“The Other Woman” Tops Latest U.S. BOX-OFFICE
Women are on top this time in the latest U.S. box-office
weekend report as “The Other Woman” starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and
Leslie Mann nudged down Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” to 2nd
place.
The funny
and fashion-candy “The Other Woman” opened in the U.S. at $24.7 million over
the weekend . In “The Other Woman,” Cameron Diaz takes on the role of Carly, a
beautiful and successful lawyer who discovers that Mark (Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau), the charismatic man in her life, is married. Accidentally discovering that her man is
married to Kate (Leslie Mann), they still soon find out that the despicable
rogue they’re both is also involved with a third woman, Amber (Kate
Upton). Unexpectedly, the three develop
a close bond and team up to exact revenge on the three-timing cheat.
Producer
Julie Yorn had long been looking for a comedic vehicle for a strong female duo
or ensemble, when she latched on to an idea by screenwriter Melissa K.
Stack. Yorn explains why Stack was the
right person for the job: “Melissa had such a dry perspective and such
intelligence, and we fell in love with her.
I can count on one hand how many times this happens, but we got the
first thirty pages of Melissa’s script and I said, ‘We’re making this movie.’
The initial
conversations around the story began with Stack declaring what she didn’t want
to see: “I said, ‘I don’t want the wife to be a doormat or a sad sap,’” Stack
recalls. “‘I don’t want the other woman to just be a bitch.’ We talked about
the stereotypes you see sometimes, the so-called ‘movie math’ of women.”
Stack found
some interesting sources of inspiration: “I had been watching a lot of French
comedies, in which everybody’s sleeping with somebody who’s not their
spouse. In America, we have a more
Puritanical view of adultery and it was interesting to see a variety of French
comedies in which the characters were dealing with relationships as the complicated
subjects that they are. It’s messy but real, and not just about the ‘bad guys’
and the ‘good guys.’”
Similarly,
Yorn sees THE OTHER WOMAN as a relationship story in which the most important
connection turns out to be friendship, not romance: “The movie is about the love story between
these women and about them taking back their power.”
Directed by
Nick Cassavetes, “The Other Woman,” is at its heart a wonderfully upbeat comedy
that is all about the power of female friendship that will open in the
Philippines nationwide on May 7 from 20th Century Fox to be
distributed by Warner Bros.
Here is the official trailer of "The Other Woman"
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