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Big, brawny man stands next to tiny, shouting man. Hilarity ensues. Ever since the box office success of Twins (okay, well, probably before that), the formula has been recycled by Hollywood again and again. These days, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart seem to be the big man/little man pairing du jour, with multiple projects hoping to tap into the endless laughter supply that is their difference in stature. Before they head to the jungle for the planned Jumanji reboot, the duo co-star in this summer''s Central Intelligence, a new comedy from We''re The Millers director Rawson Marshall Thurber. The plot''s not immediately clear from the trailers thus far, but one thing is: A tall guy and a short guy hanging out is always funny.
Central Intelligence opens nationwide on June 17, but The A.V. Club and Warner Bros. Pictures have an opportunity for you to ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows—the sequel to the 2014 movie that boldly reimagined the popular pizza-loving chelonians as nightmarish monstrosities with nostrils, lips, and the physique of golden-age Muscle Beach bodybuilder Chuck Ahrens—topped the domestic box office this weekend with $35.3 million. That''s a lot less than its predecessor''s $65.5 million opening weekend, a steep drop that could be chalked up to today''s smartphone-addled youth no longer being able to relate to the experience of projecting human emotions on to the glassy stare of a pet turtle. (That, or the fact that that a large portion of its potential audience has seen the previous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and isn''t looking for a repeat.)
That put fellow 'comic-book-based franchise entry with a cheerless subtitle' X-Men: Apocalypse in the No. 2 spot with an estimated $22.3 million; the ...
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