The Great One Is About To Run The Box Office 5 Movies In 14 Months

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Central Intelligence, the other big release of the weekend, earning a rock-solid (pun intended) $34.5 million in its domestic debut. It also earned $6.8m in 24 overseas markets, giving the $50m action comedy a $41.3m global bow. The Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart action comedy is a Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. release in the states, although Universal/Comcast Corp. is distributing the New Line Cinemas production overseas (it will slowly expand over the summer worldwide). Warner Bros. and Universal co-financed the film.

The surprisingly winning caper is banking on old-school star power, with two of the few “face in the trailer” movie stars around teaming up for what could be a new franchise if it has legs. The film stars Hart as a “peaked in high school” accountant who discovers that the class outcast has grown up into, well, someone who looks like The Rock and works for the CIA. The good news is that the film had a surprisingly spoiler-free marketing campaign, with most of the material in the trailers coming from the first act.

The other good news is that the movie turned out to be better than it looked and better than was suggested by the last-minute review embargo. Heck, I might even argue that Warner Bros. erred by not letting the embargo drop sooner. The “wait until the last minute” embargo had us all thinking the worst. Yes, the reviews were mixed-positive, but it’s never good when you have to start every conversation with “No, no, wait, it’s good!”

Dwayne Johnson has been in that position several times (The Rundown, Hercules, etc.) in his career.

To be fair, A) what critics will think of a major comedy is less predictable than what they will think of an action blockbuster and B) star-driven comedy is the most critic-proof genre this side of cheap horror. So yeah, both of the big stars pulled their weight, although you might argue that there was only a little bit of a bump from having both of them in the same film.

Although, it’s not like there are tons of moviegoers who only like Dwayne Johnson or only like Kevin Hart, so in retrospect double the star power shouldn’t necessarily equal double the opening weekend.
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CI had some good jokes, and was an entertaining movie to watch. Lines were short, theater was empty on a Sunday (maybe because of Father's day), and I went with a good friend. All in all great day at movie. I would not see it again tho, wasn't that good, or a classic. Preferred it over Rush hour's though.

I fee like you have to be between the age of 18 and 35 to enjoy it though (have to be familiar with Rock's goofy side from WWE and know Kevin Hart's range well
Movie attempted to tell a complex action storyline thru comedy, but in the end some elements were missing. I cried twice, so was able to get involved with characters emotionally to some extent and appreciated sappy ending. 7.5/10 (better than I expected)
 
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That Moana movie looks like it's up my alley as far as animation is concerned.
 
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Does Rocky have any kids?
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