{"id":545386,"date":"2026-03-17T03:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T03:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:46:12","slug":"vince-vaughn-on-wane-of-comedy-movies-mike-nick-nick-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/545386\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Vaughn On Wane Of Comedy Movies, ‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhere did all the big-screen comedies go? <\/p>\n

Before the major studios pulled back on their greenlights of feature comedies, Vince Vaughn was an integral part of their success, his largely comedy-driven filmography minting $3.7 billion at the global box office.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[The motion picture business] is far more corporate and far more risk-averse than it ever was,\u201d the star of Hulu\/20th Century Studios\u2019 Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice tells us at the Deadline Studio @ SXSW. \u201cAnd they\u2019re working off these rules for all the reasons that don\u2019t really translate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe adds: \u201cLook at stand-up comedy. People are packing into Madison Square Garden. They want that live experience if it feels fun and authentic. I think however they got there, we lost a little bit of what all these music and movies were, which is the wrong business. It was always young people, in the culture, getting a chance to tell stories.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019d love to see some people under 30 get a camera in their hand and be left alone, whether it\u2019s a comedy or anything that they\u2019re interested in. And there was always a certain amount of swings of that type that the industry would take that they just don\u2019t take anymore,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: SXSW 2026: All Of Deadline\u2019s Movie Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd then the issue becomes [that] you don\u2019t have the win for independent films like we did in the \u201990s. There was places you could release them, and that would buy them. And now you got a lot of really good movies made that do well at the festivals. But there\u2019s not really the economics of it, because there\u2019s only a couple streamers and they\u2019re not going to overpay for it. So it\u2019s really a self-imposed problem where we\u2019re not letting the movie and or the music business be what it is, which is a place to further culture or explore stories and not have one size fits all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t(L-R) Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, James Marsden and Vince Vaughn in \u2018Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20th Century Studios<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected and written by BenDavid Grabinski, Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice follows Nick (Vaughn), a mobster,whose older self time-travels from the future to try and stop a big job. At stake is a love triangle between Nick, Nick\u2019s wife Alice (Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez) and Nick\u2019s friend\/associate Quick Draw Mike (James Marsden). The pic world premiered at SXSW on Saturday and hits Hulu on March 27.<\/p>\n

\n\tSetting up the film, Vaughn says it\u2019s about \u201ca bunch of characters who\u2019ve made terrible choices, and then they\u2019re struggling their way through those consequences, like a morality tale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVaughn, underscoring his point that audiences crave more original movies, pointed to the pic\u2019s positive trailer reaction. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a huge crowd movie. It\u2019s got action and comedy and actually the buzz on it is stronger because it is something fresh. People are tired, people are fatigued by the rehash. People want to see new stories,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice\u2019 Trailer: James Marsden Tries To Help Two Vince Vaughns With Time Travel<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tVaughn was pretty much mum on what Season 2 of Apple TV\u2019s Bad Monkey will offer. While the majority of the production was shot in California, unlike Season 1, \u201cwe shot some in Florida with the exteriors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 2 is not based on the Carl Hiaasen novel Razor Girl, rather it\u2019s an \u201cinterim one, in between\u201d that novel. But as far as Razor Girl goes, \u201cthat would be the plan to do that,\u201d says Vaughn. Meanwhile, \u201cDavid Dobkin, the director of Wedding Crashers, came in and did a bunch of episodes.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tVaughn also chats with us about playing double himself Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, and gives an update on the long-gestating status of Wedding Crashers 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline Studio at SXSW presented by Redbreast Irish Whiskey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where did all the big-screen comedies go? Before the major studios pulled back on their greenlights of feature…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,270083,344,63535,268029,270084,257527],"class_list":["post-545386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-mike-nick-nick-alice","tag-movies","tag-sxsw","tag-sxsw-studio","tag-sxsw-studio-2026","tag-vince-vaughn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}