Tag: Bottoms
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‘Bottoms’ Domestic Box Office Scores a Touchdown as It Arrives on Digital
Bottoms is an indie comedy from director Emma Seligman that reunites her with her Shiva Baby star Rachel Sennott. Also starring Ayo Edebiri — who starred with Sennott in the comedy series Ayo and Rachel Are Single — the movie details a high school experience of two queer girls who are often mocked by their…
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Before ‘Bottoms,’ Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott Starred in a Sketch Series
When the trailer for the highly anticipated teen comedy Bottoms dropped, everyone couldn’t wait to see rising stars Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott together for Emma Seligman’s second feature film. Seligman previously directed Sennott in Shiva Baby and the two co-wrote Bottoms together. Though you may recognize them separately, Edebiri and Sennott have collaborated before,…
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‘Bottoms’ Domestic Box Office Nears a Promising Milestone
Bottoms is continuing to make its mark at the box office. The satirical teen comedy, directed by Shiva Baby director Emma Seligman, is poised to become a favorite among younger moviegoers as it nears the $10 million mark at the domestic box office this weekend. Bottoms grossed an additional $1.2 million on its fourth box…
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Val Kilmer Starred in the Best College Movie There Is
If there are two phases of life that filmmakers are fascinated with more than any other, it’s high school and college. It seems like that odd, ever-shifting space of time, when you learn to drive, drink, and do your own taxes all by yourself, is a boon for most filmmakers. Just look at Emma Seligman…
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Marshawn Lynch in ‘Bottoms’ Is Way More Than Stunt Casting
Shiva Baby writer-director Emma Seligman’s follow-up feature Bottoms is a groundbreaking hit for many reasons. The raunchy teen comedy follows Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri’s Pj and Josie, two lesbian high schoolers at the “bottom” of the social hierarchy who desperately want to have sex, particularly with cheerleaders Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and Brittany (Kaia…
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With ‘Bottoms’ and ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Brownstone Productions Is Reviving the R-Rated Comedy
Everyone remembers their first R-rated movie. Maybe you snuck into a theater trying to pass as 17, or maybe your parents didn’t care for censorship. Either way — whether it’s a movie with gore, expletives or nudity — that first experience leaves an impression.Max Handelman, who co-founded Brownstone Productions with his wife, Elizabeth Banks, recalls…
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’Talk To Me’ becomes A24’s top grossing horror release at North American box office
Emma Seligman’s Bottoms breaks into top 10 in second weekend.Talk To Me from Australia’s Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou has become A24’s highest grossing horror release at the North American box office, earning $44.6m to date.‘Talk To Me’: Sundance ReviewThe film about a group of youngsters who attempt to contact the spirit world has been…
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’Talk To Me’ becomes A24’s highest grossing horror release
Emma Seligman’s Bottoms breaks into top 10 in second weekend.Talk To Me from Australia’s Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou has become A24’s highest grossing horror release at the North American box office, earning $44.6m to date.‘Talk To Me’: Sundance ReviewThe film about a group of youngsters who attempt to contact the spirit world has been…
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The Best Sex Comedies of All Time, from ‘The Seven Year-Itch’ to ‘Magic Mike Xxl’ to ‘Bottoms’
It’s been a long, sexless decade or two for American cinema, but this summer, we’re finally getting films about laughs and lust again.The 2023 Summer film season has been bookended by two comedies about women desperate for sex, albeit for very different reasons. “No Hard Feelings,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a woman who reluctantly accepts…
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Bottoms Just Beat A Pandemic Era Box Office Record Set By Everything Everywhere All At Once
In what might be one of the most encouraging box office stories of recent memory, MGM’s raunchy, R-rated comedy “Bottoms” had one heck of a debut at the box office this past weekend. The film, directed by Emma Seligman, debuted in limited release to get in on the National Cinema Day goodness, and that strategy…