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EXCLUSIVE: Ad Astra and Call Me By Your Name producer RT Features, the growing indie production force based in Brazil, is launching RT Television in partnership with Anonymous Content and CAA. The latter will provide development funding, marking their first ever investment in an overseas film or TV operation. The TV…

UPDATE, writethru: In its sophomore frame, Fox/New Regency's Ad Astra again led the international box office, landing another $18M from 50 material markets. The overseas cume is $53.5M for $89M worldwide. The Brad Pitt-starrer is now out in all markets handled by Disney which is not across China, Taiwan or Hong Kong…

SUNDAY AM FINAL w/chart: After a $9 million Saturday that was up 58% over Friday, DreamWorks Animation/Pearl Studio’s Abominable is looking at a $20.85M opening and $30M worldwide. As we mentioned before, that’s the seventh No. 1 opening for Universal in 2019 —  eight if you count last weekend’s Downton Abbey — and it…

UPDATE, writethru: Newcomer Ad Astra, from Fox/New Regency and distributed by Disney, launched this weekend with an estimated $26M in 44 markets for a $45.2M worldwide start. The international box office debut is within the range we were hearing before the weekend, and is 49% ahead of last year's First Man and 23%…

4th Update, Sunday AM Final: w/chart You would think that in this day and age, the best place for a feature movie based on a popular TV series would be on a streaming service, right? But no, this weekend’s $31M opening of Focus Features and Carnival Films’ Downton Abbey continues to underscore the power of the big…

We’ve been hearing for quite some time that the advance ticket sales for Focus Features’ big-screen take on the TV series Downton Abbey are just through the roof. On Fandango, presales for the Michael Engler-directed feature continue to best those of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again and The Gr…

I have to admit I am still haunted by director James Gray’s 2016 film The Lost City of Z, which centered on an explorer on a mission to find evidence of an advanced civilization that lived in a remote and uncharted corner of the earth. I thought of it a lot as I watched Gray’s latest film, Ad Astra, which takes the…

Lionsgate and Millennium have another meat and potatoes box office feast on their hands in the wake of Angel Has Fallen overperforming this past weekend to a $21.3M opening with Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo: Last Blood set to open between $21M-$24M on Sept. 20. Longline for Last Blood directed by Adrian Grunberg, and…

In James Gray’s Ad Astra, Brad Pitt plays an astronaut traveling to the farthest reaches of our solar system to find his lost father and grapple with existential questions. And at the heart of the film, Pitt said at its Venice press conference earlier today, was the exploration of what constructs of masculinity mean…

When James Gray set out on the path that would lead him to Ad Astra, he couldn’t have foreseen the importance his film would take on, with Fox’s first releases under new ownership at Disney facing added scrutiny as observers wonder about the fate of the storied studio. First, Ad Astra proved a complicated film to get…

Over the past few years, the Venice Film Festival has become a magnet for awards-season hopefuls, having hosted world premieres of three of the past five Best Picture Oscar winners. This year again, there is no shortage of big-ticket titles that we’re likely to be talking about for the next six months. In what’s…

20th Century Fox has released a new trailer for sci-fi mystery drama Ad Astra ahead of its September 20 bow. The second trailer gives us a more reflective, cerebral look at the film, opening with Roy, played by Brad Pitt, who is on a mission to find his missing father. “Dad, I’d like to see you again,” he says into a…