Posts Tagged ‘Bridesmaids’

Looking Closely At Kristen Wiig’s Nail Polish In Bridesmaids

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Looking Closely At Kristen Wiig’s Nail Polish In Bridesmaids

Lynda Obst Sees Legacy In Bridesmaids

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Lynda Obst Sees Legacy In Bridesmaids

Bridesmaids About To Best B.O. Of All Apatow Productions; Soon, Topping Sex And The City As Highest-Grossing R-Rating Femme-Centric Comedy Pic

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Bridesmaids About To Best B.O. Of All Apatow Productions; Soon, Topping Sex And The City As Highest-Grossing R-Rating Femme-Centric Comedy Pic

The Bridesmaids Effect?

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

The Bridesmaids Effect?

Box Office Hell — June 2

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com
X-Men: First Class |72.6|n/a|58.0|60.0|69.0
The Hangover Part II |40.0|n/a|38.0|40.0|37.0
Kung Fu Panda 2 |26.5|n/a|24.0|26.0|26.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides|18.1|n/a|12.0|18.0|19.5
Bridesmaids |12.4|n/a|n/a|13.0|12.0
Midnight in Paris|2.8|n/a|n/a|n/a|2.7
The Tree of Life |.76|n/a|n/a|n/a|n/a

Box Office Hell — May 27

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com
The Hangover Part II |94.6|n/a|98.0|92.0|100.0
Kung Fu Panda 2 |82.5|n/a|77.0|81.0|90.0
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides|49.0|n/a|53.0|55.0|42.0
Bridesmaids |17.7|n/a|19.0|15.0|17.0
Thor|10.0|n/a|11.0|10.0|8.2

Box Office Hell — May 20

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides|91.5|88.0|98.0|93.0|92.0
Thor |18.0|n/a|20.0|17.5|18.0
Bridesmaids|17.0|n/a|17.0|18.0|19.2
Fast Five |11.5|n/a|12.0|12.0|11.5
Priest 3D|6.1|n/a|n/a|6.0|6.0

Megham Daum On Bridesmaids Breaking The Glass Whoopee Cushion

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Megham Daum On Bridesmaids Breaking The Glass Whoopee Cushion

Friday Estimates by Klady (analysis by poland)

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

It looks like everything in the Top Five will slightly underperform the guesstimates out there going into the weekend. But nothing shocking. There is still a tiny chance that Bridesmaids will end up beating Thor over the course of the weekend, despite what is now – scarily – a decent hold for a big opener. This puts Thor, again, in position as comparable to Hulk (69.7%), The Incredible Hulk (60.1%), and another Marvel classic, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (65.5%).

It’s a weird feeling when a 60% second weekend drop is no longer seen as a disaster. But that is how things have changed. Frontloading, as designed by the distributors. C. Nikki has been told by her keepers at Paramount that Thor will drop only 51%… oy. 58% is possible, but 59% or 60% seem more likely. I can’t find a movie with numbers that suggest a Friday drop of 65% leading to a weekend drop of 51%. We’ll see when the dust clears.

Back to Bridesmaids… a big Saturday uptick is what may or may not happen. It could surprise, if women can convince their boys that it’s going to be fun and make it a date night event. Thor is still probably a couple million beyond its grasp. But still… a solid start for a small movie in the second weekend of summer dumping ground. It’s interesting to see how the sales pitch of this being a female Hangover has worked for audiences, but irritated some self-hating feminists on principle.

A decent hold for Fast Five. It became the biggest domestic grosser of all the Fast/Furious films yesterday and was already the leader internationally. And it has at least another $50 million worldwide in it after this weekend… perhaps $100m, closing in on the $500 million worldwide mark where the big franchises live. Only the last two Bonds will have grossed more.

Something Jumping The Borrowed Broom has identical Friday-to-Friday drops.

And Priest 3D couldn’t be so bad… except that the birth of this thing was so very long and hard and expensive over time (adding 3D, etc). But Sony is pushing the movie hard overseas and it will be interesting to see if that pays off. It could be a case where it does $35 million here and $80 million overseas and everyone at Sony is pleased.

On the smaller release front, more soft numbers (thanks to VOD?) with Everything Must Go and Hesher doing about $3k a screen. Lionsgate’s Go For It is a complete tank.

Review: Bridesmaids

Friday, May 13th, 2011

It’s funny.

It’s a mess of a movie. But it’s funny.

Kristin Wiig is a funny person and would do really well to have a strong director or producer helping her to color inside the lines a bit more. A movie is not a sketch show. However, she is very funny.

If they gave out Oscars for comedy performances, you couldn’t find a better nominee than Melissa McCarthy, who has been a dangerous, scene-stealing comedic actor all the way back to Go in ’99. She kills in this film… worth the price of admission all by herself. In great part it’s because of what she gets to play… the fat girl who doesn’t know and doesn’t really care that she’s fat. Really, this is her Jackie Gleason role… light on her feet, completely convinced of her ideas in the world, and profoundly sincere. She was written as the Zach Galifianakis of this movie… but she is better than that… because she isn’t out of control, she’s remarkably grounded.

Maya Rudolph is the straight man here and does a nice job with it.

Wendi McLendon-Covey was the surprise in this core cast for me. I don’t recall seeing her before, though she has a long resume. But she’s dry and funny with some wonderfully raunchy and truthful dialogue here. Underused.

Rose Byrne was pretty perfect in her role… but that is where the movie goes a little off the rails for me. The story is basically Wiig’s character vs Byrne’s, fighting for the “soul” of the bride. But because this is really a Kristin Wiig movie, the balance is way off. That said, the third act for the Byrne character is quite smartly written.

The film also really rocks the secondary characters. For me, the small turn by Matt Lucas an Rebel Wilson was glorious. Chris O’Dowd was interesting and unexpected as Rhodes. Seeing Franklyn Ajaye as Maya Rudolph’s dad was very cool, as was Jimmy Brogan as the priest. And Jon Hamm has a good old time as a pig man who says what he really thinks.

I laughed a lot in this movie. I recommend it. But I wish I could say that I thought it was up to the best of the Apatow: The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Talladega Nights… even Anchorman. The problem with Apatow as a producer is that he doesn’t seem to rein anyone in. So this film, which would have improved significantly by cutting 10 minutes or so, is allowed too much rope. Paul Feig is a competent, but not outstanding feature director. He’s a terrific TV director. But the writer is in control of the television show set. Here, the buck stops with the director. And with two very talented, but new-to-features screenwriters (Wiig and Annie Mumolo), someone needed to fight for the filmmaking even when it made the crew laugh.

I don’t think the film lives up to some of the pretensions being hoisted onto it. Nor does it deserve some of the brickbats. It’s just a pleasant, funny couple of hours at the movies with a few great moments. It’s not as daring as The Hangover… or even The Hangover Part II. But it doesn’t have to be. It is likely to make you laugh… often. Duh! Winning!

Box Office Hell — May 13

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Our Players|Coming Soon|Box Office Prophets|Box Office Guru|EW|Box Office . com
Thor|34.5|n/a|30.0|32.0|33.0
Bridesmaids |25.0|n/a|17.0|38.0|17.5
Priest|18.3|n/a|16.0|15.0|16.5
Fast Five |16.5|n/a|16.0|14.0|17.2
Jumping the Broom|8.1|n/a|n/a|9.0|8.5

Critics Roundup — May 13

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Bridesmaids|Green||Green|Green|
City of Life and Death (NY)|Green||Green|Green|
The First Grader|||Green|Green|
Priest|||||
Skateland||||Yellow|
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls||||Green|
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (NY)|||Green||
Make Believe|||Red||

The Woz Types The Bridesmaids

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

The Woz Types The Bridesmaids