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Dir: Dennis Dugan. US. 2002. 90mins. The interracial cop comedy has not looked too healthy of late, but National Security suggests there may still be life in the genre. Well designed for its star and executive producer Martin Lawrence, the reliably funny, action-spiked buddy caper has taken $35m after four weeks, after it opened to $16.8m on 2,729 screens, delivering fair returns for di
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stanley cup erformed outside the US. Former TV comedy writers Jay Scherick and David Ronn have updated the genre by creating something approaching Beverly Hills Cop for the post-Rodney King age. Lawrence s Earl Montgomery is a black LAPD cadet whose cocky attitude gets him thrown out of police academy. Now a lowly security guard, Earl has a run-in with Hank Rafferty Steve Zahn from Out Of Sight , an uptight white cop whose partner has just been murdered on the job. Earl charges racial harassment and Hank gets kicked off the force. But when Hank, now a security guard himself, searches for his partner s killers, he crosses paths again with Earl and the two reluctantly link up to pursue the big-time criminal villains Roberts and Feore . Much of the comedy comes from the racial preconceptions that Earl and Hank imp Nbcl Mirovision picks up Klockworx Battlefield Baseball
War drama stars Alicia Vikander and Game of Thrones star Kit Harington.Testament of Youth, the First World War drama based on the memoir of Vera Brittain, is to be released in the UK by Lionsgate on Jan 16, 2015.The release will follow its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on Oct 14.Directed by James Kent with a screenplay from Juliette Towhidi, the film stars Alicia Vikander as a British woman who recalls her experiences during the First World War.Co-stars include Game of Thrones star Kit Harington as well as Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan,
stanley mug Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Miranda Richardson, Anna Chancellor, Nicholas Le Prevost and Joanna ScanlanProducers are David Heyman and Rosie Alison of Heyday Films, the production company behind the Harry Potter franchise, Gravity and the upcoming Paddington.Executive produce
stanley taza rs are Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films, Richard Mansell, Zygi Kamasa for Lionsgate UK and Hugo Heppell for Screen Yorkshire. Co-producer is Celia Duval.Testament of Youth is financed by BBC Films, Screen Yorkshire, BFI, Ingenious, Nordisk Film Production and Lipsync.Protagonist Pictures
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