Memorial Day is the official start of summer, but in Movieland, summer starts well before, in early May or even sooner. (I generally say there four season on the calendar but only two seasons for movies: Summer and Awards.) Still, Memorial Day is still supposed to be a big deal in movie theaters; kids have an extra day off from school and Hollywood delivers some of the season’s biggest offerings.
There was a time not so long ago when Memorial Day weekend was a big deal for Hollywood, but this weekend felt more like a bunch of under-performers gathering together and learning very little about life. Call it the anti-Breakfast Club, if you will. This certainly isn’t what Hollywood had in mind for most of the franchises, and while Johnny Depp’s latest pirate movie did OK, OK seems to be the operative word of the summer if you’re not a movie about superheroes or literate villagers. Here’s the weekend gross through Sunday afternoon:
Baywatch doesn’t hit theaters until next summer, so it’s going to be quite a while before we see the first trailer or official photos. Thankfully, Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron are pretty fond of Instagram, and the pair have been sharing lots of images from the set, including our first looks at co-stars Kelly Rohrbach, Priyanka Chopra and Ilfenesh Hadera. If nothing else, the R-rated comedy has a diverse cast and they all look like they’re having a blast.
‘Baywatch,’ starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, was a cornerstone TV show of the ’90s and ’00s and it’s headed to the big screen, courtesy of Paramount. Word is that a pair of Justins are wanted for roles in the film – that’d be Bieber and Timberlake.
Could Justin Timberlake be bringing sexy back … to the beach? Rumor has it that Paramount wants the ‘Bad Teacher’ and ‘Friends with Benefits’ star to lead its planned reboot of the ‘Baywatch’ franchise – and we have details about how they would use him.