Jay Roach Articles

Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Game Change Julianne Moore (not Tina Fey?) as Sarah Palin, the bespectacled creature from the far corners of the world that the Republican party unleashed during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. At that time, Palin's Bridge to Nowhere almost took her to the vice-presidency of the United States; now four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore brings her to life in [...]

Barbra Streisand, Little Fockers A sequel to Jay Roach's Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers (2004), Paul Weitz's widely panned comedy Little Fockers grossed $34.01m at the North American box office this Christmas weekend (Dec. 24-26), according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. The $100m Universal release starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Polo, [...]

Jay Roach, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell on the Dinner for Schmucks set STEP UP 3-D Suffers Steep Friday-Saturday Drop: Box Office At no. 4 this weekend at the US/Canada box office, Angelina Jolie's spy thriller Salt collected $11.1m (-43%), according to Box Office Mojo. Total to date: $91.9m. Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks, starring Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, was down three spots, scoring $10.5m [...]

Steve Carell, Paul Rudd in Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks INCEPTION Tops Third Consecutive Weekend: Box Office After topping the North American box office on Friday, Jay Roach's Dinner for Schmucks, a remake of Francis Veber's 1998 French hit The Dinner Game, fell behind Christopher Nolan's Inception on both Saturday and Sunday. Ultimately, Dinner for Schmucks ended up in second place for the weekend, with [...]