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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Seth MacFarlane on the Surprising Success of The Naked Gun · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It used to be
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Speaker 1: that if you took a trip to your local cineplex,
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Speaker 1: there'd be just as many comedies on screen as there
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Speaker 1: are other genres. But over the last decade, comedies essentially
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Speaker 1: evaporated at the theater, with almost all debuting on streamers instead.
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Speaker 1: But that changed with the recent reboot of The Naked Gun,
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Speaker 1: and so did the box office expectations. It's earned more
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Speaker 1: than fifty six million dollars in counting. The movie has
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Speaker 1: performed well, and it proved it has to empower a
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Speaker 1: rarity in this era, continued to rake in money based
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Speaker 1: on very strong word of mouth, and Seth MacFarland, who
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Speaker 1: produced A Naked Gun, thinks it sends a clear message
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Speaker 1: to Hollywood execs, telling you, the Hollywood Reporter, take risks,
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Speaker 1: make movies that aren't just reboots, though ironically this one is.
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Speaker 1: The lesson is that people want somebody that's outside the
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Speaker 1: usual fare. We're just so deluged with superhero movies at
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Speaker 1: this point. It's like Bill Murray and Groundhog Day, and
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Speaker 1: he wakes up on that last morning and says, anything
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Speaker 1: different is good. People just want a little more variety
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Speaker 1: on their plate. The naked gun in theaters, that's direct
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Speaker 1: from Hollywood.