>> I DON'T REGRET BEING AT HOME
AND BEING YOUR MOM BUT I REGRET
NOT GETTING MY DEGREE.
>> JUST ENROLLED IN COLLEGE.
I'M REFERRING TO MYSELF.
I WILL SEE YOU AROUND THE QUAD.
>> NOBODY SAYS THAT.
MARIA: A CLIP FROM THE NEW
COMEDY LIFE OF THE PARTY WITH
MELISSA MCCARTHY PLAYING A
DEDICATED HOUSEWIFE WHO DECIDES
TO REENROLL IN COLLEGE AFTER
HER HUSBAND THESE ARE ONLY TO
END UP IN THE SAME SCHOOL AS
HER DAUGHTER.
MICHAEL, ANOTHER MELISSA
MCCARTHY HIT ON OUR HANDS, IT
LOOKS FUNNY.
>> GOOD MORNING.
MELISSA MCCARTHY'S MOVIES
COLLECTIVELY HAVE GROSSED
$1.1 BILLION THROUGHOUT HER
CAREER, ALMOST GUARANTEED BOX
OFFICE GOLD, LOOKS TO BRING IN
$25 MILLION THIS WEEKEND,
REMINDED ME A LITTLE BIT --
FLASHBACK FRIDAY.
RODNEY DANGERFIELD IN BACK TO
SCHOOL FROM THE 80s.
MARIA: A CONCEPT.
>> THE TRIPLE WHEN THE I WAS
THINKING.
MARIA: NOT THE ONLY MOVIE
HITTING THEATERS WEDNESDAY.
THIS IS THE NEW FILM BREAKING
IN.
>> MAKE IT THROUGH THE WEEKEND
AND COME HOME.
>> MOM?
>> IF YOU HAD --
>> MOM!
MARIA: MOM GETS TO SAVE THE DAY
IN THIS DRILLER.
TWO FILMS SHOW MOMS AS HEROES
IN DIFFERENT WAYS FOR MOTHER'S
DAY WEEKEND.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
>> PROBABLY MELISSA MCCARTHY'S
MOVIE WILL COME IN OVER
BREAKING IN BUT EITHER WAY IT
IS BRILLIANT KIND OF
PROGRAMMING TO THE OTHER BIG
MONSTER MOVIE OUT THERE RIGHT
NOW THAT LOOKS TO BE AVENGERS
INFINITY WAR.
IF YOU NOTICE A TREND, WOMEN
LEADING THE BOX OFFICE.
IT IS NOT A FLUKE.
HOLLYWOOD IS WAKING UP TO THE
POWER OF WOMEN AT THE BOX
OFFICE AND LAST YEAR THE TOP
THREE GROSSING MOVIES WERE ALL
HELD BY WOMEN FROM WONDER WOMEN
TO BEAUTY AND THE BEAST TO STAR
WARS.
MARIA: I LOVE THAT,
PARTICULARLY SOMEBODY LIKE
MELISSA MCCARTHY WHO IS AS
FUNNY IF NOT FUNNIER THAN, SAY,
WILL FERRELL.
I READ ONE OF THE REVIEWS FOR
THAT MELISSA MCCARTHY MOVIE AND
IT IS SWEET, NOT JUST
HILARIOUS.
IT IS DIRECTED BY HER HUSBAND.
>> THE FEMALE COMEDIAN, SHE
COULD STAND THERE AND MAKE ME
LAUGH.
THE MOVIES BY GAME SHE WAS IN
WAS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST OF ALL
TIME.
MARIA: ARE THEY GOING TO TAKE
MARKET SHARE FROM AVENGERS
INFINITY WAR?
WILL THE BILLION-DOLLAR MARBLE
FLICK CONTINUE TO DOMINATE?
>> ABSOLUTELY.
THE FASTEST MOVIE TO CROSS THE
ZILLION DOLLAR MARK IN HISTORY,
BREAKING ALL KINDS OF RECORDS,
PULLING IN 55 IN $55-$60
MILLION ON ITS THIRD WEEKEND
AND COME IN AT NUMBER ONE.
DEADPOOL II LOOKS TO GIVE A
FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE AND AT THE
END OF THE MONTH WE HAVE SOLO.
I HEAR YOU CLAPPING.
MARIA: PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT
YOU THOUGHT ABOUT SO.
DAGEN: DEADPOOL WAS ONE OF THE
MOST SURPRISINGLY HILARIOUS
>> I DID NOT KNOW DEADPOOL WAS
PART OF THE COMIC UNIVERSE.
DAGEN: GET OUT OF POLITICS AND
DRONES.
>> I DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE
OTHERS.
>> ROBERT GREW UP IN A
DIFFERENT TIME, THERE WERE VERY
FEW SUPERHEROES BACK THEN.
MARIA: FINAL WORD ON SOLO?
>> I AM BOUND TO HOLD MY LIPS
SEALED UNTIL AFTER MAY 15TH.
THE HOLLYWOOD WILL PUT OUT ALL
THE STOPS, THE OSCARS AT THE
PREMIER, THEY HAD HOLLYWOOD
BOULEVARD CLOSED END TO END,
MASSIVE RED CARPET WITH THE
MILLENNIUM FALCON IN THE MIDDLE
OF THINGS, AN INCREDIBLE NIGHT.
HOLD ON TO YOUR SEATS.