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	Maxwell Smart is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99. As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS' master plan--and each other--they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried and his sidekick Shtarker are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart--armed with nothi... (more)
Production Status :	In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres :	Comedy, Thriller and Adaptation
Running Time :	1 hr. 50 min.... (more)

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"Get Smart" not nearly smart enough
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Get Smart" the movie has precious little to do with "Get Smart" the iconic
TV series from the 1960s -- but then again, the movie has precious little to do with screen comedy, either.
This is a slapdash effort whose producers threw money and stunts onscreen instead of the satirical gags and one-liners that made the old spy spoof so memorable.
It's hard to see how this lame puppy will gain any boxoffice traction other than by waving the banner of star Steve Carell opening weekend. His younger fans, who wouldn't know "Get Smart" from "I Spy," might laugh at the overblown action swirling around their poker-faced hero, but are more likely to advise friends to wait for the DVD.
The film opens in Washington, D.C., where satirical remnants of the old TV series are visible -- like Carell's agent Maxwell Smart taking a musical march down a corridor of opening and closing sliding doors only to disappear down a telephone booth into the super-secret headquarters of his spy agency, CONTROL. The film then expands into a more James Bond second act set in and around Moscow and winds up in a stunt-laden finale in downtown Los Angeles.
The overriding factor here is that the filmmakers -- this would include ham-fisted director Peter Segal and the punchless writing team of Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember -- don't know what the joke is. Is this a spoof of an old TV series? Is this a spoof of Ian Fleming? Is this a Carell vehicle? No one seems to know, as familiar lines crop up in the wrong places and the timing of gags, so indelibly rendered in the series, misfires on nearly every occasion.
To his credit, Carell doesn't attempt to imitate the late Don Adams, the original Maxwell Smart. Carell's own brand of flustered dignity and disguised insecurity plays well enough. Carell's Max is less an inept spy who bumbles his way to success than an analyst-wonk out of his depth in the field.
Max's boss, CONTROL's Chief, is played by Alan Arkin, who manages to retain his dignity, while Max's co-agent and love interest, Agent 99, is Anne Hathaway, who manages to retain her beauty. She's a martial-arts babe rather than an adoring co-worker, as Barbara Feldon originally played the role, but that probably suits the times.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a good lock on the straight-faced comedy required for a "Get Smart" movie as he plays CONTROL's superstar, Agent 23. The villains from the evil criminal organization KAOS, a distracted Terence Stamp and portly "Borat" survivor Ken Davitian, seem barely interested in the proceedings.
What passes for a plot is a mishmash of old spy movies, from various Bond titles to a "Three Days of the Condor" break-in at CONTROL headquarters to a conspiracy to set off a bomb in Los Angeles where the president (James Caan) is attending a concert, evoking memories of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" and "In the Line of Fire." Not a lot of laughs there, though.
The original series was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and it's a shame their only contribution here is as "consultants." Do you think they're too old to write a "Get Smart" script? No, we don't think so, either.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
...(more) - 06 19 2008 6:19AM
'Get Smart' maxes out weekend with $38.7M debut
LOS ANGELES - Audiences put "Get Smart" under surveillance as the spy comedy starring Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway debuted at No
. 1 over the weekend with $38.7 million.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC:
1. "Get Smart," Warner Bros., $38,683,480, 3,911 locations, $9,891 average, $38,683,480, one week.
2. "The Incredible Hulk," Universal, $22,136,060, 3,508 locations, $6,310 average, $97,055,430, two weeks.
3. "Kung Fu Panda," Paramount, $21,934,716, 4,053 locations, $5,412 average, $155,830,875, three weeks.
4. "The Love Guru," Paramount, $13,907,130, 3,012 locations, $4,617 average, $13,907,130, one week.
5. "The Happening," Fox, $10,482,146, 2,986 locations, $3,510 average, $50,749,495, two weeks.
6. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," Paramount, $8,540,313, 3,171 locations, $2,693 average, $290,961,044, five weeks.
7. "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," Sony, $7,453,215, 3,278 locations, $2,274 average, $84,308,418, three weeks.
8. "Sex and the City," Warner Bros, $6,532,394, 2,442 locations, $2,675 average, $132,452,769, four weeks.
9. "Iron Man," Paramount, $4,030,272, 1,912 locations, $2,108 average, $304,816,141, eight weeks.
10. "The Strangers," Universal, $2,122,410, 1,578 locations, $1,345 average, $49,759,735, four weeks.
11. "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," Disney, $1,790,715, 1,462 locations, $1,225 average, $135,549,086, six weeks.
12. "What Happens in Vegas," Fox, $791,628, 708 locations, $1,118 average, $77,543,162, seven weeks.
13. "Mongol," Picturehouse, $778,963, 94 locations, $8,287 average, $1,149,760, three weeks.
14. "The Visitor," Overture Films, $383,584, 224 locations, $1,712 average, $7,192,751, 11 weeks.
15. "Baby Mama," Universal, $247,160, 296 locations, $835 average, $59,290,980, nine weeks.
16. "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," Picturehouse, $220,297, 5 locations, $44,059 average, $220,297, one week.
17. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," Universal, $202,540, 247 locations, $820 average, $62,483,490, 10 weeks.
18. "Made of Honor," Sony, $166,972, 223 locations, $749 average, $45,744,707, eight weeks.
19. "Speed Racer," Warner Bros., $152,674, 151 locations, $1,011 average, $42,737,927, seven weeks.
20. "Nim's Island," Fox, $150,881, 250 locations, $604 average, $46,970,329, 12 weeks.
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Universal Pictures, Focus Features and Rogue Pictures are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric Co.; Sony Pictures, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; DreamWorks, Paramount and Paramount Classics are divisions of Viacom Inc.; Disney's parent is The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is a division of The Walt Disney Co.; 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Fox Atomic are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros., New Line, Warner Independent and Picturehouse are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a consortium of Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Sony Corp., Comcast Corp., DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Quadrangle Group; Lionsgate is owned by Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.; IFC Films is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.
...(more) - 06 24 2008 8:24PM
Get Smart a Hit; Love Guru a Nude Bomb
Los Angeles (E! Online) - The Incredible Hulk wasn't exactly Hulk, which was good. The Love Guru was vaguely Austin Powers: In
ternational Man of Mystery, which wasn't.
And Get Smart, which was absolutely not The Nude Bomb, was No. 1.
The weekend box office did not lack for storylines or dollars, with the Steve Carell spy comedy leading the way with $39.2 million, according to Exhibitor Relations estimates today.
Get Smart's three-day take was nearly three times what the first big-screen crack at the sitcom classic grossed during its entire run. Not that taking out the bomb that was the 1980s The Nude Bomb, which starred original Agent 86 Don Adams, was either the plan or an accomplishment.
More to the point, Get Smart goes down as the biggest opener of Carell's still fledgling leading-man career, and helps mitigate the disappointment of his last live-action comedy, Evan Almighty.
Elsewhere, The Incredible Hulk, last weekend's No. 1, fell to third with $21.6 million. But it retained bragging rights over Ang Lee's Hulk by falling "only" 61 percent in its second weekend, rather than the 70 percent plunge suffered by the 2003 film.
As for The Love Guru: It settled for fourth place and $14 million, two stats unbecoming a film that was promoted far and wide—and uncomfortably on the season finale of American Idol.
For star Mike Myers, the debut wasn't far off from the modest $9 million that his first Austin Powers grossed in its opening weekend. Eleven years ago. Before the spoof franchise took off on home video. Before Myers took off as a comedy brand name.
On the upside of a disappointing weekend, The Love Guru did outgross Get Smart, Again! Which was actually a TV movie. And therefore didn't gross anything.
In any case, it should definitely surpass The Nude Bomb any day now. Which really wasn't the plan. And honestly won't be an accomplishment.
Drilling down through the standings:
  • Fact No. 1: In The Incredible Hulk's first weekend, 82 percent of the audience was comprised of people who'd seen Ang Lee's Hulk. Fact No. 2: After two weekends, the two films have nearly identical cumulative grosses, with Lee's holding the slight edge, $100.6 million to $96.5 million. Possible conclusion: There are only so many Hulk fans to go around. For all the drubbing that Lee's Hulk took over its box office performance, The Incredible Hulk is doing almost exactly the same, except it's doing it slightly smaller.   • Kung Fu Panda has strong, stubby legs. In its third weekend, the CGI comedy was only down 35 percent from the previous weekend. It held on to second place with $21.7 million, bringing its overall take to $155.6 million.   • In its second weekend, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening (fifth place, $10 million; $50.3 million overall) suffered a Hulk-like fall, with ticket sales down 67 percent.
  • Iron Man (ninth place, $4 million), indeed. The comic book movie passed the $300 million mark overall. It currently stands at $304.8 million.   • Tween girls do not live by Camp Rock alone. Those with access to Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, the new Abigail Breslin movie based on the popular doll line, helped it to a huge little opening weekend. Debuting at five theaters, the film grossed $222,697 for a per-screen average of $44,539. (Get Smart, by comparison, made $10,012 off each of its screens.)   • Prince Caspian ought to write Speed Racer a thank-you note for serving as the pre-Love Guru poster man for summer disappointments. Were it not for Speed Racer's spectacular crash at the box office, more attention might be paid to the washout that has been the Chronicles of Narnia sequel. In its sixth weekend, the $200 million movie grossed $1.7 million, fell out of the Top 10 and stood at $135.5 million overall.   • In its sixth weekend, per Box Office Mojo stats, the first Narnia movie, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, finished fourth, grossed $10.1 million and stood at $261.3 million overall. Here's a recap of the top-grossing weekend films, based on Friday-Sunday estimates compiled by Exhibitor Relations:
  • Get Smart, $39.2 million   • Kung Fu Panda, $21.7 million   • The Incredible Hulk, $21.6 million   • The Love Guru, $14 million   • The Happening, $10 million   • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $8.4 million   • You Don't Mess With the Zohan, $7.2 million   • Sex and the City, $6.5 million   • Iron Man, $4 million   • The Strangers, $1.9 million
...(more) - 06 23 2008 7:04PM

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