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20 June 2008 10:47 PM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Sunday 9:00 a.m. (Pacific): Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway both have new all-time best opening weekends as Get Smart (Warner Bros.) has scored an excellent $39.15 million. The action-comedy delivered an estimated $13.5 million on opening day, was up 5 percent on Saturday for $14.2 million, and Warner Bros is anticipating an $11.45 million Sunday. For Carell, who steps into the shoes of Don Adams from the late '60s TV hit, Get Smart tops his previous best opening, Evan Almighty: All-time Best Steve Carell Live Action Opening Weekends 1. Get Smart — $39.15 million (Estimated) 2. Evan Almighty — $31.19 million 3. Anchorman — $28.41 million 4. The 40-Year-Old Virgin — $21.42 million 5. Dan in Real Life — $11.8 million

Steve Mason

16 June 2008 7:56 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

While Steve Carell and Mike Myers face off at the multiplexes this week, indie theaters fight back with a wide range of quirk, including a meter maid romance, a doc on balloon animals and a horror flick about killer hair extensions.

"Brick Lane"

"Brick Lane" in London's East End might be just a relatively short jaunt down the M1 from Salford, but it's still a million miles (and a decade) away from the careful multi-ethnic empathy of another film that dealt with south Asian refugees in England, the 1970s-set "East is East." This story follows 18-year-old Nazneem (Tannishtha Chatterjee), who steps off a plane from Bangladesh and into an arranged marriage with middle-aged Chanu (Satish Kaushik). Bored and lonely, she's forced to question her beliefs when the charismatic and secular Karim (Christopher Simpson) knocks on her door. Director Sarah Gavron landed herself a Bafta nomination for this

Neil Pedley

10 June 2008 6:17 PM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

According to studio sources, Get Smart (Warner Bros.) has the early edge on The Love Guru (Paramount) in industry tracking of next Friday's battle of big studio comedies. It has been 40 years since the television debut of Don Adams and his "cone of silence" on NBC, but Get Smart, created by comedy legends Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, seems to be gaining some traction with a whole new generation. Peter Segal (The Longest Yard, 50 First Dates) has helmed the adaptation of the late '60s TV classic, with Steve Carrell as Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99. Despite trailing Love Guru in Un-Aided Awareness 4 percent-3 percent and Total Awareness 80 percent-78 percent, Get Smart holds a decisive advantage in the Definite Interest and First Choice columns.

Steve Mason

22 May 2008 7:55 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Mel Brooks believes that the big screen update of his spy spoof TV series Get Smart will appeal to modern audiences. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the comedy icon described the film's leading man Steve Carell, taking over the role made famous by Don Adams in the '60s, as "brilliant". He said: "To choose a guy who's right in the Don Adams groove, you couldn't get a better guy than Steve Carell. And yet he doesn't do Don Adams. He does none of his delivery. He just does Steve Carell." Brooks added (more)

Simon Reynolds

4 articles from 2008