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...summer films shows it could go either way. The Devil Wears Prada debuted in June of 2006 with $27 million opening weekend - on its way to a considerable $124 million grand total domestically. But just a few weeks ago, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took center stage in Baby Mama, a widely hyped comedy that opened with a respectable-but-less-than-stellar $17 million opening weekend...
...Rival Studio Executive (given anonymity so he/she could speak freely) It's not going to do Iron Man kind of numbers, or Prince Caspian numbers, but it should do every bit as well as Baby Mama, which opened with $17 million, or Knocked Up, which opened with around $30 million. I think it's the kind of movie that if it ends up getting well reviewed, it will probably beat the $25 million mark. This is the kind of audience that does read reviews, and if it ends up getting panned by critics who say that it doesn't deliver...
...project. For many, photography turned from a pastime into an income-earner - a huge advantage in a country with 40% unemployment. Mohammed Dahir Nur, 23, says he met Wong when he was 14, after a broken leg sidelined him from Mathare's youth football teams. "We called her 'Mama Lana' because she turned everybody's life around," he says. "I would not have known what to do in life." He now works as a freelance celebrity photographer in London, where he is studying broadcasting and filmmaking at the University of the Arts. Njuguna is now a news photographer...
...Except for the natural nine-month dramatic arc (which is what attracts writers to the pregnancy plot), this is prime-time sitcom fodder. Oscar and Felix; Kate and Angie. I?m not making claims that Baby Mama transcends the format?s routine progressions - opposites not only attract, they learn from each other - only that, within these conventions, the movie is smart, funny and beguiling. Hitting familiar buttons isn?t a sin if the exercise is carried off expertly, as it is here. And the two stars, deprived of the opportunity for girlish giggling they took undue advantage of as SNL?...
...course Baby Mama isn?t his movie. It?s a chick flick, with the emphasis on the hatching. Comedies almost always run out of gas toward the end; the writer is like a parent on Christmas Eve, desperately wrapping up his presents. But this movie finds one last spurt to send the characters and the audience out happy. The closing-credits song, the Ronettes? ?Be My Baby,? never seemed more welcome or appropriate. For this is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across...