Posted on 08/25/2018 1:27:20 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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Which brings us to STX Entertainment’s raunchy, R-rated Melissa McCarthy-puppet comedy, The Happytime Murders, which is dead and wrapped in plastic with a $10.2M start, repping the Groundling alum’s lowest wide opening ever for one of her solo films – not counting St. Vincent, which was a platform release. Happytime Murders’ opening is even lower than McCarthy’s May PG-13 title Life of the Party ($17.9M), which we thought was rock bottom.
For the most part, raunchy comedies in the wake of STX’s own Bad Moms and Sony/Annapurna’s Sausage Party two summers ago just continue to bomb or remain stifled at the domestic box office. We’ve often blamed streaming for encroaching on the genre and stealing away such talent like Adam Sandler. However, distributors remain hopeful that laughter will rise again. Just look at how Crazy Rich Asians rebooted the romantic comedy. Comedy is generational, built on stars, and some believe that the depression for the R-rated titles is attributable to the fact that we’re between generations now. Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, and Adam Sandler have grown up, and the younger audience has yet to dial into a new fresh batch of talent. Next year, The Hangover turns 10. If there’s hope left this year, it’s in Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, who have Night School opening on Sept. 28.
But rather than blame the raunchy comedy B.O. recession, there seems to be a missed opportunity here with The Happytime Murders by both STX and McCarthy. Out of all the comedies this year, this one looked fresh, and quite different for McCarthy. But the movie was never propped up as a summer comedy event by STX for reasons we’ll explain soon.
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thanx. 50 years reading about movies and didn’t know.
Use to sing the Kars for Kids jingle to my dogs everytime it came on the van radio during deliveries.
Imitating the kid portion and the adult one. https://youtu.be/ybJ6fS7ruuo
Jim Henson’s kid is behind this movie. Hollywood is really sick.
LOL. Yeah what talent? :P
Well you should know that the kids you might
be supporting are not impoverished or like sick kids
at St Jude or Shriners hospitals but ultra-Orthodox Jewish
kids who are in “danger” of living in the 21st century exposed to
other religions or the outside world-a huge scam that should
Have been shut down long ago
Robin Williams, great actor, lousy comedian. was never funny
Interesting.
I see Wiki has a page on them including a section on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kars4Kids#Disclosure_and_effectiveness_concerns
I have no complaints about their mission but it should be made transparent where the funds are going.
Of course, each of us has a personal responsibility do some research before donating to any organization.
Those Ferengi should be in jail fraud. People need to be more careful as to whom they donate.
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