00:00Sit down, John.
00:03Don't embarrass me in front of the crew.
00:05We love Robert Downey Jr. 3000,
00:07but critics are tearing his new movie, Dolittle, apart.
00:10So how will it do at the box office
00:11against Bad Boys for Life?
00:13And the jurors have been selected for Harvey Weinstein's trial.
00:16Did Gigi Hadid make the cut?
00:17I'm Tiffany Taylor, and right now I've got the top stories
00:19you need to know today from The Hollywood Reporter News.
00:22First up, bad boys, bad boys.
00:24What you gonna do?
00:25What you gonna do when they come for you?
00:26What you gonna do?
00:28What you gonna do when we come for you?
00:31Hey, hey, uh-uh, no, no.
00:33Bad Boys for Life starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
00:35hits theaters this weekend,
00:37and it's set to easily laugh its way past
00:39Dolittle at the box office.
00:41Bad Boys for Life marks the third movie in the series
00:43and opens 17 years after the last installment
00:46in the action comedy franchise hit the big screen.
00:49Drawing solid reviews, it's pacing to gross anywhere
00:51from 38 to 45 million dollars domestically
00:53over the four-day weekend, if not more.
00:55I'm gonna get tired.
00:59What happened to Bad Boys for Life?
01:01Meanwhile, Doolittle is tracking for a four-day gross
01:03of 22 to 28 million dollars, a disappointing start
01:06for a movie that cost a net 175 million dollars
01:09to make before marketing.
01:11Somehow, we just belong together.
01:14I'm coming, Doc!
01:17Critics haven't been kind to Doolittle,
01:19AKA, they've totally dragged it.
01:21This marks RDJ's first big project
01:23since his retirement from playing Iron Man last year.
01:26THR's Neha Joy in New York has all the details.
01:28Doolittle also stars Antonio Banderas,
01:31Jim Broadbent, and Michael Sheen,
01:33while A-listers such as Octavia Spencer,
01:35Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena,
01:38and Marion Cotillard lend their voices
01:40to animated characters.
01:41But despite the bright star power,
01:43reviewers found the latest re-imagination
01:45of the literary classic to be rather dim.
01:48The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy noted,
01:50from the very first scene,
01:51it's clear something is terribly off
01:53with this lavishly misbegotten attempt
01:55to repopularize an animal-loaded literary franchise
01:58that was born exactly a century ago.
02:01Newsday's Raffer Guzman seemed to agree with McCarthy,
02:04calling the film elaborately staged, but charmless.
02:06Guzman also took issue with Downey's portrayal
02:09of Dr. Doolittle, explaining,
02:10As for Downey, his Doolittle is one weird creation,
02:13not in an inspired Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka way,
02:16but in a baffling Johnny Depp as Mordecai way.
02:19And Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson saw Doolittle
02:22as an unfunny misfire, explaining,
02:24Despite all its desperate trying,
02:26Doolittle is not a funny movie.
02:28Sweet and engaging sometimes, to be sure,
02:30but nowhere near a laugh riot.
02:32The film currently sits at a mere 14% rating
02:34on Rotten Tomatoes.
02:36And five jurors have been picked to serve
02:37in Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial in New York County.
02:40So did Gigi Hadid make the cut?
02:42The supermodel caused a stir earlier this week
02:44when she was among hundreds of New Yorkers
02:46that sat in Judge James Burke's courtroom on Monday
02:48to potentially serve as a juror in Weinstein's case.
02:51But despite Hadid's insistence that she could, quote,
02:53keep an open mind on the facts,
02:55court officials confirmed she was cut
02:57from the list of potential jurors.
02:58The five jurors who were picked include
03:00three men and two women.
03:02One of the men is African American and two are Caucasian.
03:05Both women are African American.
03:07For much more on all these stories
03:08and the latest entertainment news,
03:09head to THR.com.
03:10Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,
03:13I'm Tiffany Taylor.
