Word: efron
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...Efron proved there is life after High School Musical. His body-swap comedy 17 Again will earn $24.1 million, according to studio estimates, to top the North American box-office for the first weekend in months when absolutely no one in the all-important 13-24 demographic was on Spring, Passover or Easter Break. (Hence the lowest winning total since late February...
...Efron, carrying a movie for the first time after his featured role in the 2007 Hairspray and his co-fronting of the High School Musical franchise last fall, is on his way to winning his movie-star baccalaureate. In 17 Again - a kind of Back to the Future without the DeLorean - he plays a despondent 37-year-old man magically returned to his 20-years-younger body. In other words, he goes from being Matthew Perry to being the screaming-teen hottie, not just of his youth, but of young America. Efron, 21, dances, plays basketball and does comedy, romance...
...nice and clean, with a little sex, propel Efron to a star movie career? His template might be Michael J. Fox, whose role in the Back to the Future films vaulted him from the Family Ties comedy series to lead roles in movies. Fox had a decent run for about a decade, but none of his projects, mostly light comedies, came close to matching the clout of the Robert Zemeckis trilogy, and he returned to TV, his more congenial medium, for six years of Spin City. Efron will have to radiate a little more danger if he doesn't want...
...sometimes it pays off. David Wain, director of the semibiblical farce The Ten (domestic gross: $769,726), was signed to helm the Paul Rudd hit Role Models (d.g.: $67 million). Burr Steers jumped from the 2002 comedy Igby Goes Down (d.g.: $2 million) to next week's Zac Efron vehicle 17 Again. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...Best part about Harvard: UC Elections, because I am a crazed sociopath. Worst part about Harvard: One time a huge football player was in front of me in the dining hall and he took ALL of the chicken quesadillas. It was terrible. Describe yourself in 3 words: Zac Efron look-a-like In 15 minutes you are: Being taken to school via the Quad shuttle. In 15 years you are: Being taken to “school” on an inner-city basketball court by street toughs. As their court-mandated coach, I’ll help them...