FRIDAY PM: Despicable Me 4 is looking to post a Friday of $23.4M, on its way toward a $64.4M 3-day and 5-day of $112M at 4,428 sites, which is still north of tracking’s range of $110M to $120M. It skews younger than Inside Out 2, so don’t expect the late evening draws. Illumination continues to have…

Gory Hindi action film Kill opens on 827 screens via Roadside Attractions this weekend. It’s the distributor's first foray into Indian film, which is having another moment after two pics hit the top 10 in North America last week. This is a crowded theatrical market with wide releases piling in and some…

Making the most of the fact that Deadpool & Wolverine is the first original film of the franchise to land a China release date, stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with director Shawn Levy, appear to have had a grand time promoting the Disney/Marvel pic in Shanghai this week. During the trip…

The 39th edition of France's reduced-price movie ticket scheme, La Fête du Cinéma, has blasted through all previous records with 4.65 million admissions across the four-day event. The promotion sees movie tickets discounted to 5 euros each for all showings in participating cinemas (excluding premiums for…

NRG, Screen Engine and other three-week-in-advance box office tracking services are reporting a domestic box office opening for Disney/Marvel Studios’ first R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, at $160 million-$165 million, which would not only be the best opening year-to-date but also a record start for…

Audiences are accustomed to seeing Michael Rooker play tough characters in projects like The Walking Dead and Guardians of the Galaxy, but the actor himself had some tough-love advice for audiences who didn’t exactly flock to his latest film Horizon, which is directed by and stars Kevin Costner. The…

Broadway continued settling in to its post-Tonys summer last week, with box office for most shows slipping at least a bit from the previous week and the total roster trimmed to 30 from 32. In all, receipts for the 30 productions totaled $34,783,390, down about 7% from the previous week (one of the…

Families will not stop heading to the cinemas this week as Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 storms into summer with what’s looking like a $110M-$120M 5-day U.S./Canada opening at 4,000 theaters. This as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains strong after a third No. 1 weekend, that pic heading to…

Media mogul Barry Diller is exploring a bid for Paramount, The New York Times reports. The Hollywood potentate-turned-digital media pioneer’s IAC Corp. has inked nondisclosure deals with Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc., the company’s controlling stakeholder, the paper said. The Times said…

Universal’s massive musical tentpole bet Wicked originally was dated to go head-to-head with Disney Animation’s five-quad movie Moana 2 on Wednesday, November 27, the day before Thanksgiving, but will now go five days earlier on Friday, Nov. 22. A very smart release date change. Both movies are…

Lionsgate has set a release date of Labor Day weekend, August 30, for the action crime thriller 1992, which is one of Ray Liotta’s final film roles. The Emmy-winning actor co-starred in the movie opposite Tyrese Gibson. In addition today, Snoop Dogg boarded the movie as EP through his Death Row Pictures…

In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn't want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they decided on cremation. That is strictly against the Jewish religion and there were no crematoria in the…