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FRIDAY 11:30 PM UPDATE: Remember that all these pre-Christmas movie openings will be helped tremendously by the holiday multiple gift from Santa. Some of the newcomers opened on Wednesday, with others Friday. Domestic box office looks like this tonight which definitely isn’t a full reflection of what will be pre-Christmas weekend moviegoing. So this not-great-start is looking like only $100M total moviegoing, which is -19% from last year. See this as a quick glimpse until my refined numbers and full analysis Saturday and Sunday:
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (MGM/WB) Week 2 [Runs 4,100] PG13
Friday $10.5M (-73%), Weekend $31.5M, Cume $145.2M
The problem with blockbusters is they have giant openings and then giant falls. But even with a -73% drop from a week ago, Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth epic is still the big #1 domestic and international. Going into the weekend, its huge domestic haul was already $113.1M and its international take was just shy of $189M. That makes for a worldwide cume of about $303M. Yikes! The pic now opens in Russia and the Ukraine as it continues to blanket the globe with new and old JR Tolkien faithful.
2. Jack Reacher (Skydance/Paramount) NEW [Runs 3,352] PG13
Friday $5.7M, Weekend $17.5M
Tom Cruise is currently not sitting quite as pretty as he was midday based on matinee trends. Yes, he’s still #2 today and should stay there all weekend now that audiences bestowed an ‘A-’ CinemaScore. That should help word of mouth, along with the expected holiday multiple. Still pic will debut less than the $20M which major stars like Cruise should gross to open movies. Frankly, Hollywood didn’t think this ammo actioner would make even this kind of money after tracking trouble. (There’s been snark from the film project’s get-go that Tom Thumb was miscast as Reacher, who’s a physically big guy in the novel.) But it only cost $60M, or so co-financiers Skydance and Paramount keep claiming. Remains to be seen if it’ll struggle to get to $100M total box office. If so then Oracle scion David Ellison may have to rethink steering movies towards Cruise even after Mission: Impossible 4 paid off.
3. This Is 40 (Universal) NEW [Runs 2,912] R
Friday $4.0M, Weekend $12.0M
Adult pictures don’t open big this time of year but then they go on to enjoy huge multiples. The studio wasn’t expecting the so-so reviews fgr This Is 40 but is expecting Judd Apatow fans to turn out over the weekend. Remains to be seen if tonight’s ‘B-’ CinemaScore from audiences hurts word of mouth. Universal knew tonight could swing anywhere between $3M to $4.5M depending on how the R-rated dramedy fared on Friday Date Night. I don’t agree with rival studios calling this openign “soft” just because This Is 40 had identical tracking to Jack Reacher. (“I’m surprised it’s so far behind. And for a movie that Universal sent out Academy screeners in November, it garnered only 49% positive reviews,” one rival studio exec snarked to me tonight.) It’s a way different genre though equally cheap. But let’s see if it has a better holiday multiple.
4. Rise Of The Guardians (DW Animation/Par) Week 5 [Runs 3,031] PG
Friday $1.5M, Weekend $7.2M, Cume $79.8M
This movie keeps taking advantage of Hollywood shortsightedness in not skedding more December family pictures this season. Still, compared to other tentpole toons, this is still a disappointment.
5. Monsters Inc 3D (Pixar/Disney) Week 1 [Runs 2,618] G
Friday $1.4M, Weekend $5.0M, Cume $6.5M
Opened Wednesday and Disney now pumping up the publicity volume in preparation for the Christmas wannasee. Re-teched 2001 toon whose lifetime domestic gross was $257M should make a fat multiple while it also drums up interest for 2013′s prequel.
6. The Guilt Trip (Skydance/Paramount) Week 1 [Runs 2,431] PG13
Friday $1.4M, Weekend $4.7M, Cume $6.7M
Also opened Wednesday and Hollywood did a double-take tonight. ”It fell off the map,” one rival studio exec exclaimed to me. Co-financier David Ellison helped foot the minor $40M bill to pair up Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand in a double-lame genre of road trip and mother movie. Stop, before you crap out another.
7. Lincoln (DreamWorks/Fox/Disney) Week 7 [Runs 2,293] PG13
Friday $1.4M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $116.7M
8. Skyfall (MGM/Sony) Week 7 [Runs 2,365] PG13
Friday $1.2M, Weekend $4.0M, Cume $279.1M
9. Life Of Pi (Fox) Week 5 [Runs 1,750] PG
Friday $1.1M, Weekend $4.2M, Cume $76.5M
10. Breaking Dawn Pt 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) Week 6 [Runs 2,000] PG13
Friday $817K, Weekend $2.8M, Cume $281.9M
11. Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away (Paramount) NEW [Runs 840] PG
Friday $800K, Weekend $2.7M
Troupe’s pic opened for paid previews today and 2 showtimes on 800 screens for the weekend. Cheapie only cost $18M.
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Saw Jack Reacher with some friends at a 3:00 showing in Atlanta. There were quite a few people for a work day. I really enjoyed the movie it’s a great action pack popcorn movie !
….audience seemed to really like it at LA matinee. didn’t think it was going to be that funny. applause at the end.
I thought that the negative cost on Reacher is closer to $90 which is why Ellison was brought in as a partner.
Pretty pleased to see this is 40 on the road to a quick and painful death. Judd Apatow gives off an air of increasing smugness which is reflected and his increasing belief that we actually want to see his wife and untalented daughters in longer and longer movies. Plus they started the marketing on this one way too early, creating a sense of massive fatigue before it even came out.
Leslie Mann is actually a very funny actress, and his kids are great. Especially the younger one. Don’t know why you don’t like Judd, but he has made some great films, and produced some of the best comedies of the last 10 years. I went and saw the movie, and it was very solid. Had some real good laughs, and some real honesty to it. Some people are haters.
Judd is fine, but I agree with the OP’s comments overall. Apatow projects now seem to drip with entitled hipster smugness. I’m starting to think his inexplicably loyal fanbase is even fed up with it, but they’ll never admit i.
What loyal fanbase? The guy has made 4 feature films and the first two were hits and the last two are meh. This is doing half the business of Funny People which has the rewatchability of a Katie Couric colonoscopy.
The trailer looked like it was pushing a new Showtime series. Nothing screamed “Theatrical!”
“Leslie Mann is actually a very funny actress, and his kids are great.”
“Don’t know why you don’t like Judd, but he has made some great films.”
Those two sentences alone are funnier than Judd Apatow’s entire career.
lolol…love this post
No question that Judd Apatow blew it on this one. It’s a very poor film.
But you have to respect his decision to champion and produce Lena Dunham.
I can’t stand low class bathroom humor. Potty humor is a sign of lack of talent. Why anyone would go see a movie with Rudd who will do anything for a part is beyond me. You want to see someone sitting on a toilet? Oh how clever and lacking in inhibitions. It’s an insult to audiences everywhere.
At this point it feels like Judd Apatow is just making 50M home videos with his Paul Rudd standing in for himself, and expecting millions of Americans to pay $14 to watch. It’s actually a little creepy.
That’s ridiculous. “Home movies,” as if crafting a feature film is as easy as making snide internet comments. By your standards, novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters should never produce any works based on their own lives. Might as well toss out autobiographies, memoirs, adn stand-up comedy while we’re at it.
But this wasn’t crafting a feature film, it was a bad movie and the reviews state as much. HW works in the business and his opinions are usually spot on. I think it’s beyond lame that he has a Deadline “handle,” but he’s often right.
Apatow can’t expect to put out bad product with his family starring in it, and have even those of us with money give him 14 bucks of our movie. If it’s good, awesome, but it’s not good. And I liked the first half of FUNNY PEOPLE a ton when most didn’t.
And sorry, but Nikki is being kind. If you get 3,000 theaters and you don’t deliver, you’re not going to get Nancy Meyer’s type budgets or chances even.
Agreed. This is 40 is a smoking turd of a movie starring the Marsha Mason of 2012 — aka Leslie Mann, an actress of limited talent who only gets cast in major movies when he husband is the writer/director (like Neil Simon). Other more talented, funnier actresses don’t get the plum parts because they’re saved for Mrs. Apatow. Fine. His 15 minutes are about up. We’re ready for the new voice of comedy. And please, can someone give Paul Rudd his own sitcom on ABC and get his out of movie theaters? He’s the male Jennifer Aniston, one bomb after another. IMO.
Jesus Christ are you a foul, foul little fucking human being. How bitter and
angry are you at the failure that has overwhelmed and drowned you. This kind
of animus and resentment should be reserved for the adult who fingered you at a young age and
turned you into an embittered asshole…not Judd Apatow.
Judd, your posts are all over this thread, as they were with any of the posts about your movie. If you keep it up, you’re going to get made fun of on Gawker, and then writers at The New York Times are going to go after your family in the comments section. It will get ugly. Stop. You’ve made two very personal films of late, and they’ve been really, really bad. Do you think people want to pay 28 dollars to see Paul Rudd spread his legs? Look at the poster? It’s your wife in the mirror, and Paul Rudd on the toilet. No one cares about your wife, dude. You do. Your kids do. I’m sure she’s awesome. But the country does not care, and you’re marking her a target. Just stop.
I think there’s just a disconnect between “an Apatow” comedy and what 40-somethings want to see. Middle-aged movie-goers associate his work with stoner frat-boy comedies, and they’d rather go see something more substantial. Younger audiences who like stoner frat-boy comedies don’t want to watch a movie about old married people.
THIS IS 40 if you’re white, a hipster and have money. Can Judd stop sucking his own $%#* and make a movie that isn’t so self indulgent (ex: wife and kids in movie, filmed down the street from where he lives). 40 year old virgin was great, Knocked Up was pretty good, funny people sucked. He should stick to producing.
I think this is right; Apatow’s movies are generally silly, “stoner frat-boy” movies that don’t suggest to the audience that there is a lot going on under the surface, even if there actually is. Just like Adam Sandler when he tries to play “serious” roles the audience isn’t particularly interested since his movies are generally so dumb and sophomoric.
I think Bill Murray and Jim Carrey are the only actors recently I can think of who have managed to somewhat succeed in “serious” roles; perhaps Steve Martin as well although in his case it would actually be more surprising these days for him to be funny in a movie!
Haven’t seen it, but my wife didn’t like it, so maybe not his best film. However, in the right role, like in 40 Year Old Virgin,” Leslie Mann has been hilarious. It’s hard to make one excellent film: nobody does it every time.
Tom Cruise leading = quality movie . I go tmw
And miss the clambake?
12-15M for Rise of the Guardians? 68% to 110% increase this weekend? Who the heck made up those numbers?
This is 40 has a $50 million budget, that includes promotion right?
My wife and I went and saw the 12:40 showing of This Is 40. About 15-20 people in the theater. It was one of the smaller screens in the 14 theater multi-plex we went to. Movie received a lot of laughs. My wife and I really enjoyed it. It almost felt like a documentary. Had a very real feeling to it. One of the better movies of the year. I don’t understand why some of the bigger comedies of the last few years are not doing that well at the box office. Funny People, This Is 40, The Watch, 5 Year Engagement. All did worse then expected. I guess you need a talking stuffed animal for the stoners for it to make money.
I think I understand… Funny People, about a dying man… and This is 40 where everyone argues and seems miserable throughout the movie, except Megan Fox character ((actually the only enjoyable scenes in the movie where Megan’s, yes I was surprised)) are not FUN. So I don’t think you need a talking stuffed animal, but you need to keep it fun and playful. The young daughter said it perfectly in the movie when she said, I don’t like everyone fighting all the time… especially if it’s not funny fighting.
Looks like a nice hit for Mr. Cruise, Poor Judd stop trying to make your wife and kids stars.
Poor Judd? He has been pretty successful and his wife and daughters are very talented and quite funny. This Is 40 was great. One of the better movies of the year. Some people will be uncomfortable watching this movie, because of the honesty to it.
“because of the honesty to it”
That comment is funnier than anything in this self-absorbed, wanna-be comedy that whines about a family’s “financial trouble” while everyone is running around in fat Lexus SUV’s dropping the kids off behind the catering tent at their 10 million dollar Brentwood mansion. When life gets too stressful the parents head up to a $1000 a night suite in Santa Barbara to “re-connect” and (predictably) fall into the obligatory “pot brownie scene” that we’ve been subjected to in a hundred other movies.
What a freakin’ snooze fest. And not just boring and annoying. It was actual torture. The Paul Rudd character (owner of an boutique indie music label – zzzzz…) subjects his family (and the audience) to semi-obscure and very important musical references. Apatow actually has the audacity to reference The Pixies as if Tromp Le Mond isn’t indie musics most obvious album to hold up and scream “I’m alternative. See! I like the Pixies”.
Judd Apatow has forgotten what life is like in the real world and the more his insular cacoon closes in around him, the less funny his movies will be to anyone outside of his sycophantic love circle.
Other than your horrible spelling, i could not agree more.
ok, how many posts are judd’s reps going to make here? next time, identify yourself as his agent, manager, etc. stop hiding behind fake names.
Actually 18 million is slightly disappointment, considering that means it will make less than Valkyrie.
This proves that people won’t pay tickets for a Tom Cruise movie unless it’s a mission impossible movie.
Your mission to run down Cruise is obvious, but you need to do your homework. Valkyrie opened on Xmas Day. This weekend is traditionally much weaker. You need to begin well enough to get the multiple over the holidays, as Nikki correctly alludes to.
Not really. $18-$20M for a second-tier actioner in mid-December with that budget is actually decent. By the end of it’s global run, it will have done pretty well, and that’s before video/digital distribution.
A more correct statement is, “films that rely *solely* on a major name won’t break out without some sort of high-concept draw as well.” If you leave everything about this film exactly the same, but swap in Depp, Clooney, Dicaprio, Damon or Pitt, and the results wouldn’t jump drastically. They’ve all had recent middling films due mostly to concepts that didn’t grab moviegoers (“The Tourist,” “The American,” “Body of Lies,” “Green Zone,” and “Killing Them Softly,” respectively).
The real measurement for Cruise will be his next high-concept film, “Oblivion,” though sci-fi films nowadays are somewhat risky.
The final number for Reacher is around $15mil showing that it had a drop off during the weekend. After the big and expensive Rock of Ages flop it’s clear Tom Cruise is on the decline.
Imagine that! 50 years old and a 30 year incredible career – and he’s on the decline. You are really calling the shots out there….
I am no Cruise fan but given recent events I am not surprised that people are not in the mood to see this movie. Who wants to see anything with guns/violence this weekend? Not many, imho.
I cannot bring myself to see Jack Reacher. I have read several Reacher novels and the title character is supposed to be 6’4″/220# – it is central to his character. The fact that he is being portrayed by the vertically challenged Tom Cruise instead of somebody at least more suitably proportioned like Channing Tatum or almost any other actor on earth leaves me to believe the filmmakers could not possibly care about this wonderful character. If Cruise had any decency he would have produced this vehicle to give another worthy actor a shot at a franchise. Instead it is a vanity project for a capable Movie Star who should never have been cast in the role. I’m sure it’s a fine film. But I’ll save my money for the next terrific book.
I am surprised anyone would dismiss Cruise as Jack Reacher, without even seeing it, purely because of his height. Walking tall can be as much about attitude as physicality, and Cruise goes further in defining Jack Reacher for the movie screen than any other actor could out there, tall or short.
Hi Tom.
I didn’t write that.
^Winning
I haven’t read the Lee Child “JR” books. My brother reads them, loves them. He thought the casting was absurd. I don’t think Cruise fits the character, but I didn’t get too worked up about it. Lee Child supported it, but IDK if he had script approval/cast approval. Assuming he didn’t, what’s he going to say? I’m sure he made a mint on the screen rights, so he’s not going to trash the casting of his golden goose. If the movie is successful, they can do another one and another one and… I wish “Shooter” had been more successful. Would’ve liked to have seen more of those.
Anyway, while I wasn’t that upset that Cruise was cast, watching trailers…he doesn’t fit the part. He was great in “Collateral.” He can be THAT kind of ass kicker (martial arts, weaponry). I just don’t see him being a bad ass brawler like Jack Reacher is supposed to be. I’ll still see the movie, but I’m not psyched about it or anything.
Have you actually read what the author said about WHY they chose Cruise? The author himself is very, VERY happy with Cruise and what he’s done with the part.
While I do have a problem with the specific idea of Tom Cruise as a tough guy, are people completely oblivious to UFC? The idea that “only tall, heavy guys are tough” is getting debunked on a weekly basis. Some of the toughest men alive are 5’4″ and 125 pounds.
Yeah those tough 125 lb guys you’re watching on UFC are fighting other guys who weigh 125 lbs….
You’re right. They wouldn’t stand a chance against the average 250-pound construction worker.
The issue with the casting of Cruise is not just his height. In the books Jack Reacher is a drifter – he owns one set of clothes, travels by bus, stays in crappy hotels, gets $7 haircuts. He is basically one step up from a bum. Cruise’s polished, buffed, perfectly-coiffed Hollywood persona is the complete antithesis of the character. AND he’s a foot shorter to boot. It’s not that TC is incapable of playing the part (I think he is a fine actor). It’s just that nothing in the trailer looked like what is described in the books.
it’s not the height
it’s everything else
something very secretive and feminine about his energy (and i’m not talking sexually)
that’s why women love him
but men…eh
Chris Hemsworth should have been considered. At least he has the proper physicality.
Hemsworth would have been way too young for the role
This is what always bothers me about military or ex-military characters in movies. They are cast WAY younger than they should be, straining believability. Look at the entire cast of GI Joe. We’re supposed to believe all these 20-somethings are battle-hardened super soldiers, the best of the best in the world?
The force-feeding continues.
After the audience and I who saw the trailer for Jack Reacher stopped laughing, I realized a few things. One: HE IS NO STEVE MCQUEEN. Then, I realized I had seen someone trying hard to sell their “star” as someone so tough, it would make Dirty Harry die of laughter–HE IS NO CLINT EASTWOOD. Then, I recalled another cringe-worthy piece of “reporting” from a few weeks ago, that he was planning on remaking The Magnificent Seven, with himself in the lead role, and realized–HE IS NO YUL BRYNNER.
But whatever his camp wishes to force-feed us, there are still plenty of cinema-goers who are not going to spend a dime on this “comedy.” BTW, another spin piece on him being the “highest paid” last year–is that salary or earnings (makes a difference considering others were paid higher salaries)?
Also, this controversy DID occur before, with Ann Rice, who felt “Huck Finn” was playing her character; that controversy was gone, after Ms. Rice was to receive a considerable monetary deal for the adaptation with Cruise.
Rock of Ages bombed. MI4 earned most of its money in China, where most well-crafted US action films make a profit, regardless of its star.
Lessons learned: Question what you read now more than ever in this digital age, and don’t be afraid to laugh out loud in a movie theater.
“MI4 earned most of its money in China…”
Right, aside from the $209 million in the U.S., $69 million in Japan, etc….
Get your facts straight, hater.
Who cares how tall the actor is?
The character WOLVERINE is 5’3 in the comic book (or at least STARTED that way) and Hugh Jackman is 6’2. Didn’t seem to hurt the X-MEN franchise (and no one’s more loyal/demanding than comic book fans.)
If Cruise is too short for this role wouldn’t he also be too short for the MI Films?
I don’t get the argument.
You were doing so well until Channing Tatum…
Can’t quite figure out why The Guilt Trip is doing so poorly. Saw it an early screening and the audience loved it–applause at end. It’s a such a sweet film with a terrific performance by Streisand.
Nikki calls the Guilt Trip budget “minor” – but since when is $40 million minor? especially for a movie whose audience is older women? It doesn’t look like it has much production value. that thing shouldn’t have cost more than $30 million.
doesn’t matter
the title will keep this a money maker in the rentals
can’t wait for the rest of the trilogy
this is 50
this is 60
People are sick of the in your face unfunny pot smoking fatty Seth Rogan. It was too Jewsihy with both of them.
Really? Because last time I checked, being too “Jewsihy” wasn’t a problem for Meet The Fockers.
Good point about MTF. Actually I think they played down the Jewish aspect in the movie. The character’s last name is Brewster. Not exactly in the Jewish name book.
Sadly, those qualities are the extent of Rogen’s meager little sack of talent.
“too Jewsihy?”
Even with understanding that it’s probably just an unintended typo-
God bless the internet.
(Typed with a LOT of sarcasm.)
I agree with you 100%. How can a studio have such high hopes for a film and be completely wrong? When I left the screening I attended, I thought critics would love her performance.
Hmmmmm… another weekend of white comedy flops that cost 50mil plus. Studios take note, “Think Like A Man…” is still the highest grossing comedy of the year behind Ted. Time for more comedies featuring multi-ethnic casts
21 Jump Street made more than Think Like a Man, as did Magic Mike. Both were promoted as comedies.
21 Jump Street was promoted as a comedy action hybrid, and Magic Mike was sold consistently as a sexy ladies night movie. This Is 40 is a mid-life marriage dramedy. Think Like a Man was arguably the only well marketed, date-night romantic comedy in the market this year. The audience and box office potential for each type of movie was tied to its sub-genre; it’s hard to just lump them all as “comedy.”
Rise of the Guardians certainly did not double it’s gross over this weekend with 700 fewer theaters. If this happened, it would be aided by more theaters. If this remains posted this weekend with the news that it made 15 million this weekend, this would be a gross overestimate of 10 million over the actual total. I certainly support dreamworks animation but this film failed to find an audience and will cause some hardship at dreamworks.
Wow, pretty happy that Rise of the Guardians is getting a possible boost for the weekend.
50 mil is about ten times more than any movie headlined by B-listers like Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd should cost. Shoot the dumb thing in Canada with a skeletal budget, and yank it away from the director if he hasn’t wrapped in three weeks.
Richard Roeper astutely observed in his negative review of This Is 40 that it’s only slightly shorter than the other, well-received film in release that depicts the decade-plus-long hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Judd Apatow is hopelessly out of touch with what’s going to put asses in seats. It’s like he looked back on Funny People and deemed that the problem with it was that people didn’t get enough of its belabored third act.
We get it, Judd, your wife and kids are adorable.
“Judd Apatow is hopelessly out of touch with what’s going to put asses in seats.”
First, Apatow the writer-director shouldn’t necessarily be dwelling on ticket sales. Second, Apatow the producer is still money in the bank. Since KNOCKED UP came out, Apatow-produced films have made an average of $72M per picture, including the turkeys. How many producers in Hollywood can boast that kind of track record?
Wow, not many. Now tell me — How many have made their last two movies turn out so poorly? And how many have gotten bad reviews on personal story scripts? Where reviews matter? His audience has left him and grown up a bit, and new kids don’t care as much about his work. His heart is in the right place but his product is not.
And wow, The Guild Trip is a studio movie and you still think people are going to pay for Seth Rogen and anyone that isn’t Meryl Streep in this economy. Seth Rogen I love, but his shelf life has run out, and most young people today have no idea who Barbra Streisand is. I’m 37 and she’s old for my generation, thought we acknowledge her as a legend. To these kids, Britney Spears was before their time. It’s 2012, you made 6 million on that many screens? Irresponsible programming.
Glad to see ‘Jack Reacher’ doing so well. Unlike so many others, I always thought Tom Cruise would do a great job pulling off the character. He may not look like Reacher, but he “acts” like Reacher.
Guardians could DOUBLE last weekend?
That’s almost unheard of.
Over it with Judd…his best movies are behind him. I gave 40 a shot and as expected it was another Judd fiasco. He makes great trailers…maybe he should focus on commercials
One other thing. “Jack Reacher” is helped a lot by a marvelous music score by Joe Kraemer. The haunting music theme is still with me.
Jack Reacher would have been more believable if an actor had been cast who had hair on their balls. Tom Cruise proved all the way back in Taps that he’s unintentionally hilarious when he stomps his foot and acts mad. He just comes off like a two year old having a tantrum in the supermarket because his mommy wouldn’t buy him a Snickers.
I take offense to that. Snickers is an excellent candy bar. We all know Cruise doesn’t have good taste. He’d probably go for a 100 Grand since that’s all he’s worth anymore.
Jim Brooks sitcom with Cassavetes improv and Mercury Theater comedy rep company. Very talented guy (Apatow) but I fear that audiences have caught on to the formula which may seriously curtail future deals and budgets. Looking forward to seeing him get out of his comfort zone and challenge himself. (Haven’t seen the movie but I’m going to. As with Brooks definitely drawn to his work generally but then I’m also a neurotic white guy who goes on way too long and falls in love with his own material.) Sorry folks. Sorry haters. Leslie Mann is world class smooch-able. There are lots of things she should try to do.
Judd has a real talent for surrounding himself with talented people. He is to comedy filmmaking what Madonna is to pop music! And I think Mann is his greatest asset. Haters be damned.
And “40″ budget is $65 million, not $50 million. It will show up in next Comcast quarterly analysis, so no need to hide.
I don’t understand why everyone launches impassioned censure against Judd Apatow, as if he’s some kind of horrible person. If you dislike his movies, your opinion is valid, as they are no more than squalid, repetitive comedies. But why is it “creepy” that he chooses to write about the life he knows? Why is it wrong for him to cast his wife, especially when she isn’t miscast? Why is it offensive that he casts his daughters in the roles of the children?
I’ve never said this before, but I really do believe it’s a case of professional jealousy.
You’ve obviously never worked with him.
Dies everyone on this thread work at Paramount?? enough about how great Jack Reacher is (it’s not) or how great the marketing was (again, it’s not), or how surprised you are that Guilt Trip didn’t work (again shitty and lazy in both fronts). Anyone going to sing the praises of the Circ movie?? you all are ridiculous.
He didnt say he doesnt want to see movies based on others lives, just not apatows entitled life, you douchebag. The movie has two laughs in it. The rest will only be funny to those who r rich and live in brentwood.
HA! Ringtgedouche Is so right, TI40 Is really only funny like twice and the rest will only be funny to Brentwood ballers. So yes I laughed out loud a few times but more because I see those dbags every day. 40 is a terrible movie
Ray Stevenson or Gerard Butler would have killed it.