Tag: The Lost City
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Can Will Ferrell’s Strays Give R-Rated Comedy A Win At The Box Office?
One of the genres that has struggled most in the post-pandemic landscape theatrically is comedy. Divorced of movies connected to major franchises, straight-up comedy has had a tough go outside of streaming in recent years, with only romcoms like “The Lost City” and “Ticket to Paradise” truly breaking out as unqualified success stories. Be that…
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‘Masters of the Universe’ Movie Dead at Netflix After at Least $30 Million in Development; Mattel Shopping for New Buyer (Exclusive)
“Masters of the Universe,” a live-action movie based on He-Man and a slew of other popular Mattel toys, is officially dead at Netflix, according to multiple Variety sources.Insiders said that close to $30 million has already been spent on development costs and the cash that’s been shelled out to hold on to talent – like…
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At Midnight Review: A Charming But Familiar Rom-Com Runs Out Of Time
During the mythical Golden Age of Hollywood, the romantic-comedy genre could be relied upon as a consistently entertaining, star-studded, and profitable performer at the box office, year in and year out. We’ve fallen quite a long way in the years since despite some recent breakthrough hits like “Crazy Rich Asians” or last year’s double-whammy of…
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Channing Tatum’s Movie Stardom Is Unshakeable
In 2022, Channing Tatum returned to appearing in live-action movies. Besides a brief Free Guy cameo, Tatum hadn’t appeared in a live-action movie since 2017. The man who hit several box office home runs in 2012 had been away for a while to be a dad but was now back at the forefront of the…
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Daniel Radcliffe: I Based My Career Off Harrison Ford’s Post-‘Indiana Jones’
Daniel Radcliffe didn’t want to just be a one-trick pony.After making a statement infamously shedding his “Harry Potter” persona by baring all in a West End production of “Equus,” Radcliffe solidified his fame post-“Potter” glory. Now, the “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” star is crediting Harrison Ford as his career inspiration.“I had this awareness that…
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10 Best Action-Comedy Movies like “The Lost City”
“The Lost City” is the newest action comedy that took the world by storm, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum. The film follows a popular author who writes adventure-romance novels featuring a cover man named Alan. When she is kidnapped by a mastermind looking for a lost treasure, she and Alan must find a way…
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Billy Eichner’s Gay Rom-Com ‘Bros’ Takes on Creepy Thriller ‘Smile’ at Box Office
After years of declarations about the death of the romantic comedy, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s recent commercial hit “The Lost City” proved there’s still a place on the big screen for meet-cute stories.Now, comedian and actor Billy Eichner is taking a stab at the feel-good genre with “Bros,” an R-rated romantic comedy that opens…
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The Brad Pitt-Sandra Bullock QVC Comedy That Tragically Never Got Made
Just when you think you know everything about one of the most famous celebrities in the world, they always find a way to surprise us. The Academy Award-winning actor/producer has spent his entire life finding different hobbies and side projects to keep himself occupied when he’s not being a movie star, including winemaking, sculpting, and…
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‘Top Gun: Maverick’ drives Paramount Global film revenue growth
However profits, operating income drop.Paramount Global president and CEO Bob Bakish talked up box office success in the company’s Q2 earnings call on Thursday (August 4), led by the 1.3bn global performance of Top Gun: Maverick.Theatrical revenue grew by 630m year-on-year to 764m and the company highlighted Paramount’s all-time biggest hit as well as other…
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‘Nope’ Debuts To 44 Million, The Best For An Original Film Since Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ In 2019
Writer/Director Jordan Peele is back with Nope, the UFO-centered horror film starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, and Peele once again proves that he is one of Hollywood’s few directors whose name can consistently lure audiences into cinemas. The 44 million launch fell quite a bit short of Peele’s previous film Us, which opened…