{"id":22395,"date":"2013-07-08T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22395"},"modified":"2013-07-08T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:12:34","slug":"kevin-harts-let-me-explain-stand-up-film-is-big-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22395","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hart\u2019s \u2018Let Me Explain\u2019 Stand-Up Film Is Big At Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kevin Hart\u2019s<\/strong> new stand-up comedy film<em> \u2018Let Me Explain\u2019<\/em> was a surprise smash at the box office and could potentially become the most successful film of its kind ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hart<\/strong>, who has been on a winning streak following his hit film <em>\u2018Think Like a Man<\/em>\u2019 and popular BET series<em> \u2018Real Husbands of Hollywood\u2019<\/em>, already has one very successful stand up film under his belt; 2011s <em>\u2018Laugh at My Pain\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But the performance of <em>Let Me Explain<\/em> is unprecedented. The film has already earned $7.4 million in ticket sales during its first two days of release, which nearly eclipsed the entire run of <em>Laugh at My Pain<\/em>. And Variety reports that<em> Let Me Explain<\/em> made $29 million by Sunday night. The movie achieved this feat while opening in 876 theaters.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, Disney\u2019s <em>The Lone Ranger<\/em> (starring <strong>Johnny Depp<\/strong>) opened in 3,904 theaters and yet only grossed $5 million more than Hart\u2019s low-budget comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Hart\u2019s new stand-up comedy film \u2018Let Me Explain\u2019 was a surprise smash at the box office and could potentially become the most successful film of its kind ever. Hart, who has been on a winning streak following his hit film \u2018Think Like a Man\u2019 and popular BET series \u2018Real Husbands of Hollywood\u2019, already has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}