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‘Batman V Superman’s Knock-Down, Drag-Out Fight With The Box Office: 2nd Weekend At $51M+, -69%: Saturday PM Update

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6TH UPDATE, Saturday 11:45 PM: The only good news is that the second weekend for Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn’t any worse than what we expected, but a tad better with an industry FSS of $51.2M after seeing a $22.2M Saturday, +45% over Friday’s $15.3M. The concern here was that BvS’ second sesh was going to sink into the higher $40M range. Currently, that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen with many predicting a -35% hold on Sunday over… Read

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2016 GLAAD Media Awards Winners; Lilly Wachowski, ‘Bessie’ & More

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Tonight, Lilly Wachowski made her first public appearance since she came out as transgender, at the 27th annual GLAAD Media Awards here in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton. The annual ceremony honoring news, television, music, comics, and film media for outstanding representations of the LGBT community gave the Outstanding Drama Series award to her Netflix series Sense8. She took the stage opening her acceptance speech with "Ta-da!, to which she received a thunderous… Read

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‘Batman V Superman’ At $363.4M Offshore; Faces China Fight As Local Pics Storm Ring

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Friday’s overseas box office for Warner BrosBatman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice has come in at $19.2M in 67 markets. That reps a 71% drop from last Friday’s number in 62, including China. The international cume is now $363.4M. While China remains the top overseas market for Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, the Tomb Sweeping holiday this weekend has seen BvS essentially buried by a pair of new local films. As predicted last week, the arrival of The Bodyguard and Chongqing Hot P… Read

Business

Pundit Andrew Sullivan Will Write For The New York Magazine Editor Who Once Fired Him

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Andrew Sullivan, a public intellectual and conservative provocateur who wrote one of the Internet’s most influential blogs on culture and politics, has joined New York magazine as a contributing editor. The announcement was made Friday by editor-in-chief Adam Moss, who in a prior incarnation as editor of the New York Times Magazine fired Sullivan for the crime of publishing uncomfortable truths, or at least observations, about the Paper of Record. Sullivan (whose… Read

Film

Indonesia Considers Barring Environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio From Returning To Rainforest

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Indonesian immigration officials aren’t happy with Leonard DiCaprio, threatening to bar the outspoken Oscar-winning actor from returning to the country as a response to his social media posts lambasting the destruction of Indonesian rainforests and wildlife. DiCaprio visited Indonesia’s Mount Leuser National Park last weekend, then posted photos and messages to Twitter and Instagram calling attention to the country’s palm oil plantations and their detrimental impact on… Read

TV

‘Blue Bloods’ Ratings Top Friday, ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Returns Down, ‘Vampire Diaries’ Up

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There was no NCAA Tournament on CBS last night, though the Golden State Warriors suffered a rare and close loss at home to the Boston Celtics on cable, but the House of Moonves still scored. Though down 31% among adults 18-49 from last week when the NCAA Tourney was on, CBS drew a 1.1/4 rating and 8.16 million total viewers to win Friday night. A key player in that victory was Blue Bloods (1.2/4), which was the top rated and, with 10.26 million tuning in, the most watched… Read

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Jerry Bruckheimer On ‘Top Gun 2’ Progress, The Future of the ‘CSI’ Franchise And His Newest, ‘Horse Soldiers’

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Tonight begins The Heat Is On, the monthlong film festival mounted by the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television that celebrates the prolific career of of Jerry Bruckheimer. Kicking the festival off is a screening of the Tony Scott-directed Tom Cruise classic Top Gun that Bruckheimer produced with the late Don Simpson. Deadline’s Matt Grobar sat down with Bruckheimer to talk about his work and upcoming projects, including the legacy of Top Gun, the Screening Room… Read

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‘Sleepy Hollow’ Co-Star Confirms Show Exit Following Events Of Tonight’s Episode

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SPOILER ALERT: Details about tonight’s episode of Sleepy Hollow are discussed below. It might have felt like yet another annoying April Fool’s Day joke for fans of Sleepy Hollow, but alas it was not, as Fox’s supernatural drama said farewell to one of its main characters. In the closing moments of tonight’s episode, Joe Corbin, played by Zach Appelman, was killed off in the episode’s final moments, and Appelman confirmed his departure from the series in a tweet shortly… Read

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‘Wolf Of Wall Street’ Producer Red Granite Now Cooperating In Federal Probe Into Funding

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UPDATED, 7:39 PM: Red Granite, the producer of The Wolf of Wall Street, is now said to be cooperating with a federal investigation into its money relationships (Deadline broke the news of the subpoenas and federal probe earlier this year). The Wall Street Journal today reported that Red Granite is cooperating with the ongoing federal probe which, they report, is focused on whether $155M may have moved through a Malaysian government fund known as 1MDB and into Red Granite… Read

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‘When The Street Lights Go On’: Graham Beckel & Luke Kirby Cast In Hulu Pilot

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Graham Beckel (Aquarius) and Luke Kirby (Rectify) are set as series regulars opposite Max Burkholder and Odessa Young in When the Street Lights Go On, Hulu's drama pilot adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O'Keefe. The project hails from Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. In the vein of Stand by Me, When the Street Lights Go On is a coming-of-age thriller about a sleepy, suburban town that is rocked by the brutal murder of… Read

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Eric Christian Olsen Swings For ‘Battle Of The Sexes’; Talitha Bateman Joins ‘Vengeance: A Love Story’

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NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen has joined the cast of Fox Searchlight’s upcoming sports biopic Battle of the Sexes. Directed by Little Miss Sunshine duo Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, the film tells the story behind famous 1973 “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match between 29-year old No. 2 ranked female player Billie Jean King and former champion Bobby Riggs – a match that stemmed from Riggs denigration of female players as inferior to the men. Olsen will… Read