Hollywood Hopes to Laugh to the Bank

Hollywood’s big studios have found their cure for the surfeit of dour movies last fall and winter: a spring-summer comedy glut. Not inclined to half-measures, the film industry is about to swing from an awards season stuffed with bleak dramas like “There Will Be Blood” and the Oscar-winning “No Country for Old Men” toward a four-month stretch in which an unusual number of comedies will be crowding the screen.

Via NYTimes