Alison Brie is ready to be an action star
The new comedy “Get Hard” gives Alison Brie a chance to be even more rambunctious than in her day job as Annie Edison on “Community.” The actress plays the gold-digging wife of Will Ferrell who makes...
View ArticleKevin Hart and Will Ferrell Demonstrate The Master Thespian Art Of Fake Crying
Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden as a last-ditch effort to promote Get Hard, which opens in theaters nationwide on Friday. Corden put them on the spot,...
View ArticleThe real reason I’m confused by how ugly the ‘Get Hard’ rape jokes are
Because they can do better. I was told today on Facebook that we should stop talking about “Get Hard” this week. Never mind that in a typical week leading up to the release of a movie, you'd typically...
View ArticleDon’t You Dare Ask Will Ferrell About His Pet Cockatoo, Professor Feathers
So let’s just recap what we’ve gotten from Will Ferrell in this most recent lead up to his new film, Get Hard. He called back to his classic Late Night appearances by dressing as a leprechaun on...
View ArticleWill Ferrell And Kevin Hart “Preview” Sunday’s Rockets-Wizards Game on ABC
Now that four-time NBA Celebrity Game MVP Kevin Hart has officially retired from basketball, he can get back to his first love, i.e. making America laugh, whether we like it or not. But basketball...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Furious 7’ easily holds off ‘The Longest Ride’ for no. 1 Friday
“Furious 7” continues to make history. As of Thursday, the latest installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise had earned $191.9 million in its first week. That places it at no. 10 for all-time...
View ArticleWatch Kevin Hart Reveal The Details Behind His Disastrous ‘SNL’ Audition
As you saw in that great #SNL40 montage, a lot of famous faces have attempted to audition for Saturday Night Live over the years. This includes Kevin Hart who stopped by Conan to promote Get Hard, but...
View ArticleRobots, Princesses, And Liam Neeson: Your March Movie Preview
Hi Ho there, friendly Internet neighbors. Spring has sprung! Except for those of you who live on the East Coast, in which case, snow hell on Earth has devoured you. Sorry about that! Perhaps a March...
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‘Get Hard’ Might Make You ‘Get Sad’ For Everyone Involved
There’s a scene in Get Hard that I can’t believe made it into a movie, made by smart people, in the year 2015. The premise of Get Hard is that James King (Will Ferrell) has been sentenced to 10 years...
View ArticleCringe: 13 movies with blatantly homophobic scenes
The new comedy “Get Hard” stars Kevin Hart as an unlikely coach who trains Will Ferrell for a stint in prison. In one scene, Hart insists that Ferrell go to a top LA brunch spot and give oral sex to a...
View ArticleOutrage Watch: ‘Get Hard’ backlash is getting louder by the day
Welcome to the March 27, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: “Get Hard” is getting slammed. The...
View Article‘Get Hard’ Is A Decent Premise In Desperate Need Of A Script
Get Hard feels like someone had a great pitch for a smart, satirical comedy about race that got greenlit so fast he had to try to write it on the car ride to the set. There are a few funny bits, but...
View ArticleBox Office: Rihanna and J-Lo power ‘Home’ to no. 1 Friday over ‘Get Hard’
DreamWorks Animation only has one release in 2015, “Home.” Considering how much investors constantly scrutinize the studio that put a lot of pressure on the publicly traded company and its marketing...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Home’ is no. 1 as ‘Get Hard’ is Will Ferrell’s biggest debut in...
The box office giveth and the box office taketh away, but this weekend was bountiful for four different movies. DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox's “Home” took the top spot with $54 million....
View ArticleWeekend Box Office: ‘Get Hard’ Earned Almost $20 Million Less Than ‘Home’
I looked at my screening invite for Home last week and thought “Home? What the hell is Home?” Then today I saw that Home had grossed an estimated $54 million domestic and $102.2 million including...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Furious 7’ goes full throttle with $67.3 million on Friday
“Furious 7” has arrived and it has conquered. The latest installment of the “Fast and Furious” franchise took in $67.3 million on Friday surpassing “The Hunger Games” for the 11th biggest single day...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Furious 7’ opens to an April record of $143.6 million
It looks like “Furious 7's” opening weekend was slightly front loaded, but when you've made $143.6 million in just three days, who's complaining? The latest installment in the “Fast and Furious”...
View ArticleBox Office: ‘Furious 7’ crosses $250 million in just 10 days and is still no. 1
A little under nine years ago most of Hollywood thought Universal Studios' “Fast and Furious” franchise was dead in the water. The third installment in the series, “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo...
View ArticleThe Absolute Worst Movies of 2015
Well, it was another terrible year at the movies! Or at least you'd think so judging from this list, in which we, the HitFix staff, highlight 2015's most heinous cinematic atrocities. Let us revel in...
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