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  • ‘Instant Family’ Starring Mark Wahlberg Gets Earlier Release Date

    ‘Instant Family’ Starring Mark Wahlberg Gets Earlier Release Date

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    “Instant Family” is giving us some more instant gratification: We no longer have to wait till 2019 to see the upcoming Mark Wahlberg-starring film.

    Paramount adjusted its calendar to make the shift. “Instant Family” is now opening on Nov. 16, just shy of three months earlier than its previous Feb. 15, 2019 release date, Variety reports. Apparently, test audiences have been enjoying it, so the studio decided it could be a good fit for the holiday season.

    That is a kin-centric time of year, so “Instant Family” may indeed be a big draw. Based on real-life experiences of writer-director Sean Anders, it stars Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as a couple who go through the foster system to adopt and end up with a trio of rambunctious kids. Anders wrote the script with John Morris, and they are producing with Wahlberg and Steve Levinson.

    In addition to Wahlberg and Byrne, the film stars Octavia Spencer, Tig Notaro, Isabela Moner, Iliza Shlesinger, and Tom Segura, so you’ll have a chance to spend the holidays with some great actors. There may be stiff box office competition for “Instant Family,” though, as other movies coming out that day include “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” and “Widows.”

    “Instant Family” hits theaters Nov. 16.

    [via: Variety]

  • Emilio Estevez Is Hollywood’s Most Profitable Star, According To New Study

    Emilio EstevezEmilio Estevez is Hollywood’s most profitable star … if you go back to 1980.

    A new study by something called PartyCasino analyzed box office numbers and declared the former Brat Packer the most profitable of any top-billed male actor who starred in at least 10 films from 1980 to 2017. Gotta be those “Mighty Ducks” dollars.

    According to the study, for every $1 spent on his films, Estevez generated $6.70 at the box office. The runners-up will also surprise you: Jean-Claude Van Damme ranked second with $4.20 for each dollar, followed by Mel Gibson ($3.50) and Tyler Perry ($3). (Perry’s latest film, “‘Boo 2! A Madea Halloween” is expected to top the box office this weekend.) “10” star Dudley Moore (who died in 2002) tied Perry with a $3 per film return.

    So who’s the least profitable? Only A-lister Brad Pitt! He supposedly returned only 10 cents for every $1 spent, followed by Johnny Depp (20 cents), Robert De Niro (24 cents), Hugh Jackman (25 cents), and Anthony Hopkins (26 cents).

    The study also crunched numbers for actresses, but as a representative told the New York Post, “women, unfortunately, are less likely to be the top-billed actor for a movie.” Still, of the women they counted, Rose Byrne — whose films include “Bridesmaids,” “X-Men: First Class,” and “Neighbors” — was the most profitable with a whopping $9.80 for every budgeted dollar.

    She was followed up by “Girls Trip” star Regina Hall ($3.50) and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer ($2.90). Get those women more jobs, stat!

    As for highest-earning genres, “mystery films” topped the list, followed by horror films and thrillers. Hard to believe, but documentaries returned almost four times more money than action films. At the bottom of the list? “Crime pictures” and musicals. (Sorry, Best Picture Winner “Chicago.”)

    [Via Variety, THR]

  • Rose Byrne: Oiling Up Shirtless Zac Efron Was ‘Disgusting’

    US-ENTERTAINMENT-CINEMA-NEIGHBORS 2Rose Byrne is a comedy star on the rise, whether you (or she) realizes it or not.

    With comedically supercharged co-stars like Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, and Lisa Kudrow, the actress is in hilarious company in “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” but let’s not forget that Byrne herself has an enviable Hollywood comedy career, with huge hits like “Bridesmaids,” “Neighbors,” and “Spy” under her belt. And she’s showing no signs of slowing down.

    We recently sat down with Byrne to talk about why it made sense for her to do a sequel to 2014’s comedy hit “Neighbors,” why she and Seth make such a great team, how her pregnancy affected filming, and what oiling up a shirtless Zac Efron is really like (hint: it’s not as sexy as it sounds).

    Moviefone: At one point did you decide you’d be game for a follow-up — immediately after the first one? After the script?

    Rose Byrne: Pretty early. … I wanted to know what the idea was. It evolved until I was ready to say yes. It was always a collaboration, too. They’re very collaborative — Nick [Stoller], Seth, and Evan [Goldberg] — the whole team. So I definitely loved doing the first one. I loved working with Seth and Zac and Nick, who is a dear friend and gave me my break in comedy. So when I got the chance to work with him again, I was like, ‘I would love to do a sequel. Obviously, it would be really fun.’ Yeah, it was pretty fast, really. It’s 2016, and the movie — the other one — only came out in 2014. So it is a pretty incredibly fast turn around if you think about it.

    What makes you and Seth such a great on-screen team?

    He very much entertains me, Seth. And perhaps maybe I entertain him. I’m not sure — you’ll have to ask him. But I think we have a sense of entertaining one another, so that’s a big plus. That gift goes a long way. And he’s very perceptive. His comedy always comes from such great observational moments and beats, and it always catches me unaware. Chemistry’s so strange, isn’t it? It’s something that you can’t predict. It doesn’t matter. Even when people hate each other, that’s good chemistry.

    I’ve given up trying to figure out how you get it or how you don’t because you do your best on the day and everything, but you just never know what’s going to read and what isn’t. So we were really lucky with it. Nick Stoller’s a really incredible director, and he’s very good at casting. He’s such a big part of it, obviously, and he’s always consistently — always his movies have great actors in them.

    Seth is famously improvisational, but where do you fall on the improv scale?

    I’m OK. I’ve gotten to see and watch the best people in the world, like Seth and Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy and Maya Rudolph, Russell Brand, Jonah Hill — these incredible people I’ve watched do it. But my talent is a little ephemeral — sometimes it’s there and sometimes it’s not. It’s not effortless to me, whereas it is for those guys. I didn’t come from an improv background.

    Why do you think it’s important to portray women behaving badly on screen?

    It’s interesting. I just did this film with Susan Sarandon called “The Meddler,” and we were promoting it the last few weeks. She’s one of my idols — I love her. She somehow brought up “Thelma & Louise.” We were talking about that in the interview, and she was saying that at the time, it was so controversial because it was women behaving badly, and they were all like, “This is going to be groundbreaking and this is going to change everything.” And I was like, wow, that’s exactly what they said when we did “Bridesmaids.” It’s the same thing. It’s a cyclical thing.

    I guess it’s gotta come to a point where it’s not a talking point, which would be interesting, that it’s like, oh, women can behave any way they want because they’re fully fledged human beings with lots of different interesting things. They can be flawed and they can be brilliant and they can be dull and they can be as mean as the guys. So that was really sort of interesting thing to hear her talk about and realize, oh, things have changed, but have they changed that much? Not really. So films like “Neighbors” are great because they enable the women to be in on the fun. In films like “The Hangover” or “Grown Ups” or whatever other types of comedies like that, the women aren’t always allowed in on the fun. Something like this is very different.

    You oiled up a shirtless Zac Efron in this movie. What was that like?

    That was hilarious. It was with Ike as well, so we were just laughing, and Nick just kept encouraging us to take it very seriously and to really enjoy it — and the more we sat there, the more we started laughing. We were rubbing pork fat on him. It’s ridiculous. The actual stuff was disgusting. It was like a real piece of meat that had been cooked and seasoned in all this oregano and thyme, and then it was injected with baby oil to make it really, really greasy. So it was disgusting. It was absolutely disgusting. I couldn’t get it off my hands. It was this whole thing. So we were also totally grossed out.

    The sex scenes in both “Neighbors” movies are so funny — how are they choreographed?

    It’s funny — it’s much harder to do an intimate one that is actually very real. That’s a more challenging [thing], whereas a comedy sex scene, it’s comedic. It’s supposed to be ridiculous and funny. We’ve done the first one, so after being milked, really nothing is that bad. Everything else is like, you can’t really throw anything at me now.

    You were actually pregnant during filming, so did that affect the story?

    They had actually toyed with the idea of making Kelly pregnant before I told them, so when I told them, they were fine. They were like, ‘Great! That’s it.’

    Did you have to scale back on the physical comedy?

    A little bit. I think there was a scene where they wanted me to do a cartwheel. I was like, ‘Uh, I can’t do a cartwheel.’ So a little bit, but not too much. I really enjoyed working through my pregnancy. Everyone was very nice to me. So I plan to do it on every job. Wish me luck.'Neighbors 2' Interview: The Objectification of Zac Efron

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  • Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne Couldn’t Stop Laughing While Filming This ‘Neighbors 2’ Scene

    “Neighbors 2” is a comedy, so it’s supposed to make the audience laugh out loud. But even the actors couldn’t get through the movie without laughing in the middle of a scene… or all of them. Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, and Zac Efron tell us which scene was the hardest to film without breaking character.

  • ‘Bridesmaids’: 10 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About the Hit Comedy

    You can pinpoint the moment almost precisely when “Bridesmaids” changed comedy.

    Upon the movie’s release five years ago this week (on May 13, 2011), it was that one notorious food-poisoning scene — you know the one — that proved that an all-female ensemble comedy could be just as raunchy and hilarious and heartfelt as any of producer Judd Apatow‘s bro-centric comedies. The result turned Melissa McCarthy into a breakout star, gave career boosts to costar/co-writer/co-producer Kristen Wiig and director Paul Feig, and launched a wave of hit R-rated comedies starring women.

    Still, as many times as you’ve watched the misadventures of Wiig’s moody maid of honor, there’s plenty you may not know about how the story came together, who almost starred in it, and which scenes were left out.
    1. “Bridesmaids” came about because of Wiig’s cameo as a hostile TV producer in Apatow’s “Knocked Up.” The director urged her to write a screenplay as a vehicle for herself to star in and offered to produce it.

    2. Wiig and writing partner Saturday Night Live.” She’d fly to Los Angeles, improvise scenes with Mumolo during marathon 12-hour sessions, then return to New York.

    3. Mindy Kaling and Rose Byrne both tried out for the role of the bride, Lillian, before it ultimately went to fellow “SNL” vet Maya Rudolph. Byrne got the role she preferred, Helen, the bitchy rival to Wiig’s Annie.
    4. Future “Pitch Perfect” star Rebel Wilson auditioned for Megan, and while that role ultimately went to McCarthy, the filmmakers liked the Australian actress enough to cast her as Brynn, Annie’s eccentric roommate. This was Wilson’s first big Hollywood role. Busy Philipps, who’d co-starred on Feig and Apatow’s TV show, “Freaks and Geeks,” also auditioned to play Megan.

    5. Byrne, the only one of the six stars who didn’t have an improvisational comedy background, had a hard time not cracking up on the set. She also proved the odd woman out when Wiig and Mumolo took the cast to a male strip club as a research trip/bonding experience. Wiig noted that Byrne was uneasy when the others bought her a lap dance. Byrne squirmed as the oily dancer got grease all over her expensive blouse and found herself chattering about Los Angeles traffic. “Totally unsexy,” she recalled during an on-set interview. “I’m like the nerdy, frigid weirdo. But that was fun.”
    6. Early drafts of the script featured a bachelorette party sequence in Las Vegas, but just three weeks before shooting, producer Apatow nixed the scene, complaining that there had been too many recent movies (notably, “The Hangover“) depicting similar Vegas debauchery. Over a single weekend, Wiig and Mumolo wrote the sequence featuring Wiig’s mid-air freakout that keeps the wedding party from reaching Vegas. (That’s Mumolo playing Wiig’s anxious seatmate.) “We took something out, and we were nervous, and we ended up with something better,” Mumolo recalled.

    7. Other scenes that were written but not filmed included a musical number and a scene where the characters fear they’ve discovered Lillian’s corpse but abandon the body with a sigh of relief when they realize it’s a stranger. One filmed sequence that was cut for length was Annie’s blind date with a man who turns out to be a rageaholic, played by no less than Paul Rudd.

    8. “Bridesmaids” cost a reported $32.5 million to produce. It grossed $169.1 million in North America and a total of $288.4 million worldwide, making it the biggest live-action hit to date in the careers of its six stars, director Feig, and producer Apatow.
    9. At the 2012 Oscars, “Bridesmaids” received two nominations, for Best Original Screenplay and for Best Supporting Actress, for McCarthy.

    10. Early on after the film’s success, Wiig announced her refusal to make a “Bridesmaids” sequel, believing there was no way to reunite the characters for a premise that would be as original and funny. For a while, Universal threatened to make a sequel without Wiig, though the studio apparently finally gave up on the idea.

  • Sorority Girls Go Wild in ‘Neighbors 2’ Trailer

    Neighbors 2Only thing worse than living next to a frat house? Living next to a sorority house.

    That’s the lesson Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne learn in “Neighbors 2,” the follow-up to the 2014 hit comedy. A bunch of boozing, drugging, hard-partying girls, led by Chloe Grace Moretz, moves in next door to Rogen and Byrne, and just like in the first movie, the couple declares war on the Greeks. This time, though, they call on their former frat boy enemy (Zac Efron) to get these girls out so they can sell their house and move to the suburbs.
    “Neighbors 2” is certainly not going for Most Inventive Sequel Ever; the plot looks nearly identical to the original. Even some of the slapstick is recycled. But the first one was pretty funny, and Rogen’s physical comedy never gets old.

    “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” opens in theaters May 20.

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  • Chloe Grace Moretz Circling Role in ‘Neighbors 2’

    Louis Vuitton : Outside Arrivals - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016“Neighbors” was a surprise hit when it debuted last year, and now, the cast for its sequel is starting to take shape.

    Variety reports that Chloe Grace Moretz is currently in negotiations to co-star in “Neighbors 2,” which is re-teaming leads Zac Efron and Seth Rogen. There’s no word yet on who Moretz is playing, and no plot details about the sequel have been released so far.

    “Neighbors 2” will mark a rare foray into comedy in Moretz’s already-impressive career. Perhaps this is a turning point for the young actress? After all, her soon-to-be-costar, Rose Byrne (who’s also reprising her role from the original), was also a primarily dramatic actress before she became a comedic powerhouse in flicks like “Bridesmaids” and “Spy.”

    Along with Efron, Rogen, and Byrne, director Nicholas Stoller will also return for round two. Stoller’s co-writing the screenplay with a team that includes Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Andrew Jay Cohen, and Brendan O’Brien.

    “Neighbors 2” is due out on May 13, 2016.

    [via: Variety]

    Photo credit: Getty Images

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  • Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, and Rose Byrne Return for ‘Neighbors 2’

    NeighborsWhat’s worse than living next door to a frat led by Zac Efron? Living next door to a sorority, apparently. In “Neighbors 2,” Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne will reprise their roles from “Neighbors” as harried suburbanites Mac and Kelly Radner, but instead of fighting with Teddy (Efron) and his host of bros as in the first movies, they get the frat brothers to help them put the kibosh on their new neighbors’ sisterly shenanigans.

    Writers Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien and director Nicholas Stoller will also return, because why not? The first “Neighbors” was unique in that it was an original property (i.e. not based on a comic book, toy, franchise, etc.) that still made buckets of money. And, it looked really fun to make. We can only hope that Cohen and O’Brien will take some inspiration from the insane emails from sorority sisters that have been posted on sites like Gawker and Jezebel. (Beware of some seriously adult language.) We can’t wait to see who they cast as the leader of the pack.

    [Via The Hollywood Reporter]
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