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Wednesday, July 5th FINAL: This past weekend associated with the Independence Day drew $169.7M, -11% from a year ago and ranked as the seventh highest for the holiday. The last time we saw a July 4th weekend that cracked past $200M was five years ago ($230M actually) when Despicable Me 2 benefited from the holiday…

When a studio declines to show a movie for critics in advance these days, you probably can be assured they know it won’t be getting rave reviews. In the case of the new comedy The House, which opened over the weekend sans any critics screenings, that turned out to be true. The audience also seemed to smell a…

Opening up critically acclaimed horror movies at the box office? That's easy. But as far as comedies go, that’s hard. This weekend Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler hit career box office lows as New Line/Village Roadshow/Warner Bros' $40M-budgeted The House burned down with a $8.7M opening (figures as of Monday morning)…

After its setback with The Mummy earlier this month, Universal will get the studio and the overall domestic box office back on track this weekend with Despicable Me 3, the latest in its beloved Illumination Entertainment franchise, which opens at 4,529 venues in the U.S. and Canada. Unlike last week, when it was Transf…

New Line Cinema has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming comedy The House starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. It drops the same day as the Warner Bros label preps to launch its newest pic Fist Fight in theaters beginning tonight. In The House, directed and co-written by Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates and Neighbor…

Warner Bros. has announced three release date changes. Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick will play a week later moving from Oct. 7 to Oct. 14. The previous weekend was a cutthroat one for serious adult fare with Universal/DreamWorks’ feature bestseller adaptation The Girl on the Tra…

Hours after it announced a new date for Me Before You, Warner Bros has unveiled more schedule changes. Todd Phillips’ action comedy Arms & The Dudes moves from March 11 to August 19; the Will Ferrell-Amy Poehler New Line comedy The House is now scheduled to bow on June 2, 2017; and the sequel Project XX has been taken…

Children’s Hospital‘s Rob Huebel is about to add illegal gambling to his CV, as he’s joined the cast of the untitled Will Ferrell/Amy Poehler Comedy formerly known as The House. Set to begin filming this week in Los Angeles, the film follows a pair of parents who accidentally spend all the money they’d saved for their…

Ryan Simpkins is moving into the upcoming comedy The House, also starring with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. The film is about a pair of cash strapped parents who accidentally blow the money intended to pay for their daughter’s college tuition. In desperation, they open an underground casino in their suburb and…

Amy Poehler continues to move on with life after Pawnee by betting on fellow SNL alum Will Ferrell and The House. She is in negotiations to star with him in the pic about a couple who blow their daughter's college fund and start a casino in their suburban basement to win back the money – and their kid's respect…

EXCLUSIVE: A heated auction has ended with New Line acquiring The House, a comic script by Brendan O’Brien and Andrew J. Cohen, the team best known for the hit Neighbors. Cohen will direct the film and Will Ferrell will star. This is much bigger than the average spec script deal, because the title reflects what New…