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A whole bunch of new stills have dropped for The Hangover Part III . Check out a few of them below, then head over to our friends at Movie Fanatic to view all the new The Hangover Part III stills : The Wolfpack returns for the third installment of the comedy franchise. This time, they are stopped by a criminal on their way to rehab and forced to return to Vegas to find Chow. Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, Jeffrey Tambor, Gillian Vigman, Sasha Barrese, Jamie Chung, Mike Epps, and Melissa McCarthy star. Catch The Hangover Part III in theaters May 23.
Pain and Gain is like if a Coen Brothers movie and a Scorsese movie had a baby and that baby disappointed its parents and went into porn. At its core, the film is about a trio of hapless men just trying to get ahead in life, but who end up getting in way over their heads. The difference between Pain and Gain and every Coen Brothers movie with that premise is that Michael Bay’s hapless men aren’t timid and pathetic. They’re not looking for recompense or justice. They’re just greedy meatheads. Mark Wahlberg stars as Daniel Lugo, a bodybuilder not satisfied with his decent job doing literally the only thing he knows how to do: personal training. When a rich sandwich magnate named Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub) who’s less of an “asshole,” as Lugo describes him, and more of an annoying weirdo, becomes his client, he decides to twist the advice of a hack motivational speaker played by Ken Jeong ( The Hangover Part III ), and extort him for all he’s worth. To help him, Lugo enlists fellow bodybuilders Adrian Doorbal, played by Anthony Mackie, and ex-con Paul Doyle, played by Dwayne Johnson. As you would expect, the three have no clue what they’re doing, and after a series of failed attempts thought up on the fly, they finally capture Kershaw. The only problem? He won’t sign away all of his material possessions willingly. What follows is a frenetic mess of half-baked ideas to make their plan happen. It’s at times hilarious, and at times truly terrifying in its misguided, unnecessary violence. Bay is the most unapologetically showy director working today. His films are notoriously devoid of character development and plot, and Pain and Gain is really no different. Everything is surface. Characters straight up say what they’re thinking to each other. Voiceovers are given to every major player, in a way that is much less charming and plot-serving than in Casino or Goodfellas . Scenes freeze and captions are thrown up reminding us that yes, this is a true story. The color pallet is bright and saturated. Nothing much remains unseen. And American flags litter the frame. We get it, American dream, yadda yadda. With all its brazenness, though, Pain and Gain actually works. Bay’s style of roided-out Hollywood blatancy fits the story, and given that Bay began in the 90s and has seemed to long for them ever since, he seems comfortable making a movie set in that decade. Pain and Gain would be hard to truly love as a film, though. Not because its characters are idiots, or because their motivations are extremely under-defined (when did that drug addiction come back?? Meh, who cares), but the film, like most of Bay’s works, seems entirely built to make a cool trailer. Trailers are flashy. They say very little. They’re meant to draw you to the theater. But once you’re there, you’re supposed to get more. Well, with Pain and Gain , you don’t get more. In fact, if you’ve seen the trailers, you could probably show up an hour late to the film and know everything the audience knows. That’s a problem. RATING: 2.5/5
Up until now, we haven’t known a whole lot about the plot of The Hangover Part III except that the Wolfpack returns to Vegas. The latest trailer, however, is by far the most plot-heavy look at the final installment of the comedy franchise. So if you like to know what a film is about before hitting the theater, watch below: The Hangover Part III Trailer So in addition to seeing Melissa McCarthy for the first time (woohoo!), what have we gathered about the plot? Well first, the gang isn’t returning to Vegas of their own volition, because that would be ridiculous. In fact, they should probably all just lock themselves in a small room. They’re actually taking Zach Galifianakis’ character Alan to rehab, when they’re intercepted by a John Goodman, who forces them to help him locate Chow (Ken Jeong). Enter Las Vegas. Looks like The Hangover Part III could actually be a decent cap to the franchise. What do you think? Catch the comedy in theaters May 24.
This is… interesting: Warner Bros. and Todd Phillips have brought in writer/directors Mark and Jay Duplass to have a crack at adapting Mule , Tony D’Souza’s novel about a couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it in the recession. Phillips would direct, making the project the first time the Duplasses, who recently drew mixed reviews with Jeff, Who Lives at Home , did not direct one of their scripts. Unless Phillips goes off and spends the next two years on The Hangover Part III , in which case I guess it might be the brothers’ first time directing an adaptation. Wait and see, etc. [ Deadline ]
Where does Martin Scorsese stand on the enduring cultural clash between vampires and zombies? Where else? “I happen to like vampires more than zombies. A vampire, quite honestly, you could have a conversation with. He has a sexuality. I mean the undead thing… Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them. It’s a whole other thing that apparently means a great deal to our culture and our society. There are many, many books written about it and many movies. I saw one in London when I was doing Hugo. I saw one late at night one weekend. It was called Colin, by a young filmmaker [Marc Price]. He shot it, I think, digitally by himself, edited it himself. It was savage. It had an energy that took the zombie idea to another level. Really interesting filmmaking. Disturbing.” Also: He gets Raging Bull II just about as much as you and I do. [ GQ via /film ]
I hesitate to even pass along word of the luxury fashion purveyor’s ongoing litigiousness lest this site land in its hungry crosshairs, but: Have you heard about the lengths to which Louis Vuitton is going to keep its brand safe from the grubby likes of The Hangover Part II ? Or how another, recently resolved court victory has possibly shored up its case against the film’s studio Warner Bros.? Memo to Hollywood: Either get your clearances up front or do not even think of messing with these guys. This has been going on for a while , but THR Esq. now offers up the bone-chilling latest: On March 22, a judge granted a summary judgment victory to Louis Vuitton over a Super Bowl TV commercial produced by Hyundai that featured for approximately one second a basketball that bore resemblance to a flower-like symbol on chestnut-brown background design that was trademarked by Louis Vuitton. The French brand says that the judge’s decision two weeks ago shows why it should be able to go forward with its claims against Warner Bros. for infringing and diluting its trademark by showing for one brief moment in [ The Hangover Part II ] Zach Galifianakis telling someone who pushes his bag, “Be careful, that is … that is a Lewis Vuitton.” In mid-March, Warner Bros. responded to the lawsuit by telling a New York judge that it had a First Amendment right to feature trademarks and incorporate real-life references to brands without getting the consent of owners. The studio added there wasn’t any confusion, and if there was, it was de minimis and/or the responsibility of the company that had actually produced the knock-off handbag. Meanwhile, the designer isn’t backing down, arguing in a court filing (with its victory versus Hyundai in mind) that “Louis Vuitton’s ‘aggressive’ enforcement of its trademark rights and prompt action against those who misuse its trademarks are necessary concomitants of its exclusive rights in the brand.” Fine, but to what end? Is “the brand” — and apparently its business — so fragile that millions of dollars in legal expenses are themselves necessary concomitants of relevancy in 2012? Or is this just the more socially permissible way of shoring up the market share that all those knock-off merchants in Lower Manhattan have eroded in recent years? Either way, to all you screenwriters and studio legal departments alike: Maybe stick to Samsonite? [ THR Esq .] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
‘Twas the weekend of Christmas, and all through the house, many studio executives had good reason to grouse… Ugh, sorry about that — it’s the egg nog. In fairness, the holiday frame actually signaled a nice rebound from previous weekends (which, when considering the utter horror show this month’s been, isn’t saying so much, but still). Who got what they wanted for Christmas, and who did Santa all but skip? Your Weekend Receipts are here. [All figures are four-day weekend estimates, with the exception of War Horse and The Darkest Hour , which opened Sunday.] 1. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Gross: $46,210,000 ($78,645,000) Screens: 3,448 (PSA $13,402) Weeks: 2 (Change: +261.4%) Oh, so this is how Scientologists celebrate Christmas : With a franchise windfall that ran away with the box-office crown. Xenu? Er, I mean, who knew? 2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Gross: $31,810,000 ($90,564,000) Screens: 3,703 (PSA $8,590) Weeks: 2 (Change: -19.7%) Enh. I’m more interested to see how this performs internationally, which will likely dictate how, when or even if your third Sherlock Holmes sausage is made. Just roll it in with Iron Man 3 and let Robert Downey Jr. move on with his life, already. 3. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked Gross: $20,000,000 ($56,940,000) Screens: 3,734 Weeks: 2 (Change: -14%) Raise your hand if you thought that the second weekend of Chipwrecked would outgross the first weekend of the PG-rated We Bought a Zoo by a nearly two-to-one margin. On Christmas, even! Maybe Fox should have bumped that awesome Marley and Me sequel to theaters instead. 4. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Gross: $19,400,000 ($27,776,000) Screens: 2,914 (PSA $6,658) Weeks: 1 Clearly the parents who suffered through Chipwrecked needed this bracing Fincherian pick-me-up. Nice timing, Sony! 5. The Adventures of Tintin Gross: $16,100,000 ($24,107,000) Screens: 3,087 (PSA: $5,215) Weeks: 1 In the battle of the movie terriers, Tintin ‘s Snowy was no match for The Artist ‘s Uggie — at least when it came to per screen average, $8,400 to $5,200. Honestly I have no other insights or observations to bring to this. 6. We Bought a Zoo Gross: $15,600,000 Screens: 3,117 (PSA: $5,005) Weeks: 1 Speaking of animal performers, what happened to Crystal the Monkey? First The Hangover Part II made more than half a billion dollars; then Zookeeper slid in with less than a third of that. Now she’s doing holiday tricks for America’s pocket change. Someone mount an intervention, pronto. 7. War Horse Gross: $15,025,000 Screens: 2,376 (PSA: $6,324) Weeks: 1 A miraculous horse! OK, not quite — but still: That’s not a bad two-day showing at all for a two-and-a-half-hour non-sequel with no stars and stiff competition (and not-so-stiff competition; The Darkest Hour was dead on arrival with $5,500,000) up and down the multiplex corridor. I’m very curious to see how this holds in the weeks ahead, if only so we might have the much-needed War Goose spinoff a few Christmases from now. Fingers crossed… [Figures via Box Office Mojo ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
Actor says Todd Phillips is working on the script now. By Gil Kaufman Bradley Cooper Photo: 2011 WireImage First the good news: Bradley Cooper says that “The Hangover Part III” is in the works. The bad news: it won’t start shooting until next September. During an appearance on England’s “Graham Norton Show” to promote the DVD release of the $327 domestically million-grossing sequel, Cooper teased that a third edition of the series is in the works. “I personally want to do it. I hope we’re going to start shooting in September,” Cooper said. “I know [director] Todd Phillips is working on the script.” Norton joked that the $581 million worldwide take of the sequel — which Cooper noted is the highest-grossing comedy of all time — suggests that someone might want to greenlight the next chapter. “$581 million, I imagine someone will make that, even if it’s half as successful, it’s worth doing,” Norton laughed. Fishing around for what the subject matter might be, say, perhaps a hangover, Cooper rubbed his chin and speculated that new things might be afoot for “Part III.” “We adhered to the formula in the second one, for those of you who’ve seen it, and the third one, which would close the whole sort of trilogy, which now it would be a trilogy — even though we thought we would never make a second one, let alone anybody see the first one — I think it will take place in Los Angeles and maybe not adhere to the structure. It might be different,” he said. Phillips told reporters back in May that he was definitely down for another go ’round. “Quite honestly we really haven’t talked about it as we just finished the movie two weeks ago, this is the first time we’ve all been together in awhile,” Phillips said at a press conference. “If we were to do a third one, if the audience… if the desire was there… I think we have a clear idea where that would head and it’s certainly not in the same template you’ve seen these movies … ” Obviously we always envisioned it as a trilogy as you can imagine. The third would very much a finale and an ending. The most I could say about it and I haven’t discussed it with these actors is that it is not following that template but very much a new idea.”
Despite some chatter to the contrary , comedies are alive and well in Hollywood this summer. Especially R-rated comedies: the combined domestic grosses of The Hangover Part II , Bridesmaids and Bad Teacher are closing in on $500 million. Into this landscape arrives Horrible Bosses (out Friday), the Seth Gordon-directed comedy about three dudes who try to kill their titular terrible employers. How come Bosses works so well when some other summer comedies have not?
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