EXCLUSIVE: Luke Greenfield, director of the sleepers The Girl Next Door and Let’s Be Cops, has made a deal at DreamWorks to direct Destiny, a script he’s co-writing with Dana Stevens, who most recently scripted The Dive for producer James Cameron, director Francis Lawrence and Jennifer Lawrence. Greenfield has a few…

EXCLUSIVE: After directing Fox’s Let’s Be Cops to a $122 million worldwide take, Luke Greenfield is setting up original sci-fier Slingshot at Gulfstream Pictures. Deal comes as Greenfield signs with Paradigm. The filmmaker is in negotiations to develop, produce, and direct the Amblin-esque story he conceived of with…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Greenfield, who wrote, produced and directed the Fox sleeper Let’s Be Cops, is back in business with the studio for his next film. He’s made a deal to direct and produce an untitled suspense thriller that, like his recent outing, depicts normal people using a loophole to empower themselves to live…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY 1:36 PM: Actuals are in and not only was this past weekend sans a single new studio wide release and the lowest-grossing frame of 2014 with $64.7M according to Rentrak, but it also was the second-lowest post-Labor Day frame since 2000’s $60.86M total. While the post-holiday frame is known to be a…

Following peaceful protests over the shooting death of an unarmed teen which later resulted in looting of business in the area, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon imposed a curfew for city of Ferguson tonight. “We cannot allow the ill will of the few to undermine the good will of the many and continue to put the people and…

The second weekend of Paramount’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will likely take the No. 1 spot this box office weekend which is crammed with titles competing for audiences. Turtles and Guardians of the Galaxy will both be vying for the kids market as everyone heads back to school. There is still expected to be about…

UPDATED, Thursday, 7:50 AM: Let’s Be Cops had an estimated first day showing of around $3.95M yesterday on 2,936 runs to bring its total first-day cume (with $1.2M late nights) to around $5.2M as it heads into its three-day weekend. It will face stiff competition with the holdover Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the…

It wasn’t an A-list star or surprise announcement that scored the biggest reaction during Fox‘s mammoth Comic-Con panel — it was rapper Biz Markie, who joined producer Guillermo del Toro‘s Book Of Life gang onstage belting his 1989 anthem “Just A Friend” in a moment of random pop-culture mishmash. The song is covered…

When a couple of slacker buddies need a costume party plan, they come up with the fine idea of going faux Five-O. So Damon Wayans Jr and Jake Johnson don their LAPD uniforms, and people think they’re the real thing. Our heroes soon experience the respect (and women and drugs and such) that comes with it. They take the…

20th Century Fox has dropped a new trailer for action comedy Let’s Be Cops. It follows the red band version that debuted last month. Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson star as buddies who pretend to be officers of the law — then find themselves in over their head with mobsters and dirty detectives. Cast also includes…

Damon Wayans Jr. and Jake Johnson star as buddies who pretend to be officers of the law — then find themselves in over their head with mobsters and dirty detectives — in 20th Century Fox’s Let’s Be Cops. Luke Greenfield co-wrote the script with Nicholas Thomas and directs the summer comedy, which hits theaters August…

EXCLUSIVE: After completing production on his buddy comedy script Let’s Be Cops, Fox has made a mid-six figure deal for an untitled pitch by Nick Thomas. The project will be produced by Genre Films’ Simon Kinberg and Aditya Sood, who with director Luke Greenfield produced Let’s Be Cops. Greenfield wrote that buddy…