The Wedding Planner

Adam Shankman (The Pacifier, The Wedding Planner) will produce an adaptation of the 1958 musical Bye Bye Birdie. Shankman directed the hit musical Hairspray in 2007 and is a former choreographer. Columbia Pictures hopes the musical vet will breathe some new life into the long-gestating adaptation, which has undergone a number of different incarnations, including a proposed re-imagining with a hip-hop star in the lead.
Shankman's next directorial efforts are Bob: The Musical and The 8th Voyage of Sinbad.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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Let the summer box office begin! Wolverine slashed his way to the #1 spot with an estimated $87 million for opening weekend. This is somewhat lower that the last franchise installment X-Men: The Last Stand, which made $102.8 million on it's first weekend. Matthew McConaughey saw his worst romantic comedy opening out of five films with Ghosts of Girlfriends Past trailing the previous Fools Gold, Failure to Launch, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, and The Wedding Planner all averaged over $23 million.The remaining 8 of the top 10 were from ghosts of weekend past so just assume they all moved down, ok? P.S. Read our review for X-Men Origins: Wolverine Here. Title Weekend Gross Total Gross 1 X-Men Origins: Wolverine $87,000,000 $87,000,000 2 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past $15,325,000 $15,325,000 3 Obsessed $12,200,000 $47,002,000 4 17 Again $6,355,000 $48,497,000 [...] »
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The problem with most movies that revolve around a wedding is they pick one of two endings-- either the wedding happens, or it doesn't. Even the smartest ones fall into this trap. So forgive me for not having a whole lot of hope for The Wedding Doctor, a romantic comedy screenplay from newcomer Jonathan Abrams that Relativity Media just optioned. The Wedding Doctor, according to THR, is kind of like The Wedding Date or The Wedding Planner or those other movies about professional wedding somethings. Getting cold feet just a few days before her big day, a bride-to-be hires a "wedding doctor" to find out if her betrothed is the right man for her. But, oh no! The doctor decides he's the right guy for her instead! Casting will tell us everything we need to know about how this ends. If the groom is the bigger star, he's the right »

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