2ND UPDATE, Friday 1:12 PM: Here’s what we know at this point in time and we’ll have further updates: New Line’s The Curse of La Llorona is eyeing a $9.1 million-plus Friday for a $19M-$20M opening at 3,372 theaters  The studio’s Shazam! will settle for second for the Easter frame at $15.7M (a 36% dip), at 4,183…

UPDATED with new release date: Universal has dated its Paul Feig-directed romantic comedy Last Christmas starring Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding and Emma Thompson for November 8, 2019. That’s ahead a week from its originally announced November 15 date. Deadline broke the news about the project back in June.

Last Christma…

EXCLUSIVE: Shea Whigham, two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern and Zach Avery have joined The Gateway alongside previously announced Olivia Munn.  Emmy Award nominee Michele Civetta (The Executrix, Premonitions) is attached to direct.  Andrew Levitas will produce under his Metalwork Pictures banner alongside Stephen…

Disney’s first Fox release under the combined regime, the faith-based DeVon Franklin produced Breakthrough notched second place in its opening day yesterday with an estimated $1.7M at 2,764 runs behind New Line/DC’s Shazam! which took No. 1 in his second Wednesday with $1.96M (-39% from Tuesday at 4,306) for a running…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Olivia Munn has been cast as the female lead in writer/director Dean Craig's romantic comedy Love, Wedding, Repeat.

The feature project centers on Jack who finds himself juggling brotherly duties to ensure his sister Hayley has the wedding of her dreams while unexpectedly being reun…

EXCLUSIVE: Already having broken pre-sale ticket records, Avengers: Endgame has smashed through another milestone before it squashes all box office benchmarks starting Thursday, April 25: The Anthony and Joe Russo-directed feature is far and away the biggest marketing promotional campaign in Marvel Studios history at…

For the first time since 2014, Easter won’t have a huge multi-quadrant event film opening and dominating this weekend, and as we explained last week, that’s due to Disney dating Avengers: Endgame on the calendar next Friday.

The Russo Brothers-directed Marvel film is expected to be one of the five highest grossing pict…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms has set the cast for their horror thriller Countdown about an app which tells people when they’re going to be killed.

Joining previously announced Elizabeth Lail is Talitha Bateman (Love, Simon, Annabelle: Creation), Peter Facinelli (Twilight franchise), P.J Byrne (Green Book, Rampage), Anne Winters…

5th Update, Sunday AM: after Friday and Saturday posts:  New Line/DC’s Shazam! bulked up 74% on Saturday over Friday with $11M, putting its second weekend at $25.1M, -53%, for a 10-day of $94.9M. The DC superhero hero formerly known as Captain Marvel should cross $100M before Good Friday.

The weekend’s other comic book…

EXCLUSIVE: A spirited auction has ended with Universal winning the rights to an untitled comedy pitched around town by Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra and Dan Goor. Kaling will write with Goor and she will potentially direct. Its a two-hander star vehicle for Kaling and Priyanka Chopra that takes place in America and…

UPDATE: Paramount’s live action take on Nickelodeon’s hit TV toon series Dora the Explorer — Dora and the Lost City of Gold — will now open on July 31. That’s a Wednesday and it will give her a jump before Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw swipes all the weekend box office on Aug. 2. Disney still has…

It’s official: Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic Rocketman is making its global debut at the Cannes Film Festival in a special out of competition Gala screening on May 16.

The Paramount release hits U.S./Canada on May 31 and the early footage that’s been seen by the media and exhibitors in recent weeks at CinemaCon…