Marvel’s First Family might not save the day after all. “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is quickly losing steam in its second weekend, signaling the comic book adventure isn’t connecting at the box office beyond the film’s core demographic of superhero fans. After a healthy $117.6 million debut, “The Fantastic Four” suffered a hefty 66% drop in its sophomore outing …
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Check Out The Cast Of The Three Original ‘Naked Gun’ Movies! Published August 2, 2025 4:00 PM PDT The new version of “The Naked Gun” is here, and Liam Neeson‘s introducing Lt. Frank Drebin to a new generation of fans … but ya can’t forget about the three gut-busting original movies in the series! The Leslie Nielsen-led film series, which …
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What better way to go out than to go out laughing. Paramount’s acclaimed The Naked Gun revival — starring Liam Neeson opposite Pamela Anderson — started off its North American run with a Friday gross of $6.3 million for an estimated opening of $16.5 million. That’s good enough for a third-place finish behind Marvel holdover The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which …
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Writer-director Akiva Schaffer initially thought a reboot of The Naked Gun was blasphemous until he realized the full potential of having Liam Neeson step into the shoes of Leslie Nielsen. In 2021, producer Seth MacFarlane was tasked with reinventing ZAZ’s (Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker) beloved spoof comedy franchise after three decades and a few failed revivals along the way. The …
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More than 30 years after the “Naked Gun” franchise enjoyed its “Final Insult” in 1994, arguably the world’s most beloved slapstick spoof film series is back for another slice of straight-faced silliness — and to test the contemporary box office waters of big-screen comedy. Leslie Nielsen, whose legendary turn as bumbling L.A. detective Frank Drebin still has fans merrily reciting …
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Evangelists of the Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedies of the late 20th century might consider what I’m about to say sacrilege, but “The Naked Gun” franchise is the pinnacle of ZAZ-style spoof brilliance — yes, even more so than the trio’s 1980 gold standard, “Airplane!” In a filmography so packed with laugh-a-second gags, 1988’s “The Naked Gun” and its two …
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Paramount’s “The Naked Gun” reboot, one of the year’s funniest movies, has made $1.6 million at the box office so far after Thursday previews. It’s on track to make between $15 million and $17 million, which is a respectable start considering theatrical comedies rarely get released anymore and the film only cost $42 million to produce. It stars Liam Neeson as …
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The first weekend of August begins with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s Bad Guys 2 stealing $2.25M from showtimes that began yesterday at 2PM, which is higher than the first Bad Guys‘ $1.15M Thursday which turned into a near $8M first day and $23.9M in a recovering post Covid box office. The outlook on Bad Guys 2 in regards to tracking was $20M. …
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The fourth reboot of The Naked Gun arrives this week from Paramount Global, its distributor, which is also heralding its own massive reboot — a study in contrasts. The three Naked Gun films over 40 years hilariously chronicled a litany of organizational debacles, the last even subtitled “Final Insult.” But in unveiling his $8 billion takeover, Skydance’s young CEO David …
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The film is a reboot of the beloved 1980s and 1990s crime comedies, and Liam is starring as Detective Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen’s character in the originals. Pamela, on the other hand, plays a woman named Beth Davenport, with whom Frank becomes involved. Source link
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