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‘War of the Worlds’ Producer Defends Ice Cube Film After Bad Reviews

‘War of the Worlds’ Producer Defends Ice Cube Film After Bad Reviews

A creative voice behind last year’s Ice Cube film War of the Worlds is offering his thoughts about the movie’s inauspicious critical response. Timur Bekmambetov, the filmmaker known for 2008’s Wanted and this year’s Chris Pratt-led Mercy, took part in a Reddit AMA on Thursday to promote LifeHack, which he produced. Focusing on a crypto heist, director Ronan Corrigan’s thriller hits theaters next week after premiering last year at SXSW. Among the questions posed to Bekmambetov were multiple queries about him having produced War of the Worlds, which hit Prime Video in July and loosely adapted H.G. Wells’ classic sci-fi novel about an alien invasion. Starring Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg, director Rich Lee’s movie was critically eviscerated and currently holds a meager 4 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also collected five of the six Razzie Awards for which it was nominated, including the dubious distinction of the year’s worst picture. In response to a question about how he felt to have worked on the project, Bekmambetov wrote, “The criticism of …

Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s Sons Recreate Comedy Friday for L.A. Rams

Ice Cube and Chris Tucker’s Sons Recreate Comedy Friday for L.A. Rams

The Los Angeles Rams drafted the sons of Ice Cube and Chris Tucker to recreate their famous father’s classic comedy Friday. O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Destin Tucker headline the reimagined take, titled Thursday, starring alongside Terry Crews, YG, Kevin Dotson, Jared Verse, Byron Young and Big Boy as part of the team’s newest installment of its draft campaign. It dropped today ahead of the NFL Draft next week on all Rams digital and social platforms. Friday, directed by F. Gary Gray from a script by Cube and DJ Pooh, came out in 1995 from New Line Cinema. It starred Cube as Craig and Tucker as Smokey, two friends who must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won’t be a Saturday. Agency partners at TBWA\Chiat\Day Los Angeles worked with the Rams to develop an reimagined version for the draft, one that “celebrates the cultural impact” of Friday in the communities where Rams fans live. They even filmed at the original Friday house located in the West Athens neighborhood southeast of SoFi …

Ice Cube, Kevin Hart in Talks to Return Ride Along 3

Ice Cube, Kevin Hart in Talks to Return Ride Along 3

After a decade of development, Ride Along 3 is starting to see renewed momentum. Daniel Gold, who was a writer on the Netflix series Workin’ Moms, is set to write a new take on the buddy cop story, with Kevin Hart and Ice Cube in talks to return for the Universal project. Also in talks to return is director Tim Story and producer Will Packer, the latter of whom is releasing the rom-com You, Me & Tuscany with the studio this weekend. Universal had no comment on the potential project. Hart and Ice Cube star in the film series as brothers-in-laws who happen to both work in law enforcement, each with drastically different levels of expertise, who often end up in the middle of Florida’s various crime underworlds. It has been ten years since the last Ride Along movie hit theaters. The first Ride Along, out in 2014, grossed over $130 million at the domestic box office, while the second installment earned over $90 million in 2016, making it an overall profitable mid-budget franchise for …