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Over/Under Movies Buries ‘Death At A Funeral,’ Savors ‘Eating Raoul’ [Podcast]

September 28, 2017 1:23 pm

Welcome to another edition of Over/Under Movies, the podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film — similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit — and we discuss them. On...

Weekend Box Office: ‘Iron Man 2’ Doesn’t Break Box Office Record, Is Now Worthless In The Record Books

Gabe Toro

May 8, 2010 6:00 pm

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It looks like Marvel can close up shop and cancel all plans for their shared universe. "Iron Man 2" has failed, loudly and embarrassingly. By not achieving the biggest box office weekend of all time, and onl...

Weekend Box Office: On Slow Weekend, ‘The Back-Up Plan’ Serves As Back-Up Plan To ‘Dragon’

Gabe Toro

April 25, 2010 7:13 pm

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In the slowest weekend of the moviegoing year, "How To Train Your Dragon" has managed to best all prognostications and blast its way back to first place, now in its fifth week. There was very little dropoff fro...

Paul Rudd Circling ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’ & ‘Horrible Bosses’

Mark Z.

April 22, 2010 3:45 am

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If you've seen the trailer for the upcoming "Dinner For Schmucks," you know Paul Rudd is playing the straight man...again. Either he must relish riffing while in ordinary guy mode or he's being viciously typeca...

‘Death At A Funeral’ Creative Team Line Up ‘A Few Best Men’

Christopher Bell

April 20, 2010 3:06 pm

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Australian director Stephan Elliott ("Easy Virtue," "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert") is set to direct the comedy "A Few Best Men" for Arclight Films. "Death at a Funeral" producers Laurence M...

Box Office: ‘How To Train Dragon’ Makes 4th Week Comeback To Kick ‘Kick-Ass’ Ass Hard

Kimber Myers

April 18, 2010 5:45 pm

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Let's just say that it wasn't quite the brutal beating that Hit Girl and Big Daddy would have liked. Matthew Vaughn's hyperviolent "Kick-Ass" drew blood from fellow opener "Death at a Funeral" and holdover "Dat...

In Theaters: ‘Kick-Ass,’ ‘Death at a Funeral,’ ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’

Hunter McClamrock

April 16, 2010 5:31 pm

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Two new films opening wide this week, both with R ratings, but aimed at wildly different audiences. With a modest budget of 28 million, "Kick-Ass" should find the road to profitability to be relatively free and...

American ‘Death At A Funeral’ Trailer Shows Remake To Be EXACTLY Like The Original

Gabe Toro

December 5, 2009 11:42 pm

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The American trailer for "Death At A Funeral," the remake to the British hit of 2007, has just surfaced. We're very much against the idea of Americans remaking recent foreign films, since the only thing they'r...

LaBute To Keep Cranking Out Films

Seth Valentine

January 28, 2009 2:46 am

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We'll file this one under "Y" for "YAWN." Looks like quintessential schlub's schlub Neil LaBute has just signed a two-picture deal with Screen Gems following the improbable success of "Lakeview Terrace." If you...

Chris Rock To Remake ‘Death At A Funeral’

Rodrigo Perez

November 10, 2008 2:24 pm

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Chris Rock is really into remaking movies these days, and international ones too. 2007's "I Think I Love My Wife" was a remake of Éric Rohmer's 1972 film, "Love in the Afternoon" (a great little film) and now t...

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