“MacGruber,” featuring “Saturday Night Live” stars Will Forte and Kristen Wiig, opens today and is the latest in a series of flicks that have been adapted from popular sketches on the long-running late night show. Take a look at other sketches that made the leap to the silver screen.
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“The Blues Brothers,” which starred John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, was a success at the box office when it opened in 1980, making $57 million.
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The popular “Wayne’s World” sketch was made into a 1992 film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey and was a smash hit, making $122 million and spawning a sequel the following year.
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“Coneheads,” a hit on “SNL,” was adapated into a feature film in 1993. Dan Aykroyd reportedly got the idea for the aliens from the Easter Island statues. The film was not as successful as the sketch, making only $21 million.
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“Stuart Saves His Family,” a 1995 film based on sketches starring Stuart Smalley — a satire of people obsessed with self-help — made a paltry $912,000 at the box office. The now-Senator Al Franken has been quoted as saying he got “the strong feeling I’d never star in a movie again.”
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Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan popularized the “Night at the Roxbury” sketch about two club kids who have little success with the ladies. When it hit theaters in 1998, though, it made only about $30 million. It’s also been reported that one producer whined that “What Is Love” singer Haddaway never said thank you for the sketch and film’s heavy use of the song.
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“Superstar,” a sketch starring Molly Shannon as nerdy Catholic schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher, made the jump to the silver screen in 1999 and made more than $30 million at the box office.
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Tim Meadows was particularly well-known for his hilarious “Ladies Man” character — a parody of a ’70s-era playboy. But when a film based on the SNL character hit the silver screen in 2000, it only made roughly $13 million.
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“Blues Brothers 2000” attempted to replicate the success of the first film almost 20 years prior, but the movie, which starred John Goodman and Dan Aykroyd, made only about $14 million in theaters.
