Dakota Johnson returns to Valentine's Day weekend!
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of How to Be Single...
Yes last year Dakota Johnson dominated Valentine's Day Weekend with Fifty Shades of Grey, which
opened with a stunning eighty-five million and went onto make almost six hundred million
worldwide. Previously best known as Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson's daughter, Dakota
was singled out by reviewers as the best part of the movie with her surprisingly comedic
performance as Anastasia Steele. She in fact was following in her mother's footsteps, who'd
made a name for herself with her own risque role in Body Double before proving herself
an adept comedian with Something Wild and Working Girl. So now Johnson, who has two
more Fifty Shades pictures to go, must try to build on that opportunity and her first
move out of the gate - after a small cameo in Black Mass - in starring in How to Be Single.
And Johnson's Fifty Shades success has gotten her top billing over her co-stars, who are
formidable. Rebel Wilson is a key player in the Pitch Perfect movies and has hosted the
MTV Movie Awards, Leslie Mann is Mrs Judd Apatow and recently had her own hit movie
with The Other Woman, while Alison Brie has a cult fan-base thanks to strong turns on
both Community and Mad Men. And behind the camera Drew Barrymore is producing, who back
in the day probably would've taken Johnson's role! This is the era of the female comedy,
with Bridesmaids, Trainwreck, Spy and of course the just mentioned Pitch Perfect movies and
The Other Woman. Made for just thirty million, How to Be Single doesn't have to be Fifty
Shades of Grey or even The Hangover to be considered a solid performer, but the latter
isn't out of the question either... An R-rated comedy about being single coming out on Valentine's
Day weekend is a pretty solid bet. Valentine's Day managed to make over two hundred million
worldwide, while He's Just Not that Into You did similarly big business - but then again
both those movies were rated PG-13