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Warner Bros.’ The Meg blew past all expectations in its North American debut over the weekend, swimming to $44.5 million from 4,118 theaters. The shark pic marks Warner Bros.’ biggest domestic opening of the year so far, while debuting to $96.8 million overseas for a global bite of $141.3 million, supplanting …

Paramount’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout fell just 43 percent in its sophomore outing to $35 million from 4,395 North American theaters over the weekend. That’s well ahead of the $25 million earned by Disney’s Winnie the Pooh live-action/CGI effort Christopher Robin from 3,602 locations in its launch. Fallout is a major …

The latest Mission: Impossible movie took the top spot in its box-office debut over the weekend. Paramount and Skydance’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout opened to $61.5 million from 4,306 theaters in North America, a franchise-high and the second-best of Cruise’s career behind 2005’s War of the Worlds ($64.9 million), not adjusted for …

STXfilms announced that Chadwick Boseman, the breakout star of this year’s blockbuster hit Black Panther, will star in and produce the studio’s upcoming action-thriller 17 BRIDGES alongside his writing and producing partner Logan Coles. Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo are set to produce and Mike Larocca will executive produce …

Earth’s mightiest Saiyan Goku is set to return to U.S. and Canadian theaters with today’s announcement that Funimation Films has acquired the theatrical rights to the new Dragon Ball Super movie, entitled “Dragon Ball Super: Broly”. This is the twentieth film in the Dragon Ball franchise and is based on the …

Universal’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom easily dunked the competition in its second weekend, grossing $60 million in North America as it roars toward the $1 billion mark globally. Jurassic World 2, however, continues trailing notably behind 2015’s Jurassic World, which finished its sophomore outing with a domestic total of $402.8 million after …

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 …