Dustin Hoffman is set to play Ben Stiller's father in the sequel.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/variety/20040121/va_ne_al/hoffman_preps_to__meet_the_fockers_1
this is one case where I think Mac should be redirected. You know what, I'm a redirect that mother right now
EDIT: I DID IT WHAT A RUSH
Quote from: Slorgthis is one case where I think Mac should be redirected. You know what, I'm a redirect that mother right now
EDIT: I DID IT WHAT A RUSH
Mac posted the news first, he posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004
2:09 am (http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?p=112482#112482), Myxomatosis did it on Wed Jan 21, 2004
3:43 pm.
My life is a lie
Quote from: SlorgMy life is a lie
Will I always live my life in Mac's shadow? Will I have to settle for second best when it comes to breaking film news?
I guess I will..
:yabbse-wink:
Barbra Streisand to be a 'Focker'?
Actress reportedly could play Stiller's mom in 'Meet the Parents' sequel
NEW YORK - Barbra Streisand is reading the script for "Meet the Fockers," the sequel to 2000's "Meet the Parents," her husband, James Brolin, said in an interview on the syndicated "Access Hollywood" entertainment TV show.
"I know she is reading it," said Brolin, in an interview to air Monday. Excerpts were released in advance.
Streisand's participation as Ben Stiller's mother would mark a return to film for the 61-year-old singer-actress after an eight-year hiatus. She starred in 1996's "The Mirror Has Two Faces."
"Meet the Parents" starred Stiller as Greg Focker, Teri Polo as Stiller's fiancee, and Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner as Polo's parents. They are slated to return for the sequel.
As reported by MacGuffin in the ENVY thread, "At the premiere of Along Came Polly, Stiller told USA Today, "My dream is Barbra Streisand."" There's a good chance this dream comes true.
Barbra Streisand Confirmed for Meet the Fockers
Source: Variety
Barbra Streisand is in final talks to join Dustin Hoffman as the parents of Ben Stiller's character in Universal's Meet the Fockers, set to go into production later this month. The film, which Jay Roach is directing, is slated for a Dec. 22 release.
Variety says that while 2000's Meet the Parents centered on Stiller's eager-to-please character trying to win approval of his girlfriend's dad, the tightly wound ex-spook Jack Byrnes played by Robert De Niro, the sequel follows the clash between the Byrnes and the free-to-be-you-and-me Fockers.
Streisand's last onscreen appearance was eight years ago in romantic comedy The Mirror Has Two Faces, which she directed and produced.
cool
That's wonderful to hear
No it's not. :yabbse-cry:
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaNo it's not. :yabbse-cry:
:?: :?: :?:
Streisand, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard. That's all I'm saying.
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaStreisand, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard. That's all I'm saying.
Oh, but it shall be gold.
Seriously, if they don't utilize De Niro, Hoffman, and Streisand, there is one big problem.
This exchange of dialogue, I'm not really sure:
"You talkin' to me, Focker? Are you talkin' to me?"
"Yes I'm talkin' to you. Definitely, definitely talking to you."
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaStreisand, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard. That's all I'm saying.
To me as well. It's mean to say but she's one of the few people that I really have trouble looking at.
i hate her too, and have only seen her in one movie What's Up, Doc? (where she was actually not bad) but at the same time, for this role, i think she will be perfect.
Quote from: OnomatopoeiaStreisand, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard. That's all I'm saying.
You're being much too kind.
That's a train wreck waiting to happen as the first movie was just a collection of I Love Lucy gags strung together. It was passable but Owen Wilson was the best thing in the movie ("If you're gonna follow in someone's footsteps, who better than Christ?" :lol: ).
Maybe after Analyze That and the bomb that The Whole Ten Yards is destined to become, they'll have better luck.
Dustin, You Putz!
If you were making a list of the most difficult people in Hollywood, chances are Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand would both be on it.
Both Hoffman and Streisand are now also working together in Meet the Fockers, which just started filming here in LA. It's the sequel to Meet the Parents and also stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, and Blythe Danner.
According to a confidant working on the very closed set, both Hoffman and Streisand have been fairly well behaved... for Hoffman and Streisand. It's also the first time Streisand has appeared in a film that she hasn't directed in more than seventeen years.
Hoffman has needled writer/director Jay Roach relentlessly about small changes in the script, which Roach has largely ignored, with producing studio Universal's support.
Barbra has mostly been in her "little waif girl" mode, extremely cooperative and unctuous to Roach. Those who have worked with her know Barbra has three distinct personalities: 1) Godzilla with a good manicure; 2) the bubbling bubeleh, and 3) the little waif girl. If you want to see the third personality, watch the "Papa Can You Hear Me?" segment of Yentl, if you're a hearty soul.
Populist Streisand even insisted everyone on the set call her Barbra and not "Miss Streisand." When AD Josh King made the mistake of calling her "Barb," however, the creature awakened. "Don't call me that!" Streisand snarled.
Hoffman then made a point to refer to Streisand as "Barb" continuously thereafter. Is Barb in this shot? Should I stand next to Barb? What's my line after Barb's?
Later, after a lunch break, Streisand recoiled in horror when she saw the camera crew all sporting "Bush 2004" buttons. Withering under the diva's stare, DP John Schwartzman admitted sheepishly that Hoffman had put them up to the stunt and passed out the buttons.
At that point, Streisand wheeled around to Hoffman and bellowed, "Dustin, you putz!" and stormed off the set.
Robert De Niro quickly played peacemaker and brought Barbra back a few minutes later. Hoffman apologized to Streisand and said he was only trying to help her get into character -- Streisand and Hoffman play Stiller's viciously feuding parents in the sequel.
I liked that alot MacGuffin. Did you...?
Quote from: coffeebeetleI liked that alot MacGuffin. Did you...?
Nope. It's a true story. It was in the Barbra-Archives.com and People.com
Cast family photo:
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.usatoday.com%2Flife%2F_photos%2F2004%2F2004-05%2F25-fockers-inside.jpg&hash=7bb5fd8fc12e4f008c8c90802c8b71584e46bb24)
I don't know if i'll be able to watch this. I can only stomach Streisands face for so long. What an awful looking human being.
what's up with Terri Polo and her 7th grade bangs?
it's a prequel
TEASER TRAILER:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/meet_the_fockers/
this looks like a dharma and greg movie, hopefully it will be funnier than the teaser. i thought the first one was hilarious.
The new Trailer is hilarious. Jack captaining a huge RV to the sounds of Puff the magic dragon.
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/aol/us/moviefone/movies/2004/meetthefockers_017049/meetthefockers_trlr_02_dl.mov
it's not NOT funny, but didn't they do all of that on Friends already?
Pete, you're wrong, it IS NOT funny.
This looks amazingly bad.
definately not NOT amazingly bad.
This isn't amazingly bad, but it's not too great, or even good. Streisand was the best part (I don't have a problem with her, as other people here seem to); she was hilarious, Hoffman was pretty good and DeNiro did his schtick. So did Ben Stiller, and that is one schtick I'm quickly growing very sick of. I'm also sick of: dogs humping people's legs and cute babies. Which is what most of the jokes in this film seem to revolve around.
Anyway, I chuckled frequently but never laughed, and checked the time on my cell phone a lot. I loved the first one, and this doesn't hold half a candle to it.
Quote from: GhostboyI'm also sick of: dogs humping people's legs and cute babies.
Are you kidding!? Dogs humping cute babies will never get old!
Quote from: RegularKarateAre you kidding!? Dogs humping cute babies will never get old!
Neither will cute babies humping dogs' legs!
Quote from: GhostboySo did Ben Stiller, and that is one schtick I'm quickly growing very sick of.
He continues to soar down the tubes. I think this one may send him right out the poop shoot.
It was pretty good for a sequel but Stiller needs to find more dramatic roles.
This was bad?
NO!
Yer kidding me..
:yabbse-undecided:
Quote from: GhostboyThis isn't amazingly bad, but it's not too great, or even good. Streisand was the best part (I don't have a problem with her, as other people here seem to); she was hilarious, Hoffman was pretty good and DeNiro did his schtick. So did Ben Stiller, and that is one schtick I'm quickly growing very sick of. I'm also sick of: dogs humping people's legs and cute babies. Which is what most of the jokes in this film seem to revolve around.
Anyway, I chuckled frequently but never laughed, and checked the time on my cell phone a lot. I loved the first one, and this doesn't hold half a candle to it.
This pretty much describes how I feel about the movie. Streisand IS great in this movie and was the only person that I forgot was a Big-Name while watching it. She played the part really well.
I was always aware that Hoffman was Hoffman, but I was aware that it was Hoffman having tons of fun, and that allowed me to have fun with his character.
DeNiro did his schtick, right. His sudden transformation at the end is terrible, though. Blythe Danner was boring (not her fault, the character is simply underwritten--she's the parent that no one cares about).
The worst part by far was the little baby. I hated that baby. Babies in movies SUCK (usually). Terrible stuff here. Whoever first suggested the idea of randomly adding a baby into the mix, his or her idiocy is only surpassed by those who thought it was a good idea.
Anyway, it's a so so movie. Hoffman and Streisand are really the two stars of the movie, the only funny part of the movie, and, surprisingly, the most realistic-feeling part of the movie.
Quote from: matt35mmthe only funny part of the movie, and, surprisingly, the most realistic-feeling part of the movie.
Not sure why that's surprising.. typically 'realistic-feeling' things are funnier than anything else.
Quote from: cinephileQuote from: matt35mmthe only funny part of the movie, and, surprisingly, the most realistic-feeling part of the movie.
Not sure why that's surprising.. typically 'realistic-feeling' things are funnier than anything else.
Well the commercials make Hoffman and Streisand look very over-the-top while DeNiro and Danner are more toned down. Yet, it's DeNiro and Danner than come off as caricactures while Hoffman and Streisand are actually more fully developed and more believeable as a family. That part surprised me because I expected Hoffman and Streisand to be the caricatures in this movie.
I saw this.
It wasn't funny.
I didn't laugh once.
My mom thinks I should lighten up. :yabbse-undecided:
Quote from: matt35mmYet, it's DeNiro and Danner than come off as caricactures
Thank you!
I felt horrible about DeNiro doing an impersonation of his character from
Parents.
Hoffman and Streisand inspired a smile or two, but nothing more.
I loved the first one and so I really wanted to like this one, but couldn't.
It's "cute," I suppose, but I'd be hard pressed to call it "good".
I didn't laugh much either...at all. I grinned a few times (but not because of that annoying baby they kept using for cute humor). I liked the casting of Hoffman and Streisand but I wish they had better material to work with. SO much of the humor is based on either bathroom or sexual jokes where I was mostly cringing or just wondering what the filmmakers were thinking. With the cast and overall idea for the movie, they could've come up with something better than this.
'Fockers' Biggest Comedy Box-Office Hit Ever
Thanks in large part to record overseas ticket sales of $221 million, Meet the Fockers, starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Barbra Streisand, has become the most successful live-action comedy in history, grossing $498 million overall, the Los Angeles Times reported today (Thursday). The newspaper observed that the take was particularly remarkable given Hollywood's long-standing axiom that "comedies don't travel overseas, except those of the animated variety."
and now i kill myself.
Teri Polo set for third 'Fockers' film
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Polo is set to reprise her role as Ben Stiller's wife in Meet the Little Focker, the third installment of the movie franchise. "I think he cast me in the role because I play a great straight man," she said. "Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera."
Polo worked with Robert DeNiro in the 2004 sequel, Meet the Fockers, and in 2000 in the original Meet the Parents.
"I literally glued myself to his side because I didn't know if I ever was going to get this opportunity again," she said of their collaboration. "I asked him what was more difficult — comedy or drama — and it surprised me when he said it's basically the same thing. It's all in the way you deliver the line."
Polo, a 37-year-old divorced mother of a young son, can next be seen playing a cynical divorce attorney who finds love with her legal opposition in Love is a Four Letter Word, airing Saturday on the Hallmark Channel.
Love and marriage are recurring themes for Polo's projects this year. She plays one of three sisters running a wedding-planning business on the upcoming Fox series The Wedding Bells, written by David E. Kelley.
More 'Fockers' for Universal
Tribeca deal paves way for third movie
Source: Variety
Universal Pictures has reupped Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal's Gotham-based Tribeca Prods. for another two years and will get busy on developing "Little Fockers," the third installment of what has become one of Universal's most lucrative franchises.
Producers are working with Jay Roach, who directed both "Meet the Parents" and "Meet the Fockers," to hatch the third pic.
Hope is to bring back not only Ben Stiller, De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, but also Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand. The effort makes strong financial sense: "Meet the Parents" grossed $330 million worldwide, "Meet the Fockers" $515 million.
Script will be written by Larry Stuckey, Roach's former assistant who collaborated with the director on several scripts, including a remake of "Elling" at Fox and an untitled outsourcing comedy at Universal.
For Universal, the Tribeca deal is the second overall pact to be renewed after the studio brought Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner back into the fold. Studio is also eager to reup Imagine partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, whose deal expires at the end of the year.
De Niro and Rosenthal are coming off "The Good Shepherd," the De Niro-directed CIA drama that Universal distributed through its output deal with financier-producer Morgan Creek."Tribeca has been responsible for such a diverse group of successful movies, and both Jane and Bob have a real love for film that shows in everything they've done with us," said U president of production Donna Langley. "This marks eight years that Tribeca has had a deal at Universal, and we look forward to continuing this very fruitful partnership."