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Podcast is Back The Big Sick, Baby Driver, Dunkirk, and more Charlize Theron in Jade Scorpion an early peak at greatness in a terrible movie Bright Or, 'how will we define a Netflix blockbuster?' Soundtracking Chris revisits Young Adult Roundtable Drama Reese, Jessica, Oprah and more on the hunt for Emmy Being There (1979) unexpected essential viewing for 2017 Okja's many delights on Netflix An Ode to Joan Harris for Mad Men's 10th anniversary An Ode to Julia Tfe's first restaurant review (wait, what?) The Furniture leered through Fassbinder's erotic Querelle Emmy Reactions our favorite nominations Emmy Reactions but how did they pass up ____?
Coming In August: Robert Mitchum's Centennial, Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit, Emmy discussions as the TV Academy does their final voting,...
- 7/31/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The summer 2017 box office calendar promised us laughter. It also promised that we’d see girls behaving just as badly as the boys. Girls Trip and Rough Night were promoted as the raunchy femme answer to The Hangover and the direct descendant of the ultimate R-rated female comedy Bridesmaids.
However, what we got from summer 2017 was a series of comedic flops -- with Will Ferrell seeing his lowest box office returns with The House, reboots like Baywatch and CHiPs failing to land with audiences, and Rough Night ultimately earning less money to date than last year’s big hit, Bad Moms, did in its opening weekend.
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“You know, comedies haven’t worked this summer. They’ve been having a hard time. Audiences have not been coming out in droves for comedies,” Girls Trip producer Will Packer admitted to Et’s Kevin Frazier at the...
However, what we got from summer 2017 was a series of comedic flops -- with Will Ferrell seeing his lowest box office returns with The House, reboots like Baywatch and CHiPs failing to land with audiences, and Rough Night ultimately earning less money to date than last year’s big hit, Bad Moms, did in its opening weekend.
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- 7/21/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
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