Insights from the Cinematic World: _Comedy

Little

The idea of black girl magic is both literal and metaphorical in Little, and the concept eventually expanded to every area of the film’s production.

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Trolls

From the creators of Shrek comes DreamWorks Animation’s TROLLS, a smart, funny and irreverent comedy about the search for happiness, and just how far some will go to get it. TROLLS features a stellar cast, including Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Russell Brand

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Dirty 30 producer Michael Goldfine, who has now made four movies featuring stars born and bred on social media, thinks that Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart relationship with their fans makes them particularly committed to the projects they take on.

Dirty 30

Online comedy superstars Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig, and Hannah Hart — AKA the “Holy Trinity of YouTube” — bring their signature irreverence to the big screen for a raucous and hilarious birthday celebration in Dirty 30.

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Florence Foster Jenkins

Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant team up for the first time on Florence Foster Jenkins , an inspirational, poignant, heart – warming comedy about love, music and the pursuit of dreams.

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Bad Moms

BAD MOMS, the new comedy written and directed by JON LUCAS and SCOTT MOORE, is set in an upscale Chicago suburb where chic supermom Gwendolyn James is the arbiter of acceptable behavior. Other moms know not to cross her, and Amy Mitchell certainly never meant to.

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Ice Age: Collision Course

Propelling audiences to new environments, like the cosmos and a crystallized world known as Geotopia, this is the defining chapter in the Ice Age “chillogy,” with many of the characters beginning new journeys.

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Ghostbusters

Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth.

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The Secret Life of Pets

For their fifth fully animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present The Secret Life of Pets, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.

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The real Mike and Dave even visited the Hawaiian filming location during production. They made an indelible impression on the cast and filmmakers - and vice versa.

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Hard-partying brothers place an online ad to find the perfect dates for their sister’s Hawaiian wedding. Hoping for a wild getaway, the boys instead find themselves outsmarted and out-partied by the uncontrollable duo.

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Central Intelligence

Pairing Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart as unlikely former high school friends, and even unlikelier spy-busting, world-saving, accidental partners on the run, director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s “Central Intelligence” offers a fun and fast-paced mash-up of comedy and explosive action.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all.

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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Returning stars Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne are joined by Chloë Grace Moretz for Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, the follow-up to 2014’s most popular original comedy.

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