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‘Ride Along’ Detours To Universal As Kevin Hart And Ice Cube Vehicle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 11:31am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, Ride-Along, Tim Story, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired Ride Along out of turnaround from New Line and the studio has set a late October production start with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube starring, and Tim Story directing. The comedy, which has drafts from scribes that include The Dictator co-star Jason Mantzoukas, will get a rewrite from the scribe team of Matt Manfredi & Phil Hay.

The film will be produced by Cube Vision’s Ice Cube, LBI Entertainment’s Matt Alvarez with Rainforest Films’ Will Packer, and by Larry Brezner. The project had languished at New Line, partly over trying to figure out the leads, but Universal was ready to move quickly in reteaming Story, Hart and Packer after Think Like A Man, a sleeper hit that has grossed $91 million domestic for Screen Gems. Hart will play a second-grade teacher who is ready to get married, but first he must survive a Training Day-like ride-along experience with his fiancee’s tough cop brother, who doesn’t want the marriage to happen and tries to scare off the suitor. READ MORE »

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Screen Gems Casts ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 24, 2011 @ 6:40am PDTTags: Gabrielle Union, Gary Owen, Kevin Hart, Michael Ealy, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

Screen Gems has set the cast to surround Kevin Hart in Think Like A Man, the comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling book. Michael Ealy, Jerry Ferrara, Taraji Henson, Romany Malco, Gary Owen and Gabrielle Union have joined the cast. … Read More »

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Tim Story Set To Direct Screen Gems Comedy ‘Think Like A Man’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 1:37pm PDTTags: Kevin Hart, Screen Gems, Steve Harvey, Tim Story, Will Packer
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Sony has given the film a wide-release date: April 6, 2012.
PREVIOUS, EXCLUSIVE: Screen Gems has set Tim Story to direct Think Like A Man, the ensemble comedy based on Steve Harvey’s bestselling 2009 book Act Like A … Read More »

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