Tag: Life of the Party
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Gillian Jacobs on ‘Life of the Party,’ Kidnapping Puppets, and ‘Community’
From co-writer/director/producer Ben Falcone, the comedy Life of the Party follows Deanna (co-writer/producer star Melissa McCarthy), a newly single mother who, upon having her life turned upside down, decides to re-enroll in college and finally earn her degree. Having dropped out to raise her daughter (Molly Gordon), she now finds herself fully immersed in the…
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Director Ben Falcone on ‘Life of the Party’, Melissa McCarthy, and Why Comedy Is Democracy
From co-writer/director/producer Ben Falcone, the comedy Life of the Party follows Deanna (co-writer/producer star Melissa McCarthy), a newly single mother who, upon having her life turned upside down, decides to re-enroll in college and finally earn her degree. Having dropped out to raise her daughter, she now finds herself fully immersed in the college experience…
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Marvel claims the top spot in spending with “Avengers: Infinity War.”Ads placed for the superhero film had an estimated media value of $4.94 million through Sunday for 923 national ad airings on 39 networks. (Spend figures…
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Has Melissa McCarthy’s generation-gap comedy finally got it right?
In Life of the Party, the comic actor plays a back-to-school grownup looking for a good time. In 2018, however, this familiar film format might be getting oldYouth is wasted on the young, but then youth is wasted a lot of the time, especially when it comes to college movies. We oldies just don’t like…
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Melissa McCarthy’s ‘Superintelligence’ Set for 2019 Holiday Release
Warner Bros. will release Melissa McCarthy’s action-comedy “Superintelligence” on Christmas Day 2019.McCarthy will star in the New Line film, while spouse Ben Falcone will direct. The movie was set up last year with McCarthy and Falcone as producers through their On the Day production company.The couple has already teamed up on a trio of comedies…
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New ‘Life of the Party’ Trailer: Melissa McCarthy Reinvents Herself At College
We’ve all been there: smashing picture frames, throwing out the other person’s things, and calling the other person a “son of a bitch” because they broke our hearts. Those are the easy parts of dealing with a break-up, the hard parts are discovering who you are without that person and figuring out what’s next. In…
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Melissa McCarthy, Ben Falcone Tackling Action Comedy ‘Super-Intelligence’ (Exclusive)
Melissa McCarthy will star in Super-Intelligence, New Line’s action comedy that has Ben Falcone coming on board to direct.The project was set up last year with McCarthy and Falcone as producers via their On the Day banner. Super-Intelligence will mark the married team’s fourth collaboration in an actor-director capacity, following the comedies Tammy (2014), The…
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‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Trailer Finds Melissa McCarthy Running a Forgery Scam
Though 2017 saw the release of exactly no movies starring Melissa McCarthy, it’s not like she was taking it easy. Indeed, 2018 will likely see the release of three movies with McCarthy at front-and-center, including The Happytime Murders, her long-awaited, adult-themed collaboration with director Brian Henson. She’ll next be seen in Life of the Party,…