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Matty Simmons, a founder of the Diners Club credit card and Weight Watchers magazine who found his highest-profile success after co-founding National Lampoon magazine and producing film offshoots including Animal House and the Vacation franchise, died Wednesday in Los Angeles following a brief, non-coronavirus-related…

Producers Ken Davenport and Kurt Deutsch are eyeing a Broadway musical version of the hit film franchise Vacation. The pair have optioned the musical rights to the franchise’s characters by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures to develop a new musical Broadway Vacation. "Both Kurt and I came of age…

7TH UPDATE, Monday 2:58PM – Final weekend actuals: Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation arrived closer to the industry’s estimates yesterday morning with $55.5M, still a gross that’s considered a comeback for both Tom Cruise and the M:I franchise. The sequel, according to distrib experts, is…

The Griswolds have started their latest trip to Walley World slower than expected. Warner Bros./New Line’s Vacation made $3.805M in its opening Wednesday, which includes Tuesday night previews of $1.2M. Despite the low number, it was the top film on Wednesday. Current weekend estimates now see a five-day in the…

Warner Bros./New Line’s updated sequel Vacation started its weekend journey last night at 7 PM, gassing up $1.2M. The film, which follows Clark Griswold’s son, Rusty, in his return to Walley World, opens 32 years to the day after the 1983 original Chevy Chase film National Lampoon’s Vacation.  On the lower end of…

Time to hit that “holiday road” again with the Griswolds as Warner Bros and New Line Cinema have rebooted the highly successful ’80s comedy franchise Vacation, and as I say in my video review (click the link above) that is a very good thing. The new Vacation is decidedly NOT your father’s version which starred Chevy…

After a fast rise up the comedy writing ranks, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein make their directorial debut on the sequel to Vacation. And they can finally admit they’ll write the new iteration of Spider-Man for Sony and producers Amy Pascal and Marvel’s Kevin Feige. DEADLINE: The web is on fire today with all…

After finishing one weekend at the box office, it’s starting all over again tomorrow night when Warner Bros. previews New Line’s reboot of Vacation at 7 PM. By Friday, Paramount-Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation will be in the mix with a target at No. 1. Originally scheduled to bow at Christmas, where its…

New Line just released a red band trailer for Vacation, the reboot of the 1983 comedy that Harold Ramis directed from a John Hughes script. That’s a tall order to top but an opportunity to rediscover the Griswolds and the Walley World theme park. How does Ed Helms compare to Chevy Chase and Christina Applegate to…

Warner Bros said today it will release its reboot of New Line’s Vacation on Wednesday, July 29, two days earlier than planned. That’s the same date the first film in the franchise, National Lampoon‘s Vacation, bowed in 1983. The comedy now gets a jump on its weekend competition led by Paramount's Tom Cruise sequel Miss…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has just signed Ed Helms, one of the strong names on the client lists of Jason Heyman and Martin Lesak, who were chief among the five comedy department brain trust agents who left CAA yesterday and joined UTA. Helms, star of The Office, The Hangover and We’re The Millers, next stars in the rebooted Vacat…

Warner Bros/New Line has just announced that its reboot of Vacation starring Ed Helms as Clark Griswold’s grown-up son Rusty is moving off its October 9 release date and into the busy July 31 frame. That’s a fierce weekend: Vacation will go up against three other wide entries led by Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ro…