On a more serious note, Eichner said, “It isn’t about gay people suffering tragically, it’s about how hard it is to find another tolerable human being to go through life with.”
“It’s important that before we got one movie about a gay couple we got two movies about talking hedgehogs,” he said.Įichner added: “If you like hedgehogs you’ll love gay people.” He then skewered Hollywood for largely ignoring stories about same-sex couples. “Usually when I come to Vegas, I come to see gay icons perform, like Cher, Britney Spears and the Bellagio fountain,” he joked. Universal is hoping that audiences will continue to show love for romantic comedies with ‘Ticket to Paradise’ and Billy Eichner’s romantic comedy ‘Bros’.Įichner, who was on hand in Las Vegas, had the audience in stitches as he teed up the trailer for ‘Bros’, which is the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio. However, the genre has been showing signs of life after Paramount’s ‘The Lost City’, an amorous action-adventure starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, made a splash on the big screen this spring, grossing $100 million worldwide to date. Romantic comedies have mostly been brushed off as a dying breed, according to ‘Variety’. They also collaborated on director Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ and ‘Ocean’s Twelve’, reports ‘Variety’.
But after a stretch including but not limited to ‘Pretty Women’, ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’, ‘Runaway Bride’, ‘Notting Hill’, and ‘Eat Pray Love’, Roberts says she struggled to fall in love with a script – that is, until ‘Ticket to Paradise’.Īs a bonus, the film offered a chance for Roberts to reunite with Clooney for the first time since 2016’s heist thriller ‘Money Monster’. Julia Roberts, the patron saint of romantic comedies, hasn’t returned to the genre in nearly 20 years. Ol Parker, best known for ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ and ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’, directed ‘Ticket to Paradise’ and co-wrote the script with Daniel Pipski. The minute they land on the beach, she tells them: “You don’t have to do a whole Trojan Horse thing.” “We have to do a Trojan Horse to make her think we’re OK with this,” George Clooney tells his ex-wife.
They attempt to set aside their differences and call a truce in the name of scaring their daughter out of marrying a person who is essentially a stranger. “I’m including the recovery,” he replied back. “Worst 19 years of my life,” George Clooney says, to which Julia Roberts replies, “We were only married for five.”
The trailer, which hasn’t been released yet to the public, showcases several funny moments, including Clooney’s character drinking everyone on the island under the table and playing beer pong, which later prompts him to do the wave and the funky chicken.Īnother moment that tickled the funny bone of the crowd was Roberts and Clooney’s characters refused to sit next to each other on the plane and hurled insults until a flight attendant lets them switch. George Clooney and Julia Roberts play a divorced couple who fly to Bali to stop their lovestruck daughter (played by Kaitlyn Dever) from marrying a man she barely knows.