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The next three weeks might decide the future of comedy movies

A trio of comedies are about hit screens in the UK: ‘Friendship’, ‘Happy Gilmore 2’, and ‘The Naked Gun’. In different ways, they each reveal a lot about the current state of the film industry, writes Louis Chilton – and might have serious knock-on consequences

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