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With few new releases debuting this week,the female-fronted Ocean’s 8 opened over the weekend to a series-best $41.5 million to easily place No. 1 in North America. Overseas, the pic grossed $12.2 million from its first 16 markets, many of them in Latin America, for a global start of $53.7 million. The …

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, A Very Good Production and Red 56 have begun principal photography on Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, an all-new feature film that returns the American icon to filmed entertainment for the first time in more than a decade. The production is based in Georgia filming …

Jamie Foxx is set to play the titular character in Todd McFarlane’s forthcoming Blumhouse Productions adaptation of SPAWN. This newest adaptation—a gritty, R-rated reimagining—marks Image President, co-founder and SPAWN creator, Todd McFarlane’s film directorial debut. McFarlane, an Emmy/Grammy-winning producer/director is also on board as screenwriter and co-producer with Blumhouse. “There …

Superheroes continued to dominate the box office as Ryan Reynolds and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 debuted to $125 million domestically and $301 million globally after scoring the biggest foreign debut in history for an R-rated title. After falling off more than expected on Saturday, the sequel couldn’t match the North …

Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War continued to dominate the early summer box office over the weekend, earning $112.5 million domestically from 4,474 theaters to score the second-biggest sophomore outing ever as it topped the $1 billion mark globally faster than any film in history. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, …

The horror pic ‘A Quiet Place’ reclaimed the number one spot in its third weekend of release, as ‘Rampage’ became the weekend’s top worldwide grosser amid weak results from new releases. A Quiet Place took in an additional $22 million to bring its domestic total to $132 million, enough to bump the …

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, …

Casting a spotlight on the pop cultural status and ever-increasing appeal of anime, Funimation today released details on its major licensing push to aggressively address consumer demand for anime-related merchandise. To support these efforts, Funimation will be exhibiting at this year’s Licensing Expo 2018 (Booth #U252) and will showcase ten …

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 …

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 …