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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 --- 86 days ago http://moviesfilter.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!82ABAB9A2E2856FD!4868.entry
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With "Baby Mama" number one at the box office, it appears that yes indeed, a woman's comedy, and not a woman's picture necessarily, or rather, that dreaded term "chick flick" (which cover horomone replacement therapy classics like "Beaches," "Steel Magnolias," "Stepmom" and the "A Woman's Revenge: The Epstein Bar Story" -- OK I made the last one up...) can open big.
Women and Hollywood offer a nice write-up :
"Women went to the theatres this weekend and made the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy 'Baby Mama' $18.3 million this weekend. A whopping 68% of the audience was WOMEN so we proved women we are moviegoers and we can definitely open a movie. 55% of the audience was over 25 so that means that us older women (yes, Hollywood thinks you are old if you are over 25) attended the film.
"Members of my girl posse and I went to see the film and we enjoyed it. I still wish that Tina would have written it (the film was written and directed by SNL writer Michael McCullers) cause, at times, it felt that they were trying to hard to be funny. But Tina is awesome. (and if you don't watch 30 Rock on Thursdays on NBC, you are seriously missing something really funny.) The thing about Tina is that she's funny while being awkward and uncomfortable and unsure of herself which is the crux of her appeal. While the funny guys of Judd Apatow's comedies are pathetic schlubs that no girl would want to be with (but who always seem to get the girl), F ... |
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