5th UPDATE/Writethru Sunday AM: Refresh for chart and more updates An over-saturated kids franchise pic, an overdone action star, and a low budget horror film aren’t really creating a stampede at theaters this weekend. We’re hearing that it’s the lowest post-Super Bowl weekend in ten years. That’s how much overall…
Exhibitors can rest easy knowing that moviegoing will return to some sort of normalcy this weekend after that dreadful $73.4M Super Bowl period; the lowest 3-day since the final weekend of August 2017. After the Big Game and Universal/BVI/Blumhouse’s Glass scared away a number of major studios from competing, the…
Warner Bros’ The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part hit tracking today with a robust $45 million-$55 million opening. The sequel to the surprise 2014 movie opens February 8.
We hear that Lego Movie 2 literally just locked its print, and that Warners is prepping a great screening program for the movie prior to its…
Don’t let the holidays keep you from enjoying a bawdy good Red Band not-safe-for-work trailer: Paramount today released a new one for What Men Want, director Adam Shankman’s gender-switched re-do, starring Taraji P. Henson, of Nancy Meyers' 2000 romantic comedy What Women Want.
Henson, of course, takes the Mel Gibson…
Paramount has moved the release of its Taraji P. Henson comedy What Men Want from mid-January to February 8, to better capitalize on pre-Valentine’s Day business at the box office.
The gender-switching remake of Nancy Meyers' 2000 romantic comedy What Women Want stars Henson in the Mel Gibson role. She plays Ali…
Looking into the minds of men could provide enough darkness for any number of horror films, but Adam Shankman’s What Men Want starring Taraji P. Henson goes for the laughs.
In this remake of Nancy Meyers’ 2000 romantic comedy What Women Want, Henson takes the Mel Gibson role as Ali Davis, a successful sports agent who…
Up-and-comer Shane Paul McGhie is set to play Jamal in Paramount Players’s What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson as a sports agent in a male-dominated space, who when she gains the power to hear men's thoughts and is able to shift the paradigm to her advantage as she races to sign the NBA's next superstar. Cut to…
EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Robinson, one half of HBO’s Two Dope Queens, is set to play Ciarra in What Men Want, the Taraji P Henson-toplined gender-swamping redo of the 2000 comedy starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The pic, from Paramount Players, is being directed by Adam Shankman. Tracy Morgan, Aldis Hodge, Wendi…
Jason Jones has come aboard Paramount Player’s Taraji P. Henson-led comedy, What Men Want, based on Nancy Meyers 2000 rom-com, What Women Want, with Mel Gibson. This Adam Shankman-directed gender-flipped version centers around a female sports agent (Henson) who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. She…
Ian Lake has joined Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, Gary Cole, Kathy Baker, Ryan Keira Armstrong and Martin Donovan in the film adaptation of Garth Stein’s bestselling novel, The Art Of Racing In The Rain, from Fox 2000. It’s the story of aspiring race car driver Denny (Ventimiglia) and the loves of his life – his…
Max Greenfield going from hanging with the New Girl to getting his mind read by Taraji P. Henson in the upcoming comedy What Men Want.
Directed by Adam Shankman, What Men Want is a twist on Paramount’s Nancy Meyers-directed rom-com classic What Women Want from 2000 in which Mel Gibson played a guy who could hear…
Taraji P. Henson showed up without a clip for her Jan. 11, 2019 comedy What Men Want but that’s because the movie starts shooting tomorrow. Instead she brought a great routine.
The pic is a twist on the Mel Gibson Paramount classic What Women Want in which he played a guy who could hear women’s thoughts. Henson plays…
