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Friday After Next • The Next Reel Aug 06, 2020

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Coming back just a few short years later, Ice Cube sets his third film in the Friday franchise at Christmastime. It’s a fun shift in the franchise, which also shifts locations yet again to a low-end strip mall where Craig and his cousin Day-Day work as security guards. Cube is yet again tackling the script by himself and bringing on a first-time filmmaker to bring the film to life, this time through music video director Marcus Raboy. Join us as we wrap up our Friday franchise series with Raboy’s 2002 film 'Friday After Next'.
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Next Friday • The Next Reel Jul 30, 2020

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When Ice Cube started up his own production company it made sense to leverage the first film he wrote to make a sequel. After all, most sequels are guaranteed to earn back a part of what their predecessors made. But without Chris Tucker and DJ Pooh, how does Cube handle taking Craig to the suburbs? Join us as we continue our series looking at the Friday franchise with Steve Carr’s 2000 film ‘Next Friday’.
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Friday • The Next Reel Jul 23, 2020

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Ice Cube’s rap career was on fire because of the work he was doing with N.W.A., but after playing Doughboy in John Singleton’s 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, he got the acting bug and wanted to do more films. Join us as we kick off our new series looking at the Friday franchise with F. Gary Gray’s 1995 film Friday.
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Charade • The Next Reel Jun 25, 2020

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Toward the end of Grant’s acting career, he had stopped playing the romantic interest, concerned how his age reflected in the on-screen relationships, particularly with younger women. After this point, he only played a romantic interest one last time, and it was opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade.
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North by Northwest • The Next Reel Jun 18, 2020

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It’s the second in our Cary Grant series this week, and this time we’re heading straight up the Presidents’ noses as we follow Hitch and crew to Mt. Rushmore and beyond in the 1959 classic ‘North by Northwest’.
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Arsenic and Old Lace • The Next Reel Jun 11, 2020

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Cary Grant knew Frank Capra was busy casting for his new film, an adaptation of the Broadway hit Arsenic and Old Lace, and he knew that Ronald Reagan and Jack Benny had both turned the lead role down, so he told Capra he was interested and available. Capra was thrilled, and they set to work.
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Dinner for Schmucks • The Next Reel Jun 04, 2020

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With such a strong curriculum vitae in comedy films, having Jay Roach direct a remake of Francis Veber's Le Dîner de Cons looks great on paper. But when it comes time to write, direct, and release the movie, does it hold up as well?
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Le Dîner de Cons (The Dinner Game) • The Next Reel May 28, 2020

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Francis Veber had written plays, TV shows, and films. He had also directed plenty of well by the time he decided to adapt his hit play "Le Dîner de Cons" for the big screen. Luckily, his brand of farcical humor worked brilliantly with the film version, and it became a huge hit in his home country of France. Join us as we continue our Francis Veber & His Remakes series with his 1998 film "Le Dîner de Cons."
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The Birdcage • The Next Reel May 21, 2020

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When Mike Nichols and Elaine May teamed up again for the first time in over thirty years, it was to adapt Francis Veber's most famous and celebrated works, the 1978 film La Cage aux Folles. Veber's films had been remade in English before — in fact, he'd directed a number of them — but this one was the big one so it needed to be big.
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La Cage Aux Folles • The Next Reel May 14, 2020

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When asked to adapt the hit stage show "La Cage Aux Folles" to the big screen, director Édouard Molinaro knew he had to get comedy writer/director Francis Veber involved to not only get the story out of the one-set show and open up the world, but also — and more importantly — to flesh out the core relationship so the film wasn't just all stereotypes.
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