Deadline's annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year's most profitable films. For the second year in a row, we decided to look at those ambitious features which did not connect with the masses. Here are the movies our experts said posted the worst losses.
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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, with what amounts to 85% of its international footprint stomping across the globe, has grossed $128M in 62 territories. Warner Bros. enjoyed its biggest weekend ever in China where it opened to $61.7M on its 18,200 screens. That one territory — where it has enjoyed a high Douban…
UPDATE, writethru: Having crossed $1B globally on Saturday, Disney/Marvel's Black Panther lifted its worldwide cume to $1,078.6M through Sunday. That's coming off a $100M offshore weekend that was boosted by China's estimated $66.5M launch. The international box office total for the Ryan Coogler superhero title is now…
Sunday AM: Disney dominated this weekend’s box office, commanding the top two spots with Marvel’s mighty Black Panther and Ava Duvernay’s’ A Wrinkle in Time. With an 84% from Friday to Saturday, Black Panther will gross $41.1M for the weekend as it pushes to almost $562M. A Wrinkle In Time will end its debut weekend…
At the first press screening of Disney’s new kids flick A Wrinkle in Time, director Ava DuVernay’s intro warned that this one was basically for ages 8-12. That, folks, is truth in advertising.
DuVernay finally has cracked the code that prevented a movie version of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbury Award-winning 1962…
Similar to the crowd-funding #BlackPantherChallenge which raised thousands of dollars for children to see Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther for free, Color of Change and AMC Theatres are teaming for Give A Child The Universe initiative which will give underprivileged kids the opportunity to see Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in…
EXCLUSIVE: The big budgetA Wrinkle In Time comes out on March 9 but director Ava DuVernay is still tending to her indie aims with a couple of executive moves at her ARRAY film collective.
Former Producing Artistic Director of the BlackStar Film Festival Maori Holmes has been appointed Executive Director of the…
Disney invites audiences to “tesser” into 2018 with a new TV spot and motion posters for the forthcoming Ava DuVernay-directed adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic young adult novel, A Wrinkle in Time.
The new TV spot released on Facebook is another morsel of fantastical goodness for Wrinkle starring Storm Reid…
“Be a warrior!” says Oprah Winfrey’s Mrs. Which to Storm Reid’ Meg in the new trailer for Disney’s highly-anticipated adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. The new look at the Ava DuVernay-directed fantasy pic includes tons of new footage that takes you into an adventurous and visually stunning world created by…
EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay, a recent Emmy-winner for her Netflix documentary 13th, has been tapped as an honoree at the 2018 American Black Film Festival Honors. ABFF Ventures announced today that The Queen Sugar and Selma helm will receive the Industry Visionary Award at the ceremony, which will be hosted by actor and…
There were both highs and lows at the Live Action D23 panel today. In the lows department: a distinct lack of new trailers for Black Panther and Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Also, no news on the Han Solo prequel, except that it's still coming out next summer as planned. And while attendees lucked out with an Avengers…
D23 attendees were treated to the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated A Wrinkle in Time starring Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine, and newcomer Storm Reid. The adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel also stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peňa, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe…
