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Video - Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis Swap Spit and Watch Monkey Porn in New Comedy Video

Will Ferrell and Zack Galifianakis in the same room?

Both are known for their comedy and impromptu shtick, and now they have unleashed their personal side on video for the entire world to see.

The two actors sat down, in the now infamous “Between two ferns” video series on FunyorDie, to talk about Ferrell’s movie “Everything Must Go”.

The film, about a relapsing alcoholic who loses his wife and his job, stoops to holding a yard sale in his front yard in an attempt to raise money and start over.

But the two nut jobs never really get to talk much about the film. They watch monkey porn and feed each other cherries until the sexual tension is too great to handle and… well, you can see for yourself.

And please don’t ask us what the monkey was doing…



Will and Zach are currently filming the comedy “Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie”, about two guys who get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.

Joining them on the project are John C. Reilly, Jeff Goldblum, Will Forte, Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, and Erica Durance. The film is due for release sometime next year.

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Box Office Actuals: May 13-15, 2011

Via Box Office Mojo, The Numbers, Deadline, and other sources:

Retaining the top spot for a second weekend, "Thor" held a better second weekend than most comic book adaptations tend to do and banked another $34.7 million domestically, raising its total to $119.5 million in 10 days. Traditionally, the comic book adaptation film loses more than half of its opening audience in a second weekend, but "Thor" lost just 47.2%. An encouraging figure as Paramount builds towards "X-Men: First Class" and "Captain America..." in the coming months.

As 'Thor" held well, the big story of the weekend was the huge opening for the Kristen Wiig-led "Bridesmaids", which exceeded even the most optimistic projections to score an impressive $26.2 million opening frame. Critics loved the film and audiences grew through the weekend as word-of-mouth spread on this being not just a knockoff of "The Hangover" or other similar R-rated ensemble comedies. Countless other outlets have written about the film's success and whether this is a gamechanger for Hollywood, but Nikki Finke at Deadline is on record as saying that many higher ups in rival studios wanted this film to fail. "Bridesmaids", budgeted at $32.5 million, is a moneymaker by Wednesday and will have virtually no opposition heading into its second weekend. If "Bridesmaids" can pull a second strong weekend, this might be well on its way to a $90-$100 million final haul.

"Priest", Paul Bettany's second film with director Scott Stewart, following 2010's "Legion", was underestimated slightly in its first weekend. Earning just under $15 million, while reportedly budgeted at $60 million, "Priest" may have suffered from its PG-13 rating appearing to be at at odds with its harsh and frightening subject matter and imagery. "Priest" opened on more screens and with a smaller sum than "Legion", which started north of $17 million in January 2010. Screen Gems may make this profitable with grosses from around the world, but not recouping the budget domestically will be a big disappointment. "Priest" looks to land in the $40-$45 million range stateside.

In a somewhat surprising development, "Rio" became the soup du jour for families who were seemingly lost in the shuffle with the recent openings targeting teens and young adults. "Rio" slid a negligible 2.7%, despite losing more than 300 locations from last weekend. In a fifth week, this type of drop of is almost unheard of and the film has made $125.2 million in North America and is chugging along to the tune of $429 million worldwide. "Rio" will lose screens and attendance with "Pirates of the Caribbean" arrives, but the film has another 10 days or so without true competition until the eagerly anticipated "Kung Fu Panda 2" arrives on May 26.

"Soul Surfer" continues to draw return business even as it loses more and more sites. Down just 20.8% this weekend, "Soul Surfer" may have a small take by appearances, $1.8 million, but on an $18 production budget, the film has been an impressive performer with 6 weeks in the Top 10 and overall take just under $40 million. The film has been given a July DVD date, which will be officially announced in the coming days.

Will Ferrell sells drama, a "Cave" finds new heights, and lots and lots of indie films try and stake a claim after the cut:

Opening with an acceptable haul of $825k at 218 locations, Will Ferrell's "Everything Must Go" performed adequately for Roadside Attractions. The drama, the third dramatic effort for the comedic superstar, earned one of the largest per screen averages amongst scaled down new releases ($3,724), but still did not come anywhere near expectations.

If "Everything Must Go" had a rather ho-hum style of an opening, then the much talked about Joseph Gordon-Leavitt project, "Hesher", offered a shoulder shrug in terms of its reception. Just crossing $3,000 per site, the film opened with $126k at 42 locations. Newcomers Wrekin Hill Entertainment had worked the film hard and tried to generate huge word-of-mouth in the months leading up the release, including receiving prominent articles on The Huffington Post and Yahoo! News, as well as with other underground music and film sites. Shot for $7 million, it will be interesting to see if the film can gain traction or stays small and lands less than $1 million in overall box office receipts.

Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" surged past $1 million in total receipts, earning another $427k, increasing 17%, and netting one of the largest per screen averages of the weekend. The film continues to draw huge buzz and IFC's rollout could not be going any better. At just 82 locations, "Cave" is closing in on Herzog's largest grossing documentary, "Grizzly Man", which grossed $3.2 million in 2005.

IFC Films had another glorious success with "L'Amour Fou", a documentary profiling fashion icon Yves Saint-Laurent and his longtime partner, Pierre Berge, and their life together, earned a staggering $37k on a mere two screens; easily earning the highest per screen average of any film from the weekend.

Elsewhere, "The First Grader", a fictionalized true story of an 84-year old Kenyan veteran who wants to enroll in public education started impressively, earning $20k at 3 locations.

In the third of a series of Lionsgate released Latin-themed film projects, "Go For It!" was ignored by everyone, amassing a mere $120k at 218 locations for a sad $549 per site average. Following "From Prada To Nada" ($3.0 million) and "No Eres Tu, Soy Yo" ($1.3 million), "Go For It!" may prove that these films are not interesting to the targeted audience. Lionsgate may have to rethink the films they have tapped for this series and go back to the boardroom, as no one went for it in this regard.

The turtle slow rollouts continued for "Meek's Cutoff", "The Double Hour" and "Incendies" and all had more and more strong increases. All three films increased significantly as more people had a chance to see them, with Meek's gaining 58% ($345k total), "Double Hour" rising 32% ($382k total), and "Incendies" surging 116% ($380k total).

THE WEEKEND BREAKDOWN

#1 Film - "Thor", earned $34.7 million

Last Year's #1 Film at this time: "Iron Man 2", held for a second weekend with $52.0 million

Biggest Per Screen Average: "Bridesmaids", $8,995 at 2,918 locations ($26.2 million cumulative)

Worst Per Screen Average (50+ Sites): "No Eres Tu, Soy Yo", $498 at 50 locations ($25k, $1.3 million cumulative)

Largest Increase (50+ Sites): "No Eres Tu, Soy Yo", +72.9%

Steepest Decline (50+ Sites): "There Be Dragons", -79.8%

Films Earning More Than $1m for the weekend: 11

Films Which Surpassed $100m: N/A

Films Which Surpassed Reported Budget This Weekend: "Prom"

The Top 40, with other notables!


TW

LW

DAY

FILM

WKD

TOTAL

% CHG

1

1

10

Thor

$34.7m

$119.5m

-47.2

2

N

3

Bridesmaids

$26.2m

$26.2m

New

3

2

17

Fast Five

$20.4m

$169.7m

-37.0

4

N

3

Priest

$15.0m

$15.0m

New

5

5

31

Rio

$8.3m

$125.2m

-2.7

6

3

10

Jumping The Broom

$7.1m

$25.8m

-53.6

7

4

10

Something Borrowed

$6.9m

$25.5m

-50.7

8

6

24

Water For Elephants

$4.2m

$48.6m

-30.8

9

7

24

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

$2.2m

$50.2m

-47.0

10

8

38

Soul Surfer

$1.8m

$39.2m

-20.8

11

10

17

Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil

$1.2m

$8.6m

-43.6

12

11

45

Insidious

$958k

$51.7m

-28.4

13

9

17

Prom

$939k

$9.0m

-57.6

14

12

45

Source Code

$837k

$52.2m

-32.7

15

N

3

Everything Must Go

$825k

$825k

New

16

13

24

African Cats

$667k

$14.0m

-37.4

17

14

38

Hanna

$597k

$38.6m

-28.6

18

24

17

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams

$472k

$1.3m

+17.1

19

17

31

The Conspirator

$464k

$10.5m

-24.9

20

18

59

Win Win

$405k

$8.9m

-23.4

21

20

45

Hop

$402k

$106.9m

-19.0

22

21

59

The Lincoln Lawyer

$398k

$56.1m

-14.6

23

20

59

Limitless

$358k

$77.6m

-26.3

24

23

66

Jane Eyre

$337k

$10.0m

-21.0

25

25

38

Born To Be Wild IMAX

$324k

$4.8m

+11.8

26

27

52

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

$291k

$51.6m

+32.2

27

16

31

Scream 4

$277k

$37.5m

-60.5

28

22

73

Rango

$258k

$120.8m

-40.6

29

28

38

Arthur

$238k

$32.6m

+8.9

30

32

66

Battle: Los Angeles

$187k

$83.3m

-0.9

31

29

94

Gnomeo And Juliet

$182k

$99.3m

-15.3

32

26

73

The Adjustment Bureau

$169k

$62.3m

-40.0

33

36

10

The Beaver

$161k

$312k

+49.8

34

15

10

There Be Dragons

$142k

$973k

-79.8

35

47

24

Incendies

$135k

$380k

+116.0

36

N

3

Hesher

$126k

$126k

New

37

31

31

Atlas Shrugged Part I

$125k

$4.6m

-36.7

38

N

3

Go For It!

$120k

$120k

New

39

33

87

I Am

$109k

$1.1m

-41.9

40

43

31

The Double Hour

$107k

$382k

+32.8

BUBBLING UNDER INCREASES AND OPENINGS:

42. “Hubble 3D”, $105k, $24.8m total, +27.9%

43. “Meek's Cutoff”, $97k, $345k total, +58.1%

52. “13 Assassins”, $53k, $202k, +9.0%

57. “L'Amour Fou”, $37k, New

59. "Queen To Play", $31k, $209k total, +3.6%

The most controversial movie of the year gets reviewed...

...right here at The Awards Circuit! Today's update includes one of the few reviews out there of the uber-controversial movie 'A Serbian Film'. I won't get into anything about the work here, but I will say that the controversy is actually somewhat well-founded, for a change. That review can be found here (definitely check it out, so I don't feel like I saw it for nothing). Lots of other flicks got reviewed as well, including the latest comedy from the Judd Apatow factory...the female centric 'Bridesmaids' (found here), Will Ferrell's small-scale drama 'Everything Must Go' (found here), Werner Herzog's latest documentary 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' (found here), and the documentary 'The People vs George Lucas' (found here). Check them all out and give us some feedback!
-Do you think you can stand the sight of 'A Serbian Film'? Are you interested in either of the documentaries? What about the other films we reviewed? Let us know!

Box Office Bulletin: "Bridesmaids" turn heads while "Thor" stays #1

Via Box Office Mojo, The Numbers, Deadline, and other sources:

Read Robert Hamer's Weekend Openings Column for the May 13-15 weekend...

"Thor" continued to rule the box office universe in its second weekend by avoiding the typical slide that action movies and comic book adaptations tend to suffer from. Hot on its heels and performing well above expectations is the female ensemble comedy, "Bridesmaids", which impressed many pundits with its success.

"Thor" slid less than 50% in weekend 2 and earned an estimated $34.5 million, moving it to $119.3 million stateside in 10 days and $318 million worldwide. Budgeted at $150 million, the film had strong attendance during the week and although "Thor" will likely take a big hit when the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" film drops on May 20, everyone is thrilled with the film's success in furthering the build to 2012's "The Avengers". Expectations are also heightened for July's "Captain America: The First Avenger" with "Thor"'s success.

Co-written by Saturday Night Live star Kristen Wiig, "Bridesmaids" was a test for Hollywood. Wrongly saddled with comparisons to "The Hangover", the all female-ensemble R-rated comedy drew in a much larger than projected audience. While it finished just north of our own Robert Hamer's predictions, "Bridesmaids" banked an estimated $24.4 million on a reported budget of $32.5 million. The movie will likely be profitable by the middle of the week and could holdover strong in its second weekend with no direct competition for its target audience. While audience reports showed attendance as nearly 2:1 female, the film received a 90% Rotten Tomatoes average and was the buzz movie of the weekend. I'll hold back editorializing to some extent, but let me simply say that I think everyone wins with the success of "Bridesmaids" this weekend.

NEW OPENINGS:

In January 2010, Paul Bettany made the leap from dramatic character actor to post-apocalyptic action star with "Legion". After "Legion"'s mediocre but profitable performance, Bettany is back as the star of "Priest", an adaptation of a Korean graphic novel also set in a post-apocalyptic landscape and reuniting Bettany with "Legion"'s director, Scott Stewart.

Shot for $60 million, a much larger budget than "Legion" received, "Priest" did not find the audience it hoped for, landing with a disappointing $14.5 million estimated start, less than "Legion"'s $17.5 million start. Ravaged by critics, "Priest" may have suffered from confusing trailers which never really provided viewers a sense of what they were getting. Also, the PG-13 rating seemed to not fit the horror/science-fiction subject matter, which may have steered folks down the hall to see "Thor" a second time. With this opening, "Priest" will probably struggle to land at $40 million domestically, the same haul which "Legion" enjoyed, but when all is assessed and considered, this is a significant disappointment for studio Screen Gems.

National Geographic Entertainment scores a big opening and Will Ferrell struggles to sell, as well as other notables, after the cut!



ALSO OF NOTE

Roadside Attractions took the cautious route with "Everything Must Go!", a drama featuring Will Ferrell as a man whose wife leaves him and tosses all of his stuff on the lawn. Ferrell decides to live amongst all of his stuff and tries to make a rationalization of the changes in his life. The premise is intriguing, but audiences were either not aware of the film, or put off by the subject matter in tough economic times. Then again, access may have been an issue as the movie opened at just 218 locations with a mediocre $825k. If Roadside expands the film or better promotes it, the film may still find some traction, but shot for a mere $5 million, "Everything Must Go!" may have to wait for DVD to earn its money back.

Following in the footsteps of January's "From Prada To Nada", Lionsgate Films launched its second Latin-themed feature in partnership with Televisa and Latin filmmakers, "Go For It!". No one did and in fact "Go For It!" drew no interest whatsoever from Latino audiences or otherwise, as the film drew a pathetic $505 per screen average, scoring $110k for the opening weekend. Lionsgate dropped the film in the same number of locations as Ferrell's aforementioned "Everything Must Go!", but this "Go" was inert and motionless.

On just 40 screens, Joseph Gordon-Leavitt's turn as "Hesher" drew a lower-than-anticipated response. Mixed-to-positive reviews could not bring this to strong numbers, but the film still earned approximately $127k in its platform opening. Gordon-Leavitt has earned raves for his performance and if upstart studio Wreckin Hill Entertainment can build buzz, the film may have some legs going forward.

Most notable for the weekend estimates, is that the third-highest per screen average of the weekend came from National Geographic Entertainment's inspiring family drama, "The First Grader". Recounting a fictionalized version of a true story of an 84-year old Kenyan soldier who decides to learn how to read, the film scored an impressive $7,533 per screen average in its 3 locations, earning an estimated $23k. Reviews were middling but those in attendance were reportedly moved and National Geographic looks to roll this out incrementally over the next several weeks.

"The Beaver" continued its rollout to dismal per showing totals despite expanding from 22 locations to 105 sites. The film did increase 46% in its second weekend, but scored a passive $1,505 per screen average. The film has earned approximately $308k thus far. It will be interesting to see what Summit Entertainment chooses to do with the film's long-planned wide expansion on May 20. People thus far seem to be largely uninterested.

1980's throwback "Skateland" opened on 2 screens with a mediocre $2,583 per site average and the controversial NC-17 rated "A Serbian Tale" did not have its numbers reported at press time.

Overall, the weekend box office earned an estimated $125 million grossed by the Top 12 films, a drop of an estimated 19.3% from the previous weekend. The Top 12 from the same weekend in 2010 earned $131.4 million, led by a $52.0 million second weekend for "Iron Man 2".

THE TOP 10 (Estimates, with Actuals reported on Monday)

1. "Thor" (Paramount), $34.5 million, $119.3 million, 2 wks
2. "Bridesmaids" (Universal), $24.4 million, NEW
3. "Fast Five" (Universal), $19.5 million, $168.8 million, 3 wks
4. "Priest" (Screen Gems), $14.5 million, NEW
5. "Rio" (20th Century Fox), $8.0 million, $125.0 million, 5 wks
6. "Jumping The Broom" (TriStar/Sony), $7.3 million, $26.0 million, 2 wks
7. "Something Borrowed" (Warner Bros.), $7.0 million, $25.6 million, 2 wks
8. "Water For Elephants" (20th Century Fox), $4.1 million, $48.5 million, 4 wks
9. "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family" (Lionsgate), $2.2 million, $50.2 million, 3 wks
10. "Soul Surfer" (TriStar/FilmDistrict), $1.8 million, $39.2 million, 6 wks