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Rampage opened to $34.5 million from 4,101 theaters, one of the best showings ever for a video game adaptation and enough to win the weekend ahead of holdover horror sensation A Quiet Place. That was still behind expectations, however.  In Rampage, Johnson plays a primatologist whose beloved pal, an albino gorilla, …

The importance of originality to moviegoers came across loud and clear at the weekend box office. Paramount’s A Quiet Place — a high-concept horror-thriller directed by John Krasinski that has less than three minutes of dialogue — opened to a booming $50 million from 3,508 theaters in North America, well ahead …

VIZ Media expands its catalog for the K anime franchise with the acquisition of K: SEVEN STORIES. The agreement forged with Japan-based King Records covers the digital streaming, EST, home video and merchandising rights to K: SEVEN STORIES. Based on the hit anime property from Studio GoHands and GoRA Project, K: …

WOW! Unlimited Media Inc. continues to make inroads in the competitive marketplace of kids and youth entertainment. Mainframe Studios, WOW’s Vancouver based animated and live-action television production studio, is about to debut projects that reach a broad demographic. While it continues to offer traditionally accessible fare, the company is embracing the …

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One easily won the box-office, grossing $41.2 million to score the holiday weekend’s biggest opening ever for a non-sequel. That brings the movie’s four-day bow to a better-than-expected $53.2 million after launching a day early on Thursday. Still, the verdict is out on whether Ready One Player is …

Pacific Rim Uprising was the film to dethrone Black Panther at the domestic box office upon opening to a tepid $28 million from 2,850 theaters over the weekend. While coming in ahead of tracking, that’s still a troublesome start for a movie that cost $155 million to produce before marketing. The first …

Black Panther continued to make history in its fifth weekend at the domestic box office with a haul of $27 million, burying Tomb Raider and becoming only the seventh film ever to cross the $600 million mark in North America. Black Panther is the first film since Avatar eight years ago …

 The inevitable clash between an unbeatable crew addicted to heists and an elite unit of Los Angeles detectives comes to a head in Den of Thieves, arriving on Digital on April 10, 2018 and on Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on April 24, 2018from STXfilms and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Directed …

WGN America announced that it has secured the U.S. rights to the gripping crime series “The Disappearance,” starring Emmy winner Peter Coyote(“The 4400,” “Law & Order: LA”), Camille Sullivan (“The Man in the High Castle”), and Aden Young(“Rectify,” Killer Elite). The six-part mystery event is created and written by Normand Daneau (“Unité …

The Flash’s world spins out of control when his arch-nemesis Reverse-Flash puts the Scarlet Speedster into a vicious time loop in LEGO DC Super Heroes: The Flash, the latest animated film from Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment and The LEGO Group. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will distribute the full-length movie …