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work hard play hard work hard play hard work work work what do you get when you combine adolescent humor and a really hot guy? well, widely successful movie, that is. 22 jump start topped the weekend box office. it is sort of an old-fashioned movie without the special effects and super heroes and that s proving to be a hit. here s abc s dan harris. you never know. why are you going to put it there? it feels right. there s a grenade in my shorts! that s my [ bleep ]. what about that? that s my [ bleep ]. reporter: shakespeare this is not. bananas. shoes. quick sand. boo! reporter: while it may not be high art, it is highly profitable. 22 jump street raked in nearly $60 million according to estimates on its opening weekend. a live action, in other words, nonanimated, comedy has opened this strong since the hangover ....
Opened this strong since the hangover 2 in 2011, which pulled in more than $85 million. to find another comedy that pulled in north of $60 million, opening weekend, you have to go back to 2003 and bruce almighty. yo, what up? reporter: what s the secret? sequels tend to do well because audiences know what they re getting. but in this flick, experts say it is really all about the stars. jonah hill and channing tatum whose chemistry is palpable as they discussed in interviews on good morning america. might as well just be friends. and not partners. obviously i think it just makes it way more when you re making a comedy, if you are friends and laughing, then that will spill over into the work. spring break [ bleep ]. i love him, man. we just pretty much go and make fun of each other all day and they turn the cameras on, so it s really nice. ....
Welcome back, everybody. time for your monday version of the skinny here. mike tyson back in the news. he admitted the big role in the hangover a couple years ago. he was upset because they stole his tiger. he was pretty funny in the movie. he later admitted that back in 20 2010, you know, look, i did the movie to fund my drug habit. so he admitted that a couple years ago. now he is coming out going a little bit further in a recent interview. look, i was high on cocaine the entire time. he says i was a mess. i was overweight. i was a pig high on cocaine. of course, the hangover went on to become the highest grossing r rated comedy in the u.s. a huge success. he says maybe the crew knew, they had to know i was messed up. i couldn t talk. i had the cocaine talk. he said those guys are just beautiful people. they had my back. i appreciate that. and stuff. they asked me to come back in the hangover 2, what are you seeing in the movie. mike was funny. the whole movie was funny. appa ....
To $400,000. today the owner of the dodgers grabbed his mitt and started going to games. the comedy is so bad, for the space shuttle flight, three of the astronauts had to use priceline.com. today he welcomes howie men dell, golf commentator david fairty and joss stone, tonight show with jay leno at 10 klan 35 central time. it s time for your first look at entertainment news. in two weeks the big budget action film transformers: dark of the moon skyrocketed to box office history. taking first spot this weekend with $47 million, the blockbuster sequel became 2011 s top hit with a total so far of $26 1 million. that s shooting past the ....
In the picture. more details i m sure on that to follow. lightening things up significantly. yes, let s do that. let s talk about the hangover 2 tattoo. the tattoo lawsuit. much ado about a tattoo. indeed much ado. there is a lot of talk about how they were no longer going to be able to release in hangover 2 this tattoo on the dvd. this is the mike tyson-esque tattoo on ed helms there. i love ed helms. by the way, as a side note. victor put the tat on tyson in the first place, which was then duplicated in hangover 2. apparently there has been a settlement, the big s word. which is really what you want. cut the check. cut the check and let s get it over with so we can release the darn dvd. they were saying we re going to have to change it through computer, digitally changing it in the dvd, which would have been a nightmare. trying to do that. i thought there were some differences in the tattoo. but i m no lawyer. artistic license, i guess. there you go. ....