Van Wilder was a good thing for National Lampoon. It was also a very bad thing for them. When the collegiate romp was released in 2002, expectations were modest. The movie had a budget of just $5M, Ryan Reynolds wasn’t yet a top-billed star, and, most damningly, the National Lampoon–branded film followed a string of flops by the once-revered nameplate: National Lampoon’s Senior Trip, National Lampoon’s Golf Punks, National Lampoon's Men In White. Creatively and financially, National Lampoon was on life support. Their movies sucked. Their bottom line was bleak. Their name was inconsequential. But ownership of the National Lampoon brand was in the process of changing hands around that time, which potentially brought hope of a new direction and the restoration of former glory.Then Van Wilder was an unexpected cult success, earning nearly $40 million worldwide. That scuttled any potential course change and encouraged the new...
- 7/31/2015
- by Tom Huddleston
- Vulture
Pantelion Films has optioned the script for English-language romantic comedy Hopelessly Devoted from writers Jill Mazursky and Jamee Decio. Sandra Condito and Paul M. Perez will produce the film, which is targeted to begin production later this year. In Hopelessly Devoted , a notorious Major League Baseball player and a nun, who has been experiencing doubts about her vocation, find that opposites attract. Mazursky's writing credits include Taking Care of Business , which she co-wrote with J.J. Abrams, and Golf Punks . She is also executive producing upcoming documentary Keep on Keepin' On . Mazursky and Decio are represented by Untitled Entertainment and Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal Laviolette Feldman Schenkman & Goodman.
- 3/24/2014
- Comingsoon.net
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