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In just its opening weekend, Kevin Hart‘s third concert film already has beaten both the box-office debut of his previous stand-up film, 2013’s Let Me Explain, as well as the overall haul from his first such effort, 2011’s Laugh at My Pain. What Now? Indeed. With $12.6 million and counting …
Gabriel Iglesias has featured his voice and face in multiple motion pictures over the past couple of years — Magic Mike and its sequel, Magic Mike XXL, now filming, plus Planes, The Nut Job and A Haunted House 2. But Fluffy didn’t expect to see himself on the big screen playing …
Twitter may have given everyone the false hope or impression that they’re all joke machines. But nobody remains funnier and writes more great jokes and tests them out on a nightly basis in front of living and breathing comedy club customers than Dave Attell. Nobody beats Attell. And Attell wins …
The next stand-up comedian to hit the big-screen big time is Gabriel Iglesias. Open Road Films announced today it will distribute Gulfstream Pictures’ The Fluffy Movie — a stand-up comedy concert film starring Iglesias — in cinemas nationwide on July 11, 2014. Iglesias exclaimed on Twitter @fluffyguy: “ITS OFFICIAL, “THE …
In case you didn’t stay up past your bedtime and the end of Saturday Night Live for the half-hour “concert” by Arcade Fire, then you missed out on a mini-movie directed by Roman Coppola and featuring several comedians that may have left you with the thought that “Here Comes The …
Sinbad sees what Kevin Hart’s stand-up concert films have done at the box-office in the past two years, and he’d like to be in the new wave of stand-up specials to be special enough to be seen on the big screen. Too soon? Too cute? Regardless, it’s happening as sure …
There’s more than a little bit of myth-building going on right from the start of Kevin Hart’s newest stand-up comedy concert film. But when you open with $17.4 million at the box office over the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, who will argue when what’s mythic suddenly appears to …
