Heading into the weekend, Five-Year Engagement was expected to come closest to beating Think Like a Man in North America. The pic reunites many of the principals from 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which opened to $17.7 million, including Segel. This time, he and Blunt play a couple enduring a long-term engagement.
Universal says its financial exposure on the R-rated comedy is limited, between a modest $30 million production spend and co-financing arrangement with Relativity Media.
Five-Year Engagement, which received a B- CinemaScore, skewed noticeably older, with 57 percent of the audience over 30. Females made up 64 percent.
“Although it opened slightly lower than expected, the movie will make up ground in ancillary markets,” Universal president of distribution Nikki Rocco said.
![Jason Segel says his new romantic comedy is “so good” because of his chemistry with co-star Emily Blunt.
The funnyman stars in The Five-Year Engagement, which has been getting a positive reception from critics. Jason believes the secret to a successful rom-com is finding two stars who are friends once the cameras stop rolling.
“It’s so good… Emily and I are actual friends. And I’m really good friends with [her husband] John [Krasinski], as well,” he told Vanity Fair. “And so it almost means more in the mundane scenes where we’re just talking. You can tell that we’re friends. And so it feels different than two randomers matched up.”
Jason believes a formula for a hit romantic comedy “goes wrong” when movie bosses try to “hook up two viable Hollywood stars to make money”.
The Five-Year Engagement follows the ups and downs of a couple who are planning to get married.
The movie also stars Rhys Ifans and Chris Pratt.
Jason loved working on the film, as he thinks it offers a realistic insight into romance.
“The theme of the movie is about how fluid relationships are. That over the course of something like five years, how our dynamic shifts, you meet new people — and it’s not just so you meet someone and you love them and then it’s over. Life is complicated,” he added. “And there are still other attractive people in the world. And you still fight. And you still deal with ‘Should we even be together?’ It’s not like it just ends because you meet ‘the one’. The one - the one is a myth.” [X]
I agree… I love to believe in ‘the one’ in my own little fantasy world, and it might happen like that for some people. But in reality, it’s all about work and compromise.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzzdu4NMG11r4d5clo1_500.jpg)
Jason Segel says his new romantic comedy is “so good” because of his chemistry with co-star Emily Blunt.
The funnyman stars in The Five-Year Engagement, which has been getting a positive reception from critics. Jason believes the secret to a successful rom-com is finding two stars who are friends once the cameras stop rolling.
“It’s so good… Emily and I are actual friends. And I’m really good friends with [her husband] John [Krasinski], as well,” he told Vanity Fair. “And so it almost means more in the mundane scenes where we’re just talking. You can tell that we’re friends. And so it feels different than two randomers matched up.”
Jason believes a formula for a hit romantic comedy “goes wrong” when movie bosses try to “hook up two viable Hollywood stars to make money”.
The Five-Year Engagement follows the ups and downs of a couple who are planning to get married.
The movie also stars Rhys Ifans and Chris Pratt.
Jason loved working on the film, as he thinks it offers a realistic insight into romance.
“The theme of the movie is about how fluid relationships are. That over the course of something like five years, how our dynamic shifts, you meet new people — and it’s not just so you meet someone and you love them and then it’s over. Life is complicated,” he added. “And there are still other attractive people in the world. And you still fight. And you still deal with ‘Should we even be together?’ It’s not like it just ends because you meet ‘the one’. The one - the one is a myth.” [X]
I agree… I love to believe in ‘the one’ in my own little fantasy world, and it might happen like that for some people. But in reality, it’s all about work and compromise.
Rush is the shit.
moments are fleeting. live in them.
