 11, with Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Bridges starring. Loeb, who had been repped by CAA, continues to be managed…...

Asa Butterfield and Britt Robertson star in new sci-fi romance, The Space Between Us. Here's our review...

Asa Butterfield and Britt Robertson play star-crossed lovers in The Space Between Us, a sci-fi romance which, shockingly, is not an adaptation of a novel by Nicholas Sparks or Stephenie Meyer. It's still full of the sort of contrivances that usually get explained away by some well-read fan as being faithful to the source material, but it comes from an original screenplay. However, when you realise that the screenplay was written by Allan Loeb, author of last year's feel-bad turkey Collateral Beauty, you might start to understand why it's utter nonsense.

In the not-too-distant future, 16-year-old Gardner Elliot (Butterfield) is the first human born on Mars. Raised by scientists and kept secret from the people of Earth by aerospace CEO Nathaniel Shepard (Gary Oldman), Gardner rails against his sheltered life and longs to...

Space – the final Ya-romance frontier. Having already used vampirism, lycanthropy, terminal diseases, time travel, dystopic futures and a televised to-the-death competition as obstacles to young love, the genre would seem to have nowhere left to go – at which point the makers of this sci-fi tearjerker looked to the cosmos and thought, "A-ha!" The fault is not in our stars, people. The fault is our stars.

Gardner (Asa Butterfield) is a typical 16-year-old brainiac, the kind who spends his days tinkering in robotics, endlessly rewatching Wings of Desire and Dm-ing with his female misfit counterpart.

The Space Between Us Stx Entertainment Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Peter Chelsom Written by: Allan Loeb, story by Stewart Schill Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Janet Montgomery, Gary Oldman, B.D. Wong Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 1/25/17 Opens: February 3, 2017 “Men are from Mars, women are from Venus,” […]

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Chicago – You know you’re in trouble when the opening scene of a film inspires forehead slapping levels of incredulity. And that’s just the beginning of what I felt while watching “The Space Between Us,” another entry in the long line of would-be weepies about young lovers torn apart, usually by class or disease.

The film desperately wants to be a millennial love story for a generation, and has plenty of faults but precious few stars in its tale of literal star-crossed lovers.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

This time instead of my new boyfriend is a cancer patient, or my new boyfriend is from the wrong side of the tracks, “The Space Between Us” central conceit is that the new boyfriend Gardner (Asa Butterfield) is a “Martian.” The son of an astronaut who got pregnant before her mission to Mars, and then died in childbirth on the red planet, Gardner is raised...

Essentially reimagining “Starman” as a tepid Ya weepie, “The Space Between Us” adds the one thing that’s been missing from melodramatic teen dramas like “The Fault in Our Stars” and “If I Stay”: Mars. Of course! The Red Planet. What took them so long? It’s such a perfectly natural setting for a genre that has wasted millions upon millions of dollars searching for signs of life. Alas, there are none to be found in this otherwise guileless and good-natured sci-fi love story.

Inexplicably not based on a book — but rather on an original idea by “Collateral Beauty” screenwriter Allan Loeb — “The Space Between Us” begins in the near future, as visionary scientist Nathaniel Shepherd (Gary Oldman, so characteristically hard to recognize that he’s easy to recognize) bids farewell to the first colonists of Mars, a team of astronauts who will establish and live in a dusty little outpost called “East Texas.

MaryAnn’s quick take… Appalling and sadistic. How can anyone who is not a sociopath look at this horrible attempt at feel-good fantasy and say, “This is fine, this is healthy”? I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

My god, it’s like we’re living not only in the darkest timeline but in the mirror universe, the one where there is no pity or mercy and the central driving human emotion is self-serving cruelty. This holiday season, Hollywood has given us the creepy, rapey Passengers to serve as a grand romance, and it has given us the sadistic Collateral Beauty to serve as a feel-good fantasy. What has become of us? It cannot bode any good thing about the current state of humanity that the manufacturer and reflector of our sweeping cultural hopes and dreams...

Will Smith ends the year with a real stinker. Here's our look at Collateral Beauty...

“What is the why?”, asks Will Smith's high-flying advertising executive Howard at the start of Collateral Beauty, a kind of modernised spin on the supernatural redemption story of A Christmas Carol. The dialogue is not great, but you do find yourself asking 'why?' a lot during the film that follows. Sadly, it's not something that anyone involved in making the film seems able to answer.

The film opens with this character establishing moment before skipping forward three years in time to find Howard considerably more withdrawn from the world. His six-year-old daughter has tragically passed away and his company is suffering as a result of his days spent building elaborate domino set-ups in his office instead of engaging with clients.

His partner Whit (Edward Norton) and colleagues Claire (Kate Winslet) and Simon (Michael Peña...

Collateral Beauty hit theaters on Friday, and the film has received nothing but terrible reviews. While this film has a star-studded cast, its fantastical and tragic themes fail to pull at your heartstrings. Director David Frankel and writer Allan Loeb create a story that focuses on the life of a man named Howard Inlet (Will […]

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Chicago – Charles Dickens once said, “Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Seeing the trailer for “Collateral Beauty,” it’s obvious this is the theme of the film, but it is also the theme of this review. My “blessing” to you is the foresight not to waste your time with this film.

Rating: 1.0/5.0

It becomes painfully apparent that this film’s goal is to make you cry. It doesn’t care when it happens or how frequently it happens, but its sole mission is to get you to shed some tears. How does it do it early on? By introducing one of the saddest things that can happen to a person, more specifically a parent. The slow, painful death of a child is a probably the worst experience anyone can imagine having to go through,...

Collateral Beauty is soggy garbage intended to make you cry, but it’s so clumsy in its manipulations that you almost feel sorry for it, the way you would if you realized the mugger trying to take your money was holding a fake knife and was actually two kids in a trench coat. You thought this would work? You would think. Bless your dumb heart.

It’s the story of Howard (Will Smith), the head of an advertising agency, who has been a depressed zombie since the death of his daughter two years ago. His business partners — who are also his best friends; it’s important for you to remember that — can’t get him to engage in the business anymore, and they’re losing clients. They want him to sell the company before it goes under, but he refuses to discuss it, or anything else. He just stands in his office all day,...

If you were to ask me in passing, perhaps at a holiday party we were both attending, to give you my review of Collateral Beauty, I would tell you: "Helen Mirren is great and the movie is..................................................fine."

All of the previews for Collateral Beauty have made it seem like a weepy, modern take on A Christmas Carol. And it is? Sort of? The actual movie starts with a scene of Will Smith's slick ad exec, Howard, waxing philosophical in the way only movie bosses do about love, time and death and how these three ideas connect all humans (and can be used to sell them stuff).

Jump forward a few years later and a bleary, red-eyed Howard has taken to writing letters to these abstractions -- Love, Time and Death -- after losing his 6-year-old daughter. With the company now crumbling, his colleagues and supposed close friends (Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and [link...

Collateral Beauty Warner Bros Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: C+ Director: David Frankel Written by: Allan Loeb Cast: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Keira Knightley, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren Screened at: AMC Lincoln Square, NYC, 12/13/16 Opens: December 16, 2016 Children bury their parents. That’s the normal way. Parents are not supposed to bury their children, especially if the youths are alive barely old enough to know what life’s all about. So when Howard Inlet (Will Smith) suffers the loss of his six-year-old daughter to cancer, he exudes enough grief to, what? to turn the audience into a bucket of sniffles and make collateral [ Read More ]

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Hollywood has no problem forcing emotional pornography upon drama-hungry audiences, but even compared to the most shallow tearjerkers, Collateral Beauty is f*#king savage. Like, rips-your-heart-out-and-eats-it-in-front-of-you savage. Writer Allan Loeb wants to make you cry, but only through the most superficial, disconnected emotional means possible. Think “Chicken Soup For No One’s Soul,” with a recipe that tosses every gut-wrenching soap opera subplot into a lukewarm, neglected stew. You might bawl, but you’ll also feel abused by scripted sledgehammers that only act as a sullen onslaught of morose sadness undeserving of your investment.

Plus, it’s just bad, sloppy filmmaking. Gross misappropriations of emotional discovery aside.

Will Smith stars as a man named Howard, who’s stuck grieving over the death of his 6-year old daughter. It’s been multiple years, but the divorced husk of a man shows no signs of escaping his funk. While business partner/best...

It's near impossible to make a movie with no redeeming features – but damned if Collateral Beauty doesn't hits the zero-stars jackpot. The unholy mess that director David Frankel and screenwriter Allan Loeb have unleashed for the holidays strands an all-star cast – including Will Smith, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Edward Norton and Keira Knightley – on a sinking ship that churns the waters from absurd to zombified with frequent stops at pretentious.

Our condolences to Smith, who has the most screen time and is therefore open to the most ridicule. He plays Howard,...

Even if it hadn't come along so soon after Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan's symphonic drama about a father emotionally crippled by loss, Collateral Beauty would look like silly high-concept Hollywood grief porn. That's not to say David Frankel's all-star weepie doesn't work on its own manipulative terms, spreading its trail of goopy sentiment and inspirational homilies with technical finesse and some decent acting against the picturesque backdrop of New York City during the holidays. Audiences unconcerned about their sugar levels might eat it up.

Allan Loeb's original screenplay was initially set up with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon attached to direct,...

When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death.

But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

From Oscar-winning director David Frankel, the thought-provoking drama Collateral Beauty features an all-star cast, including Will Smith (“Suicide Squad,” “Concussion”), Edward Norton (“Birdman or [The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance]”), Keira Knightley (“The Imitation Game”), Michael Peña (“The Martian”), Naomie Harris (“Spectre”), Jacob Latimore (“The Maze Runner”), with Oscar winners Kate Winslet (“The Reader,” “Steve Jobs”) and Helen Mirren (“The Queen,” “Trumbo”).

Frankel (“Marley & Me,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” “Dear Diary”) directs from a screenplay written by Allan Loeb (“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,...

When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life.&#160While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death.&#160&#160But it's not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses&#160that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.&#160

Today, we have the second full-length trailer from Collateral Beauty, which gives us a better understanding of this unique holiday movie. And it appears to be a true awards season contender. Is Will Smith on the path to Oscar glory? He very well could be!

The Oscar has thus far eluded Will Smith, considered one of the true superstars of the past few decades. He was first nominated in 2002 for his portray of boxer...