'Heartbreak Kid' ready to come out and play

October 05, 2007 It's safe to say the DreamWorks/Paramount remake of "The Heartbreak Kid" won't break any executives' hearts over its opening weekend, but the Farrelly brothers comedy likely won't break any records either, Ben Stiller's toplining draw notwithstanding. Whether "Kid" can show the kind of sturdy legs displayed by "Mary" will depend on whether positive word-of-mouth from older-skewing opening-weekend audiences spurs the under-25 crowd to join in the R-rated fun over subsequent frames. Happily for execs at DreamWorks/Paramount, Stiller's global appeal -- demonstrated most recently by the robust worldwide boxoffice for Fox's "Night at the Museum" -- should help "Kid" outperform the typical comedy in an international rollout that also begins this weekend in a handful of territories.

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