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Funny People Gets Last Laugh?

Sun., Aug. 2, 2009 5:25 PM PDT by Joal Ryan

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If you think Funny People was tough to figure out as a movie—Is it a comedy? Is it a drama?—try making sense of its box office debut.

The Judd Apatow-directed, Adam Sandler-fronted hybrid grossed $23.4 million Friday-Sunday, per estimates, enough to top the weekend standings.

And while the take reigned over Reign Over Me, Spanglish and Sandler's other uncomic pieces, it didn't really stack up, dollar for dollar, with Apatow's previous films.

Crunching the numbers:

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Sandler, Crowe, Cusack, Wahlberg Add Star Power to Walk of Fame

Thu., Jun. 18, 2009 6:32 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

John Cusack, Adam Sandle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Russel Crowe, Star

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A new batch of stars has aligned to light up Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce today unveiled its Class of 2010, the 28 lucky A-listers from film, TV, music and theater whose names will be memorialized on the tourist-trap infamous row sometime next year.

The honorees were selected from more than 200 nominations and have the added distinction of receiving their stars during the Walk of Fame's 50th Anniversary year.

Leading the way in the motion picture category are Adam Sandler, Russell Crowe, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, James Cameron, Mark Wahlberg, and a couple of Disney's go-to composers, Alan Menken and Randy Newman.

Those being honored for services rendered on the small screen are Jon Cryer, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Waterston, Bill Maher, sportscaster Chris Berman and O.G. Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves.

The recording roundup includes Van Morrison, Chaka Khan, Alan Jackson, Ringo Starr, ZZ Top, the Funk Brothers, Bryan Adams, Marco Antonio Solis and next year's sole posthumous honoree, Roy Orbison.

Only two acts made the cut for the live performance/theater category: Andrea Bocelli and Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberte.

No dates have yet been scheduled for the ceremonies.

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Adam Sandler Is a Big Baby

Wed., Jun. 17, 2009 8:06 AM PDT by Peter Gicas

George Simmons in "Re-Do" from Justin Long

Adam Sandler has made a name for himself often playing adults who act like children. Well, now he's gone and taken it one baby step further.

In a creative effort to get butts into theater seats when the film Funny People opens July 31, a movie-within-a-movie-type clip has just been released. Let us quickly explain.

In Funny People, Sandler plays comic George Simmons, who has made his fair share of less-than-stellar cinema. One example, Re-Do, costarring Justin Long, is about a lawyer whose wish to be young again has gone horribly wrong.

Here's one Sandler, er, Simmons flick where we wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

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Adam Sandler Pronounced a Father of Two

Tue., Nov. 11, 2008 4:38 PM PST by Natalie Finn

Adam Sandler, Jacqueline Sandler, Sadie Madison Sandler

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Adam Sandler brushed up on his Bedtime Stories just in time.

The funnyman and his wife, Jackie, welcomed their second daughter together last week.

"Jackie and Adam had a beautiful baby girl, Sunny Madeline, on November 2. Everyone is happy and healthy," read a statement on Sandler's website.

Sunny joins sister Sadie, 2, in the Sandler brood.

Sandler, 42, and Jackie, 34, tied the knot in 2003. The You Don't Mess With the Zohan star joked about his wife's pregnancy during a Tonight Show appearance earlier this year, telling Jay Leno how he eloquently explained the impending arrival to Sadie.

"'[Mommy] just has something growing in her that's eventually gonna shoot out her vagina and take half your toys,'" Sandler quipped.

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A-List Secrets: Hollywood's (Unlikely) Hot Dog

Thu., Sep. 11, 2008 6:01 AM PDT by Leslie Gornstein

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Beat Ben @ the Box Office: Can Adam Slay 'Em?

Fri., Jun. 6, 2008 12:39 PM PDT by Ben Lyons

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Sandler Breaks a Funny Bone

Mon., Mar. 31, 2008 7:41 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

Maybe golf is more Adam Sandler's speed after all.

The 41-year-old funnyman is on the mend after breaking his ankle while playing basketball this weekend, according to a statement issued Monday by his rep.

Sandler's team still won the game, however, and—better yet—the injury won't affect production on his new comedy, Bedtime Stories, in which he plays a hotel handyman whose fantastical bedtime stories that he tells to his niece and nephew start coming true.

Only, unlike M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, Sandler's take on the nighttime-tales-come-alive will be intentionally funny. His castmates include Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce and Lucy Lawless.

Meanwhile, previews are starting to trickle out for Sandler's next big-screen escapade from his Happy Madison Productions, the fish-out-of-water comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Sandler stars as an Israeli secret agent who fakes his own death so he can start anew as a New York hairdresser.

The film hits theaters June 6.