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Weekend Box Office: MAN OF STEEL Soars to New June Record with $113 Million | Collider

A casual scan of this column would suggest that Man of Steel was the only movie playing this weekend, but This Is The End would beg to differ. The apocalyptic comedy from Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel opened on Wednesday with $7.8 million from 3,055 locations and went on to an estimated $20.5 million this weekend. The R-rated comedy received a warm response from critics (85% on Rotten Tomatoes) and has grossed almost $33 million in five days. That’s just over the reported budget for This Is The End, so WB is not the only happy studio this morning.
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Cool. Was hoping this would survive the onslaught.
 
Saw "This is the End" today. It was decent. Dragged for around 20 mins too long, but had some really funny jokes. Didn't think the Pineapple Express 2 stuff would be it in. I'd give it a 4/5.
 
Saw "The Heat" yesterday. Thought it was really good, but ran around 20 mins too long. Top contender for Comedy of the Year so far. 4.5/5.
 
Full Trailer For Filth Is Filled With Adjectives - Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

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Ok, this looks pretty great.
 
Review: 'The To Do List' Starring Aubrey Plaza, Bill Hader & Alia Shawkat | The Playlist

You may not realize until you're watching "The To Do List" how refreshing it is just to see this story told from the female perspective. The situations may be familiar but the voice feels fresh. Carey has said the film was based loosely on her experiences and though much of the film hums along very much in the mold of those other comedies, it also makes time for narrative detours that show the filmmaker is drawing from something other than just other movies. Though not as polished as some of the aforementioned touchstones of the sub-genre, the film nevertheless possesses a shaggy appeal that should help it connect with the audience it deserves.
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Movie Review: The To Do List -- Vulture

It’s a good thing The To Do List is so funny, because otherwise I wouldn’t know what to do with it. This raunchy, over-the-top high-school sex comedy told from the point of view of a girl features many of the same nasty/sexy, outrageously inappropriate things that such movies about boys have been peddling for decades. But simply by reversing the genders, writer-director Maggie Carey turns the tables on us: By proudly wearing its “otherness” (a word I use ironically) on its sleeve, The To Do List feels fresh and strange and wondrously new. It shouldn’t, but it does.
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HER Trailer. Spike Jonze’s HER Stars Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson | Collider

Warner Bros. has released the first trailer and poster for director Spike Jonze’s new film Her. The romance centers on a lonely writer (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his operating system. The film looks reminiscent of Jonze’s previous works: an outlandish premise that yields a joyous story tinged with sadness. I’m sure there will be Siri jokes galore, but to be fair, Siri would be a lot more endearing if it was smarter and sounded like Scarlett Johansson.
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Review: 'We're The Millers' Starring Jason Sudeikis & Jennifer Aniston | The Playlist

"We're The Millers" isn't really a bad movie, so much as its inoffensively and instantly forgettable. You will laugh here and there, but you probably won't laugh even more. It'll help pass a couple of hours, though there are probably better ways you could spend your time, and it somewhat half-hugs the R-rating just enough that with some careful edits and overdubs, you'll probably watch bits and pieces of this during the commercials of other, better shows and movies on cable forever. In "We're The Millers," David has to go all the way to Mexico to learn the true value of meaningful relationships with others, though the lesson you might learn in going to see the movie, is that even bothering to make the trip to your local multiplex for this probably isn't worth it. [C-]
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Patton Oswalt, Bob Odenkirk And Ian Roberts Join Genre Mash-Up 'Kitchen Sink' - Deadline.com

Sony Pictures is setting Patton Oswalt, Bob Oedenkirk and Ian Roberts to round out the cast of Kitchen Sink, the genre mash-up that stars Nicholas Braun, Mackenzie Davis, newcomer Josh Fadem, Joan Cusack Keegan-Michael Key, Ed Westwick, Vanessa Hudgens and Denis Leary. The pic, directed by Robbie Pickering from a script by Oren Uziel, is just getting underway in Los Angeles. Matt Tolmach is producing with Ron Schmidt and Jonah Hill exec producing.

The action takes place in Dilford, a place where vampires were at the top of the social order, zombies were at the bottom, and the humans were in the middle. This all goes awry and it’s a battle, and it’s up to three reps of those groups to restore harmony. Said Tolmach: “Kitchen Sink has all the chaos and carnage of a classic genre movie, but at its heart it’s a comedy about three kids just trying to survive the pain and awkwardness of high school, where every day feels apocalyptic.”
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