UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Thor: Ragnarok has Hulk-smashed his way to $308.3M at the international box office, a couple of million more than the Sunday estimates. This is coming off of a sophomore overseas frame that added $153.7M, including a $56.3M debut in China — the biggest industry opening weekend ever for…

Monday final with chart: Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok easily beat its Sunday $121M estimate with $122.7M which makes it the sixth best opening of November. The Taika Waititi-directed threequel drew $32.1M yesterday, -27% from Saturday’s $44.2M. That haul ranks as the second best Sunday in November after The Hunger Ga…

Writethru Thursday AM follow 1st Update, Wednesday 11:31PM: STXfilms’ A Bad Moms Christmas is looking at a first day of $2.6M at 3,615 theaters, not too far from the $2.7M we saw late last night. CinemaScore audiences who turned up tonight gave the film a ‘B’ as opposed to the first installment’s ‘A’ which opened on a…

Considering the fact that STX’s raunchy broad comedy Bad Moms became a surprise summer hit in 2016, it should come as no shock that a sequel would be ordered quickly. Turnaround on the new holiday-themed follow-up, A Bad Mom’s Christmas, was especially fast as STX has it in theaters starting today, just 15 months…

After launching to $109M in 36 markets last weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok will dominate additional destinations around the world such as the U.S./Canada, China, Japan, Germany, Russia and Mexico moving its global cume to a projected $400M-plus by Sunday. That’s jawdropping considering the first Thor‘s…

When it comes to raunchy comedies at the box office this year, there’s hardly been anything  funny about them.

A number of prolific star-studded attempts including Sony’s Rough Night, Paramount’s Baywatch, New Line/Warner Bros.’ The House and 20th Century Fox’s Snatched vied to counterprogram key weekends during the…

UPDATED with new release date: Summertime wasn’t easy on raunchy comedies, but Christmas is for dreaming, right? STX Entertainment has unwrapped a new – and restricted – trailer for A Bad Moms Christmas, the not-yet-rated comedy that sends a group of mothers and their adult daughters off to the mall and other holiday…

Bad Moms pounced on an unsuspecting box office last year, pulling down $113M from a $20M budget. It was the first $100M domestic hit for STXfilms, which quickly greenlighted a sequel. And with late-June thermometers redder than a Utah primary map, here’s the first redband trailer for A Bad Moms Christmas.

Mila Kunis, K…

Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Peter Gallagher are joining STXfilms‘ comedy sequel A Bad Moms Christmas. The three actresses are playing the moms of the bad moms — Sarandon will play Kathryn Hahn’s character’s mom, Baranski for Mila Kunis and Hines for Kristen Bell as the clash of the female…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Hartley, star of  breakout series This Is Us, has come aboard STXfilms’ A Bad Moms Christmas, joining original stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn. Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are back to write and direct the sequel to their 2016 hit comedy, which is slated to bow theaters November 3.

The s…

Bad Moms is officially (and deservedly) a franchise as the hit comedy’s stars are reuniting for A Bad Moms Christmas, set to hit theaters November 3, 2017.

STX is fast-tracking the holiday-themed sequel sees the titula under-appreciated and over-burdened friends coping with the stresses of the most wonderful time of ye…