BoxOffice® Pro - November 2011

BY SARA VIZCARRONDO
COMING SOON
TOWER HEIST
GRAND LARCENY AT THE MOVIES
DISTRIBUTOR Universal CAST Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Tea
Leoni, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, Judd
Hirsch, Michael Pena, Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe, Scottie
Knollin DIRECTOR Brett Ratner SCREENWRITERS Ted Griffin,
Jeff Nathanson PRODUCERS Eddie Murphy, Brian Grazer
GENRE Action Comedy RATING PG13 for language and
sexual content RUNNING TIME TBD RELEASE DATE November
4, 2011
Brett Ratner has been the most marketable
name in low-brow, action comedy since
1998’s Rush Hour and in this heist film he
takes up some oh-so-slight class issues. Ben
Stiller plays the building manager of Arthur
Shaw’s (Alan
Alda) high
rent apartment
complex.
When
Stiller learns
Alda’s pulled
one over on
his entire
staff with a
Ponzi scheme,
he leads the
employees
in a hostile
takeover to
retrieve their
lost wages. Incompetence and anxiety run
high until they hire an ex-con (Eddie Murphy)
to “show them the ropes.” God willing
those ropes don’t break.
A VERY HAROLD &
KUMAR 3-D CHRISTMAS
IS THAT COAL IN YOUR STOCKING,
OR … ?
DISTRIBUTOR Warner Bros. CAST Kal Penn, John Cho and
Neil Patrick Harris DIRECTOR Todd Strauss-Schulson
SCREENWRITERS Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg PRODUCERS
Greg Shapiro GENRE Comedy RATING R for strong crude
and sexual content, graphic nudity, pervasive language,
drug use and some violence RUNNING TIME TBD RELEASE DATE
November 4, 2011
If you’re sick of wholesomeness this holiday
season, this is your bad-taste antidote. The
bong-boys are all grown up (well, mostly
grown up), but then Harold accidentally
shoots Santa. With Neil Patrick Harris turning
every holiday gag into a dirty joke, the
boys feel justified ignoring their responsibility
to “save” Christmas. Jesus makes an
appearance as a trust-fund baby/night club
manager. Wonder how they’re going to
broach the subject of his birthday?
KILLING BONO
THE EDGE OF MURDER
DISTRIBUTOR Arc Entertainment CAST Ben Barnes, Robert
Sheehan, Pete Postlethwaite, Justine Waddell, Krysten
Ritter DIRECTOR Nick Hamm SCREENWRITERS Dick Clement,
Ian La Frenais, Simon Maxwell PRODUCERS Mark Huffam,
Ian Flooks, Piers Tempest GENRE Comedy RATING R for
pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use
RUNNING TIME 114 min. RELEASE DATE November 4, 2011 ltd.
Based loosely on the true-ish book Killing
Bono: I was Bono’s Doppelganger, this Irish
comedy has one boot on a busted amp
and the other in the screen. Two brothers
wrangle their friends to start a band they
call SHOOK-UP and as they’re hitting it
big-ish in Dublin another tiny band called
U2 starts making headlines. Instantaneously
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