5th Update Sunday 7AM: With updated chart as of 9AM A dull weekend at the box office, and Saturday night really didn’t move the needle that much. Disney is calling Solo: A Star Wars Story at $29.3M, -65%, for a running total of $148.9M. This is after a Saturday that was +51% over Friday with $12.4M. That’s the lowest…

It has taken 35 years for Tami Oldham's compelling survival-at-sea story to make it to the movies, but as I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), it was worth the wait. Sure we have seen similar kinds of stories like this, where one person must face the odds alone against Mother Nature, but when it…

In the wake of the best Memorial Day stretch since 2014 with $227.6M, the box office will now go to sleep this weekend. While there are wide releases, many of them are counterprogramming options to the event titles out there. Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story will pull in a second weekend in the low $30Ms, experiencing…

“We’re not gonna die out here.” Coming off one of the most ruthless  hurricane seasons in memory, here is the new trailer for Adrift, the survival-at-sea drama starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin from director Baltasar Kormákur. Landlubbers who blanch at the thought of facing a wave the size of an office…

STXfilms will be opening Baltasar Kormákur’s Adrift wide on June 1. The pic stars Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as avid sailors who set out on a journey across the ocean and encounter one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell and David Branson Smith adapted Adrift…

The Berlin Film Festival is just getting underway in the German capital, but buyers and sellers are already on the ground with most arriving late Wednesday to adjust to the freezing temperatures and, hopefully, warm up to deals. The weather can be counted on to be icy — the heat of the deals is another matter. As we…

EXCLUSIVE: STXfilms is near a deal to produce and distribute Adrift, the Baltasar Kormákur-directed true story of survival at sea that has Shailene Woodley in negotiations. The division of STX Entertainment is acquiring world rights to the twentysomething net budget film that begins production in June. STX will…

UPDATE with full list: This year’s The Black List, the annual rundown of Hollywood’s best screenplays that haven’t been produced, dropped today. It’s interesting timing to release such a usually hot-button, water-cooler list on a big news day already with the Golden Globes, but the 73 scripts were unveiled via Twitter…

EXCLUSIVE: While movie business transactions have been sluggish since Thanksgiving, it looks like there will be a last rush of deal-making before the holidays set in. The hot package that has buyers salivating right this moment: Several distributors are engaged on Adrift, a drama spec by Aaron & Jordan Kandell that…