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Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
BIG PICTURE > GROWN UPS I’m a gigantic fan of comedy and all these people I’m working with, I’m just so thrilled by them that I think they get that sense that we’re here to go have fun. We’re goofi ng around on set, we’re having a great time— it’s a real familial atmosphere. But we help everybo...
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Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
BIG PICTURE > PROMOTION and acted in Benchwarmers and since then has done a bunch of things. A couple movies with me, this one now. He’s an example of how you break in. Funny is funny. He’s working on this movie with us as an actor and writer, so the squad keeps expanding. With YouTube, does ...
Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
GROWN UPS ✮ IF, LIKE FARMERS, EXHIBITORS WROTE AN ALMANAC, HERE ARE SOME TRUISMS THEY’D INCLUDE: MICHAEL BAY WILL BLOW SOMETHING UP, KIDS WILL FLOCK TO PIXAR, TEENS WILL TRY TO SNEAK INTO THE LATEST R-RATED HIT AND ADAM SANDLER WILL RELEASE A FILM THAT GROSSES OVER $100 MILLION ✮ THIS YEAR, ...
Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Photos: Tracy Bennett GO LONG Director Dennis Dugan on comedy, sports and his sixth time helming for Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions You started as an actor—how did that shape your directing? It definitely did. I had to learn how to shoot, how to hold a camera, editing, all of those ...
Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
BIG PICTURE > GROWN UPS THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES Rob Schneider on accents and activism By Amy Nicholson In Grown-Ups, you play Rob, one of five friends reuniting after years—which is basically the on-set truth as you’ve been friends with nearly everyone in the cast for decades. Yeah! ...
Can theaters— and studios— survive without film critics?
by Pete Hammond
Tags: At The Movies , Gene Siskel , Joel Siegel , Roger Ebert , The Leatherneck , The Today Show , Todd McCarthy , metacritic.com , rottentomatoes.com
seems to be that you can’t persuade people to go to a movie without quoting someone recommending it.” Maltin says the practice is so pervasive that when an ad or a DVD box doesn’t include a quote, he’s immediately suspicious that the movie must really be a dog. But how important are critics to...
Can theaters— and studios— survive without film critics?
by Pete Hammond
Tags: At The Movies , Gene Siskel , Joel Siegel , Roger Ebert , The Leatherneck , The Today Show , Todd McCarthy , metacritic.com , rottentomatoes.com
PETE HAMMOND Contributing Writer BOXOFFICE CAN THEATERS— AND STUDIOS— SURVIVE WITHOUT FILM CRITICS? No, and here’s why C ritics are dead. That’s the line we keep hearing as cost-cutting at newspapers claims the local movie critic, replaced by syndicated reviews or not at all. Me...
Grown Ups
Tags: Adam Sandler , Alec Guinness , Big Daddy , Chris Rock , Cinema Paradiso , Dave Matthews , David Spade , Dennis Dugan , Funny People , Gene Siskel , Grown Ups , Happy Gilmore , Jennifer Aniston , Just Go With It , Kelly Dugan , Kevin James , Lawrence of Arabia , Local Hero , Martin Lawrence , National Security , Nick Swardson , Nicole Kidman , Philadelphia Phillies , Rob Schneider , Roger Ebert , Salma Hayek , Strictly Ballroom , You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
on me, I guess. He’s a health nut with some anger issues. But that’s how Adam and Fred Wolf wrote him. Do you and David Spade ever lobby to get super hot wives? You’re always left out. It’s because Adam wrote it for himself! Of course he has himself married to Salma Hayek and me married to a 75...
