Harold & Kumar
July 25, 2008
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Variety is reporting that Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who wrote "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" and directed the latter, will return to write and direct a third installment for Mandate Pictures.
H & K stars John Cho and Kal Penn are expected to reprise their roles as the stoner duos. The first two films created such a cult following that it’s no surprise there is a third installment underway.
The sequel, which cost $12 million to make, earned $14.9 million it’s opening weekend before topping out at $38 million. We’re pretty sure it will do well in DVD sales as “Gauntanamo Bay” releases this Tuesday.
When Hollyscoop caught up with John Cho at the Guantanamo Bay junket we asked whether he would be apart of another sequel.
John said, “We topped the first one in every category. I think our gross out jokes are grosser and there’s more nudity and the politics we take it further and the racial stuff we take it further. So, I don’t know what we can do for the third one. I’m really at a loss. Maybe we’ll go backwards and make a cautionary morality tale from the middle ages or something."
Although the storyline is being kept under wraps, we're sure it will involve a lot of smoking and stupid comedy.
April 28, 2008
The other big debut, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, came in second with $14.5 mil.
The Forbidden Kingdom slid from #1 last week to #3 with an unforbidden $11.2 mil. Sex doesn't always sell, as the erotic thriller Deception pulled in a flaccid $2.2 mil in its opening week.
April 25, 2008
The movie begins by doing the one thing that sequels rarely do: continue the story where the original left off. It literally begins with Harold in the shower getting ready to see his true love in Amsterdam and Kumar taking a massive dump while he's doing it.
The two get to the airport where they meet up with Kumar's college flame (and her fiancé), which not only sets up a major subplot of the film, but also gives us a brief, but hilarious look into the origins of Harold and Kumar's friendship.
Kumar, who helped fuel some of the problems in the Harold and Kumar first film, does no less in this one beginning with smuggling an innovative bong (which gets confused with "bomb") on the plane and getting the two branded as terrorists.
After a brief stay at Guantanamo and an introduction to a sandwich that you won't find at Subway, the pair set out to clear their names. Along the way, they encounter and make us laugh at a thousand racial, sexual and cultural prejudices, biases, stereotypes and anything else you can imagine. From yuppie rednecks who live in the woods with their inbred son to Klansman who mistake both Harold and Kumar for Mexicans.
Neil Patrick Harris delivers another tour de force as...NEIL PATRICK HARRIS! How an openly gay man can pull off playing an extreme mushroom taking, hooker branding ladies man that would make porn stars blush is beyond me, but he does it and then some.
John Cho and Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar, respectively) play off each other with a charm and goofiness that harkens back to the Hope & Crosby films. A true sign of a good buddy film is that you wish they were your buddies, too. Rob Corddry (The Daily Show) as an insane Homeland Security agent keeps the boys on the run while showing that he's ready for a show on his own. Sorry, John.
When movies advertise as being "laugh out loud funny," they're usually lying. I was in a crowded theatre and while most of the crowd probably never tried pot (myself included), the place was literally roaring with laughter. Also, while it's good to have seen Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, you'll enjoy the movie just the same. Screenwriters (and now directors) Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg do a magnificent job of staying true to the first film while taking a few chances with the sequel.
Will the boys be exonerated? Will Kumar be reunited with his true love? Will George Bush get higher than Google stock? Head to the theatres and find out. You'll be happy that you did.
April 25, 2008
Baby Mama
A successful single career woman finds she is unable to become pregnant and hires an unlikely surrogate to carry her child.
Deception
Hugh Jackman is a charismatic lawyer who introduces a mild- mannered accountant to an erotic world of underground sex clubs.
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
The stoner buddy duo returns, only to find themselves on the run from the government when they are mistaken as terrorists.
Here's the trailer for 'Baby Mama'...
April 17, 2008
John On How His Life Has Changed Since the Movie:
"People on the street call me Harold all the time, which is funny because, you know, it’s based on a real guy, Harold Lee that’s friends with the filmmakers and now Harold and I are friends.”
On His Co-Star Kal Penn:
"It was much easier the second time around and his drug problems seem to be in check."
On Whether He's a Pot Smoker:
"I don’t understand how someone like Snoop apparently does concerts high! How does he memorize? How does he remember? It’s unbelievable. Its like he’s an Olympian. I'm not a pot smoker. I really am not. I have a coke problem and I’m addicted to Quaaludes.”
On One of His Favorite Scenes:
“I was there on set when Rob Courrdry wiped his ass with the Bill of Rights and there was actual dung on it. We have to say this film is hilarious and that’s just one of the scenes, which will make you, laugh out loud.”
John On Whether They'll Be Another Sequel:
“We topped the first one in every category. I think our gross out jokes are grosser and there’s more nudity and the politics we take it further and the racial stuff we take it further. So, I don’t know what we can do for the third one. I’m really at a loss. Maybe we’ll go backwards and make a cautionary morality tale from the middle ages or something."
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