An Oscar-nominated costume designer known for collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Richard Curtis, Joanna Johnston this year realized her ninth collaboration with Robert Zemeckis, with the thrilling, romantic actioner, Allied. A timeless film of old Hollywood appeal, Allied tells a tale of love and…

4th Writethru, Sunday AM: Disney’s Moana estimated weekend outlook has slowed from $30M at the onset of the weekend to $28.4M, but that’s not her fault, it’s just the nature of the post Thanksgiving weekend which is always beaten down by the start of the holiday season. Still, Moana‘s coin collection was enough to…

It’s going to be quiet for a couple of weekends before Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens and gets moviegoers excited again, and while the post Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend frame is certainly one of the lowest in a given year, overall we should see stronger ticket sales than previous years for…

Those prone to forget the dark years preceding the 1944 Normandy invasion might puzzle over the decision, in Robert Zemeckis' Allied, to portray Oklahoma-born Brad Pitt's officer-protagonist as hailing from Canada rather than the United States. In market terms, that choice makes the hero slightly more remote for U.S…

UPDATE, TUESDAY AM PT, writethru with actuals: Coming out of its 2nd overseas weekend, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them zoomed past the $300M mark at the international box office. Billowing to a confirmed $318.6M cume off of a higher than estimated $132.5M at offshore turnstiles, the Warner Bros…

8th Update, Sunday AM: Family pics and holdovers largely ruled the Thanksgiving five-day holiday period, so if you were a new R-rated movie, it was particularly challenging.

Overall, ComScore is reporting “a moderately strong Thanksgiving 3-day (F-S-S) and 5-day frame” with $181.9M over FSS (even percent-wise with last…

Here it is the end of last weekend and the immediate beginning of a new one as the Thanksgiving stretch officially starts tomorrow night at 7 PM with a fresh crop of new releases hitting the multiplex.

Sources aren’t doubting that Disney’s new princess Moana might rain on Fantastic Beasts’ parade, winning the five-day…

Who says they don’t make ’em like they used to? Allied is what movies were once meant to be. A sweeping and glorious return to great storytelling in a film that has it all: a beautiful love story wrapped in an intelligent suspense thriller with wonderful performances from Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. As I say in my…

Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge has secured a theatrical release in China this year on Thursday December 8, during one of the country's busiest months for cinema.

It's a move that would suggest that the country's normally strict quota on foreign film imports may be expanding as, typically, Chinese government regulations wou…

Brad Pitt will go back to World War II with the major studio thriller Allied, set for release by Paramount Pictures on November 23; he last visited the war two years ago, as a battered tank commander in Sony’s Fury, and had been there in 2009, with Inglourious Basterds for the Universal Pictures and The Weinstein…

Paramount Pictures and China’s Huahua Media are teaming again to market a Paramount film in China, announcing Huahua’s deal today to invest in Allied, the Robert Zemeckis World War II romantic thriller starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. The Chinese company will act as the lead China marketing partner and is the…