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Mrs. Doubtfirestar Matthew Lawrence hopes to bring Robin Williams' iconic voice back through artificial intelligence. The actor played Chris Hillard in the 1993 comedy-drama film.

Lawerence discussed the possibility of reviving the late comedy legend's "iconic" voice via generative AI during a recent interview at San Diego Comic-Con. "I would love - now, obviously, with the respect and with the ok from his family - but I would love to do something really special with his voice because I know for a generation, that voice is just so iconic," he said via Deadline. "It's not just the fact that I knew him and worked with him and so it’s in my head - it's in everybody’s head. And it would be so cool."

Lawrence explained that he began to consider the idea after re-watching an old commercial that featured a somewhat robotic Williams voiceover. "It's kinda like this very contemporary,...

On August 6, 2003, Buena Vista unveiled Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, in theaters. The comedy went on to gross $160 million globally and get a sequel two decades later. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:

For an old warhorse, Freaky Friday looks darn cute. Disney made the original film, based on Mary Rodgers’ novel, in 1977. It starred Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as a mom and daughter who magically switch bodies and must go through a day in each other’s skin. The property was remade for TV in 1995 and, in reality, the concept stretches from 1948’s Vice Versa to 1988’s Big. Thanks to a script by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, the new Freaky plays the obvious gags in ways both surprising and imaginative. And Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan appear to be having a blast playing each other’s characters for more than half the film.

Known to many as the face of the Scary Movie franchise, Anna Faris has had a wonderful career, mostly within the realm of comedy. From The Hot Chick to recently being reported as part of the voice cast of the upcoming Toy Story 5, Faris has a filmography packed with highlights. One of her more forgotten efforts, however, came in the 2018 romantic comedy Overboard, which she starred in alongside Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez, John Hannah, Swoosie Kurtz, and Mel Rodriguez.

Released to little fanfare, the film failed to capture the hearts and minds of critics and audiences, as evidenced by a disappointing 24% from critics and 54% from general audiences on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Written by Leslie Dixon, Bob Fisher, and Rob Greenberg, with the latter also directing the movie, which stands as his only directorial effort to date, Overboard follows working-class single mother Kate's (Faris) frustration at being fired by a selfish yacht owner,...

One of Bradley Cooper's most beloved movies is heading to a new streaming home.

2011's Limitlessis officially set to join the Paramount+ streaming library. The fan-favorite thriller will be available to stream on Paramount+ beginning July 1, although fans will have to search elsewhere to stream the film's follow-up series of the same name.

Directed by Neil Burger from a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, which itself was based on Alan Glynn's 2011 novel titled The Dark Fields, Limitless starred Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a struggling author whose life in New York City is upset by a series of personal and professional downfalls, including being dumped by his girlfriend, Lindy. When Eddie is given a sample of a new nootropic drug called Nzt-48, Eddie discovers that it gives him access to perfect recall, enhanced intelligence, and a generally supercharged state of mind. While this helps turn Eddie's life around, it...

As his former character, James Bond, is still in the process of being redesigned and recast for modern audiences, Pierce Brosnan continues to delight audiences with new and exciting roles. His latest is the TV series MobLand, and although Bond is still his most important character, Brosnan also looks back on others that helped shoot him to stardom during his prime in the 1990s. One of these was playing Thomas Crown in The Thomas Crown Affair, the 1999 romantic heist movie that Amazon Studios is now in the process of remaking with Michael B. Jordanas the lead.

Brosnan has now addressed the remake while speaking to GQ about MobLand, in which he co-stars with Tom Hardy and Helen Mirren. During the interview, Brosnan was asked about the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair and whether he approves of Jordan's casting as the roguish billionaire who likes to steal valuable artwork. The...

35 years after the release of the original film, the Look Who's Talking movie series might soon be revived. Amy Heckerling, who directed the original film that spawned the franchise, is looking to go full-circle with her career by making a new Look Who's Talking film.

Heckerling spoke about her desire to make a fourth Look Who's Talking movie during a recent interview with Empire. The filmmaker shared that she's currently working on a new screenplay for a fourth Look Who's Talking movie, though she admits that there's no guarantee at this stage that it will get greenlit. She also commented on how she's co-writinng the script with her daughter, Mollie, who just so happened to be the inspiration behind the original film released in 1989.

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Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up on why it took so long to make a sequel to 2003’s Freaky Friday. Per People, Curtis took to the Today show, where she was promoting her upcoming movies, The Last Showgirl and The Sticky, to clear up why the movie’s sequel, Freakier Friday, took 22 years to come to fruition.

“We couldn’t have made this movie until now, because Lindsay (Lohan) had to be old enough to have a 15-year-old,” Curtis said. In 2025’s Freakier Friday, Lohan, who is now 38, will reprise her role as Anna Coleman from Freaky Friday, but now, her character is also a mom - to her own daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter.

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Tomorrow may never die, but for the cast and crew of Bond #18, it was like every day would never end. Hit with constant script rewrites, testy stars, filming locations pulled at the last second, and a seemingly impossible release target, Tomorrow Never Dies felt like it was panning out to be the sophomore slump that neither Pierce Brosnan nor the 007 franchise needed. And yet, it actually turned into a pretty damn good movie…decades after its release, that is. Appreciated and more relevant now than ever, Tomorrow Never Dies may not have lived up to standards in 1997, but is today considered a key entry in the Brosnan era. So what went on behind the scenes, and how exactly did it get there? Let’s shake it up as we find out: What Happened to This Movie?!

Tomorrow Never Dies was greenlit before the previous Bond installment, 1995’s GoldenEye, even hit theaters.

Creed’s Michael B Jordan will direct and star in a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, and here are the details.

Since his star making performance in Ryan Coogler’s 2013 drama Fruitvale Station, Michael B. Jordan has taken on an eclectic range of films. He’s gone from starring opposite Chadwick Boseman in Marvel’s Black Panther to headlining Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky sequel Creed trilogy, making his directorial debut with 2023’s Creed 3. A fourth Creed film is reportedly in development.

According to Deadline, Jordan has closed a deal with Amazon MGM Studios and Outlier Society to direct and star in a remake of classic thriller The Thomas Crown Affair – this would be the third take on the material, with the first emerging in 1968.

Drew Pearce has written the remake’s script, rewriting a previous draft by Wes Tooke and Justin Britt-Gibson, which is based on the original film.

Freaky Friday's Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan were among the guests at D23. The duo made a surprise appearance and unveiled the sequel's title, as well as some exciting details about what's to come.

Freaky Friday is now considered a cult classic. Released in 2003 and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as a mother-daughter who are forced to live each other's lives, Disney announced a new sequel in 2023. During the Walt Disney Studios presentation at D23, they also released the first look at the upcoming sequel.

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Jamie Lee Curtis provides new details about Freaky Friday 2 and reveals how she helped get the long-awaited sequel greenlit at Disney.

The upcoming Freaky Friday sequel will be officially titled Freakier Friday, and confirmed the release window for 2025. It feels like no time has passed, Curtis told the audience.

"Overboard" features one of the weirdest cinematic romances of the '80s, but is the story about a man (Kurt Russell) convincing an amnesiac socialite (Goldie Hawn) that she's actually his put-upon wife too strange to be true, or just stranger than fiction? In a retrospective interview with screenwriter Leslie Dixon in 2017, Vanity Fair dropped a surprising, rare piece of movie trivia about the Garry Marshall film: it's apparently based on a true story.

According to the piece, Dixon was commissioned to write the film "based on a real incident in which a woman with amnesia washed ashore in Florida." Believe it or not, this detail seems to have rarely if ever been shared publicly until the film's 30 year anniversary; it doesn't show up in any of the original reviews or coverage of the film available online, nor in any references in available books mentioning the movie. We can safely...

Freaky Friday sequel reunites Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, with original cast returning. Plot details reveal a multigenerational twist, focusing on Tess and Anna's challenges merging two families. The sequel is set for a theatrical release in 2025, not on Disney+.

It may have taken 21 years, but Freaky Friday is finally getting a sequel, and filming has commenced on the follow-up that will reunite Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. However, the treats won't stop there for fans because every significant player from the 2003 original film is returning for Freaky Friday 2 and Disney has also released plot details for the film.

Freaky Friday (2003) PGComedyFamilyFantasy Release Date August 5, 2003Director Mark WatersCast Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen TobolowskyRuntime 97Main Genre ComedyWriters Mary Rodgers, Heather Hach, Leslie DixonStudio Walt Disney PicturesTagline Every teenager's nightmare... turning into her mother. Get your freak on.Website http://www.

Mrs. Doubtfire actors Mara Wilson, Lisa Jakub, and Matthew Lawrence have reunited after last appearing on screen together 31 years ago as siblings in the iconic movie. 1993's Mrs. Doubtfire starred the incomparable Robin Williams and became that year's second-highest-grossing film, making north of $400 million worldwide.

Wilson posted a picture of the trio on Instagram, "So funny that the same week I went to San Francisco, I got to reunite with my 'Doubtfire' siblings! It's always a joy to see Lisa Jakub and Matthew Lawrence," she commented. According to Jakub, they had so much fun hanging out together, explaining that her co-stars still feel like her siblings three decades after filming Mrs Doubtfire. Wilson, Jakub, and Lawrence starred as the Hillard siblings, 14-year-old Lydia, 12-year-old Chris, and 5-year-old Natalie, the children of Williams and Sally Field's characters in the comedy-drama classic.

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Freaky Friday 2 is moving forward at Disney.

Per THR, it has been reported that Freaky Friday 2 is planned to move ahead with production with the goal of filming starting as early as this summer in Los Angeles. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in negotiations to reprise their roles from the 2003 film, and this follows the two lobbying for the sequel for years. Also revealed is the director for the project, as Nisha Ganatra (Hulu's Welcome to Chippendales) has been tapped to direct. After serving as a producer on the 2003 film, Andrew Gunn is back on board to produce the upcoming sequel. Kristin Burr, a former Disney exec, is also producing. It wasn't stated who will write the script for the new film.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's admiration for a classic children's Disney live-action film has come to light.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, director Mark Waters, producer Andrew Gunn, and actors Chad Michael Murray, Lucille Soong, Ryan Malgarini, Rosalind Chao, and Christina Vidal talked about 2003's body-swapping fantasy comedy, Freaky Friday, which had its 20th anniversary on Aug. 6. During the conversation, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's love for the movie was also revealed, as the Oscar-winning filmmaker said as much to Waters.

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Late last year, Jamie Lee Curtis reportedly was interested in revisiting the 2003 body swap comedy remake she had made with then-rising star Lindsay Lohan, Freaky Friday. The Hollywood Reporter has now confirmed that it is officially in the works at the House of Mouse. Now that Disney is finding opportunities to reboot or give sequels to nostalgic projects thanks to Disney+ with projects like The Mighty Ducks series and the Hocus Pocus sequel, and hot off of Jamie Lee Curtis’ Oscar win, it seemed like a perfect time to cash in on a follow-up.

In the 2003 remake, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan played a mother and daughter who were constantly at odds with each other. A time came when they simultaneously wished the other could experience life in their shoes when magic fortune cookies made it come true. The next morning, they wake up in each other’s bodies.

A Freaky Friday sequel is officially in the works at Disney with both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis set to return, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

No plot details for the film have been shared, but Elyse Hollander is writing the script. Released in 2003, Freaky Friday was already a remake; it originated as a Mary Rodgers novel in 1972, and its first film adaptation followed in 1976. But the Lohan-Curtis version — written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon and directed by Mark Waters — has become a fan favorite thanks to, among many other things, Lohan’s punky Anna, her band Pink Slip, and an incredible scene in which Curtis and Chad Michael Murray sing Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time.” It grossed over $160 million worldwide.

Lohan and Curtis have long been willing to reprise their roles in the film, which sees a mother and daughter switch bodies and learn to accept their differences.

Walt Disney Pictures is developing a sequel to its hit 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday.

As confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, a sequel to the 2003 iteration of Freaky Friday is currently in the works at Disney. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are attached to reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman, respectively. Elyse Hollander is attached to pen the script.

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(Freaky) Friday, Never Hesitate

Directed by Mark Waters from a script by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, the first Freaky Friday film starring Curtis and Lohan released in theaters in August 2003. It follows Tess Coleman (Curtis), the widowed mother of aspiring teenage musician Anna (Lohan) and her younger brother, Harry (Ryan Malgarini). Tess and Anna's fractious relationship comes to a head when they awake one day to discover they have magically switched bodies. They are forced to quite literally walk...

The 1993 Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire would not have become a classic comedy if the ending hadn’t stayed as unconventional as it is. Still a popular film for kids and families, Chris Columbus' comedy Mrs. Doubtfire tells the story of a family that changes as the parents get divorced, and how William’s character, recently single dad Daniel Hillard, goes to great lengths to see his children every day. The film’s ending goes against the expected Hollywood ending, which makes it stand out and gives the film more impact.

Based on the 1987 novel Alias Madame Doubtfire, the film was adapted for the screen only a few years after the novel’s release. Seeing as Mrs. Doubtfire is a Robin Williams comedy for families, the expected ending for the film would have been to reunite the split up parents in the film and bring the family back together. But...

Sharon Stone, Patricia Arquette, Sanaa Lathan, Warrington Hudlin, Delroy Lindo, Elijah Wood, Bryan Cranston, Andre Holland, Margaret Cho and Hari Nef will serve as jury members for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival.

Tribeca, running from June 9 to June 20, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

The jurors will select winning projects in the film, immersive, games and all-new podcasts competition sections. The fest has expanded to 14 competition categories.

“Storytellers rallying together, sharing their admiration and inspiring growth in one another;s work is one of the most inspiring parts of Tribeca,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises and the Tribeca Film Festival. “Our jury and incredible community of talented creators are coming back to gather in-person to surround their fellow artists with support.”

As previously announced, the festival will award the inaugural Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award to Stacey Abrams for her service and commitment to fighting against injustices.

Lindsay Lohan has picked up a lead role in a holiday movie at Netflix that is reminding some fans of the movie Overboard. Though she's had sporadic acting gigs in recent years, Lohan most often shows up as herself on various reality shows on television. A new tweet posted by Netflix on Monday has revealed that the next big project for the former child star will be as the lead in a holiday romantic comedy, though her co-star hasn't yet been named.

"Lindsay Lohan will star in a new romantic comedy about a newly engaged and spoiled hotel heiress who finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting total amnesia in a skiing accident," the Netflix tweet reads, including a selfie taken by Lohan.

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Well, poppets, Mrs. Doubtfire is the latest Broadway returnee: Producers of the musical adaptation announced today that the show will begin previews on Oct. 21 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with an official opening night on Dec. 5.

“I’m thrilled that the Mrs. Doubtfire company will reunite on Broadway this fall bringing their indomitable spirit and talent to this new production based on one of the most beloved films of all time,” said producer Kevin McCollum in a statement.

The musical, an adaptation by the Something Rotten! team of the 1993 Robin Williams movie with book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell and music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick, played just three previews performances in Spring 2020 before the industry-wide pandemic shutdown.

Mrs. Doubtfire is directed by Jerry Zaks, and stars Rob McClure in the title role. Tickets go on sale today.

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Mrs. Doubtfire has a sure date with Broadway and, as rumored, she’ll be arriving with Beetlejuice‘s Rob McClure in the title role, producers announced this morning.

The musical, directed by Jerry Zaks and based on the 1993 Robin Williams hit movie, will begin previews March 9, 2020, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, with an opening night set for Sunday, April 5..

The previously announced staging, produced by Kevin McCollum – a multiple Tony winner with credits including Avenue Q, Rent and In The Heights) – features a book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, with music and lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick.

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Nantucket, Mass. — Adventure drama “The Peanut Butter Falcon” and Syria documentary “For Sama” emerged as the top winners at the 24th annual Nantucket Film Festival.

The festival, which concludes today, as ever put the emphasis on screenwriters and emerging talents. Director Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Sundance hit “Brittany Runs a Marathon” had a number of well-received screenings, as did Gavin Hood’s “Official Secrets.” Documentaries that played at the island getaway off the coast of Massachusetts included “It Started As a Joke,” “David Crosby: Remember My Name” and “We Are the Radical Monarchs.”

The festival’s annual screenwriter tributes went to female forces in the comedy realm. Leslie Dixon, the seasoned scribe behind “Mrs. Doubtfire” and the musical rendition of “Hairspray,” was recognized, as were five former and current women from the “Saturday Night Live” orbit: Jane Curtin, writer Anne Beatts, Heidi Gardner, Sudi Green and Sarah Schneider.

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For most of her Hollywood career, writer-producer Leslie Dixon kept secret the fact that she hailed from art world nobility as the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and painter Maynard Dixon.

“For many, many years I never told anybody about this, because I didn’t want people to think I came from money, which I most certainly did not. But when your grandparents’ work was going at Sotheby’s for $1.5 million, people might get the wrong idea,” she says. “Certainly, I was never going to touch the hem of [Lange’s] garment. I mean, that ...

For most of her Hollywood career, writer-producer Leslie Dixon kept secret the fact that she hailed from art world nobility as the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and painter Maynard Dixon.

“For many, many years I never told anybody about this, because I didn’t want people to think I came from money, which I most certainly did not. But when your grandparents’ work was going at Sotheby’s for $1.5 million, people might get the wrong idea,” she says. “Certainly, I was never going to touch the hem of [Lange’s] garment. I mean, that ...

The Nantucket Film Festival on Wednesday announced an all-female slate of honorees and focus for its 2019 Screenwriters Tribute.

The fest will honor Saturday Night Live writers and performers Jane Curtin, Anne Beatts, Sudi Green and Sarah Schneider with the Creative Impact in Television Award, and writer-producer Leslie Dixon will receive the Screenwriters Tribute Award, which is given to a scribe whose writing has had a distinct impact on the landscape of cinema. The honors will be handed out June 22.

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The Nantucket Film Festival on Wednesday announced an all-female slate of honorees and focus for its 2019 Screenwriters Tribute.

The fest will honor Saturday Night Live writers and performers Jane Curtin, Anne Beatts, Sudi Green and Sarah Schneider with the Creative Impact in Television Award, and writer-producer Leslie Dixon will receive the Screenwriters Tribute Award, which is given to a scribe whose writing has had a distinct impact on the landscape of cinema. The honors will be handed out June 22.

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We still don’t have a title for “Bond 25,” but we’ve got a baddie (“Bohemian Rhapsody” Oscar winner Rami Malek), a Bond lady (Ana de Armas from “Blade Runner 2049”), and a premise for Cary Joji Fukunaga to direct. Obviously, it was less than what we were hoping for, as producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced the full cast during a live stream event Thursday from author Ian Fleming’s GoldenEye retreat in Jamaica (the spiritual home of the franchise where “Dr. No” and “Live and Let Die” were filmed).

Eschewing the usual Bond launch press conference, they were joined by James Bond star Daniel Craig and Fukunaga, who answered a few fan questions from Twitter. Meanwhile, Malek provided a quip via a video feed from New York about “making sure that Bond doesn’t have an easy ride.”

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When Lisa Jakub showed up to audition as the oldest daughter of Robin Williams and Sally Field in Mrs. Doubtfire, she was introduced to a matronly Scottish woman. Jakub thought she was talking to the mother of director Chris Columbus, who was in production on the movie that turned out to be an enduring classic comedy after opening Nov. 24, 1993.

“I remember being introduced to Chris Columbus’ mother and thinking I had to really make small talk and be charming because this was my boss’ mom,” said Jakub, who was 14 when she made the film. “I wanted to make a good impression. It wasn’t until later that I realized [it was Williams]. I totally fell for it.”

It didn’t take that long for Matthew Lawrence, then 12, to realize that something was going on. “I started to catch on because I was a working kid. But definitely for two or three minutes I was sitting next to Mrs. Doubtfire...

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Overboard focuses on Leonardo (Derbez), a selfish, spoiled, rich playboy from Mexico’s richest family and Kate (Farris), a working class single mom of three hired to clean Leonardo’s luxury yacht. After unjustly firing Kate and refusing to pay her, Leonardo falls overboard when partying too hard and wakes up on the Oregon coast with amnesia. Kate shows up at the hospital and, to get payback, convinces Leonardo he is her husband and puts him to work – for the first time in his life. At first miserable and inept, Leonardo slowly settles in. Eventually he earns the respect of his new “family” and co-workers. But, with Leonardo’s billionaire...

Bring the family together for the “heartwarming comedy” (Miami New Times) Overboard, arriving on Digital July 17 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand July 31 from Lionsgate.

Bring the family together for the “heartwarming comedy” (Miami New Times) Overboard, arriving on Digital July 17 and on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand July 31 from Lionsgate.

From Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures (MGM) and Pantelion Films, Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, and Golden Globe nominee Eva Longoria star in this hilarious fresh take on the iconic romantic comedy. Directed by three-time Primetime Emmy® award winner Rob Greenberg, who teamed up to write the screenplay with Bob Fisher and Leslie Dixon based on Dixon’s story, Overboard reverses the roles from the original film, featuring Derbez as a spoiled wealthy yacht owner who becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee played by Faris.

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Relativity Media founder Ryan Kavanaugh sued his former production president Adam Fields for $50 million on Thursday, claiming that Fields illegally leaked documents from a private arbitration that mistakenly paints Kavanaugh as a fraud.

The breach of contract suit says that Fields gave only selective parts of documents to a U.S. bankruptcy court this week in a larger effort to mislead the entertainment industry and public that Kavanaugh forged evidence of sexual harassment against Fields and used it as an excuse to fire him.

“The preparation, selection and attachment of the arbitration-related materials … was done for the improper purposes of distracting and deflecting attention from Fields’ history of improper conduct, especially in light of the #MeToo movement, and harming Kavanaugh,” according to the suit, which was obtained by TheWrap.

Representatives for Fields did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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“Avengers: Infinity War” crossed $1 billion worldwide Saturday, setting the record for the fastest film to reach that milestone.

The Disney-Marvel film will take in around $122 million this weekend from 4,474 North American locations, which, combined with its international total, will push it past the $1 billion mark. “Infinity War” is Marvel’s sixth film to reach that number, including the second most recent installment in the McU, “Black Panther.”

“Avengers: Infinity War’s” second weekend is coming in somewhat above earlier tracking forecasts, which had pegged it in the $115-million range. The superhero tentpole opened to $257.6 million last weekend, attaining the highest-grossing opening weekend of all time. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” had previously held the all-time domestic opening weekend with $247.9 million.

This weekend’s take will hand “Avengers: Infinity War” the second-highest second frame of all time, just behind “The Force Awakens” with $149.2 million.

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The second weekend of Disney-Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” is heading for $115 million at 4,474 North American sites, while the opening of “Overboard” will take in about $13 million, early estimates showed Friday.

Should the forecasts hold, “Avengers: Infinity War” will follow up its record-breaking debut with the second-highest domestic second weekend of all time behind only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” at $149.2 million. “Black Panther” currently has the second-highest total at $111.7 million, followed by “Jurassic World” at $106.5 million.

“Avengers: Infinity War” was pegged in the most recent domestic estimates to take in between $25 million and $32 million on Friday, its eighth day in theaters, and between $105 million and $125 million for the weekend. That will give the superhero mashup around $450 million in its first 10 days in North America.

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“Overboard” has opened with a moderate $675,000 at 1,400 North American locations on Thursday night.

“Overboard,” MGM and Lionsgate-Pantelion’s reboot of the 1987 comedy, is expanding on Friday to 1,623 sites, with forecasts in the $10 million to $13 million range. It will finish a distant second to the sophomore weekend of Disney-Marvel’s mega-hit “Avengers: Infinity War.”

“Overboard” is a gender-swapped remake of the Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell’s romantic comedy, in which Hawn played a spoiled heiress and Russell portrayed a blue-collar laborer. The new film reverses the roles with Derbez as a rich playboy who becomes amnesiac and Faris as a working mother who convinces him that she’s his wife. Rob Greenberg directed from a screenplay he wrote with Bob Fisher and Leslie Dixon.

Critics have been unimpressed, giving “Overboard” a current Rotten Tomatoes score of 28%. The film is a relatively low-risk project with a budget in the $12 million range.

To be filed under “not great but more charming than anyone might expect,” Rob Greenberg’s “Overboard” offers a bilingual, generally serviceable remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell comedy of the same name.

Reversing idea of the original — she’s a struggling single parent, he’s a spoiled playboy — Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez (“How to Be a Latin Lover”) lack the instant chemistry of their predecessors, but a game ensemble of supporting players bring the silly story to surprisingly vibrant life after stumbling awkwardly through a preposterous convergence of circumstances required for its premise to feel remotely believable.

Faris plays Kate, an Oregon widower preparing to be a nurse; she supports her three daughters by delivering pizzas and working for a cleaning service. Leonardo (Derbez), the irresponsible heir to a construction supply empire, lives out Hugh Hefner fantasies aboard his $60 million yacht while his sister Magdalena (Cecilia Suarez) tries to wrest control of the family business. After refusing to pay Kate for scrubbing his boat of evidence of his latest bacchanal, Leonardo falls overboard and washes up on the shores of her small seaside town with no memory of who he is or where (or how much money) he comes from.

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Frustrated at her ne’er-do-well brother, Magdalena pretends Leonardo is dead, leaving him in the hospital so she can claim their father’s company. Meanwhile, Kate discovers his plight when it’s reported in the local paper; she allows herself to be persuaded by best friend Theresa (Eva Longoria) to exact revenge on her pompous former employer by pretending Leonardo is her husband, enabling her to force him to cook, clean and tackle household chores while she’s busy studying.

With the help of her daughters and a community of friends and co-workers only too happy to lie for her, Kate convinces Leonardo to come home with her, and the two soon settle into an unexpectedly harmonious partnership as he begins to discover the meaning of real responsibility and to learn the value of a family bound together by love instead of money.

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Greenberg’s background is mostly in sitcoms (“Scrubs,” “How I Met Your Mother”), which may account for how broadly and clumsily the set-up portion of this story is handled. Without quite needing to consult actual reality, one might think that Greenberg and his co-screenwriter Bob Fisher (working from Leslie Dixon’s original concept) might have updated, or at least refined, some of the foundational ideas that were scarcely convincing three decades ago. In fact, acknowledging the previous movie as inspiration for the characters in this one might have been a better way to justify what sounds by any definition like a wildly inappropriate criminal act, even if Kate’s gaslighting of Leo feels vaguely like a subversive gesture in the #MeToo era.

The problem is that Kate is written far too appealingly, and Faris is just too loveable to pull off the kind of grand manipulation that might have turned this rom-com scenario into an act of political vengeance. Fundamentally — and I mean this as a compliment — Faris lacks the righteous anger required for this long-suffering blue-collar worker and single parent to perpetuate the kind of deception into which she settles so easily.

Similarly, Derbez throws himself into playing an insufferable prick in the first act, but it takes little more than a scene or two for him to recognize the challenges of manual laborers who use his company’s products and to begin to respect the efforts of the people who actually have to prepare food and clean up after themselves and others.

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That said, there is a truly magnetic couple in this film sidelined by all of this plot: Longoria’s Theresa and her husband Bobby, played by “Last Man on Earth” secret weapon Mel Rodriguez. Maybe it’s because they come to Kate’s aid so naturally, but they truly feel like a duo capable of the kind of manipulation required to yank a rich jerk out of his or her life and give him the kind of wake-up call to reality that would put him through ridiculous humiliating paces and make him grateful — and even fall in love — by the end of it.

Aside from casting the massively popular Mexican star Derbez, the movie additionally wears its multilingual intentions on its sleeve in multiple scenes where, delightfully, Leonardo’s family members speak to one another exclusively in subtitled Spanish, and later, his construction-worker colleagues make a few pointed jokes at the expense of the privileged white dudes who hire them to dig out their pools.

But even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, “Overboard” ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal.



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