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Even the charms of Hugh Jackman were not enough to convince Evangeline Lilly to become an X-Man (or woman, as the case may be). Doing the promotional rounds for her new film, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Lilly revealed she once turned down Jackman’s pitch to have her join an X-Men film. The…

"There are no small roles,” said famed acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavski. Did he foresee the future of William Jackson Harper, whose addition to the cast of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has been confirmed by Disney sources? What that role is for Harper is being kept under wraps for now…

UPDATE, writethru: Warner Bros/New Line's The Nun conjured a $33.1M second weekend in 62 markets to come in tops again at the international box office. That's a 58% drop from her record-breaking opening and brings the offshore cume to $143.6M for $228.7M global. Fox's new entry, The Predator, faced off with the evil…

UPDATE, writethru: Warner Bros/New Line's evil sister thrilled to a $77.5M bow at the international box office this weekend. The Nun‘s debut flight came in well past projections to score the biggest overseas opening of all films in the Conjuring universe in like-for-like markets. Out of the 60 markets where she’s…

UPDATE, writethru: After cruising into China on Friday with the biggest opening day for the franchise, Mission: Impossible – Fallout jumped to a three-day launch of $77.3M. That's a new Middle Kingdom record for the series, and for star Tom Cruise. It's also 84% higher than Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, which…

UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man And The Wasp buzzed into China this weekend, winging to a $68M start there. The 4th best MCU opening ever in the market is also the 3rd highest of the year for a Hollywood movie in the Middle Kingdom. It zaps the worldwide AM&TW total up to $544.1M, and the international box…

Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp has swooped into China with a sizable opening for the size-morphing characters. The early estimates out of the Middle Kingdom see a Friday launch of $23 million-$24 million, which includes Thursday midnights. With the global cume at $471.5M through Thursday, the China addition…

MONDAY AM UPDATE, writethru: The Meg figures updated. Warner Bros/Gravity Pictures' prehistoric shark took a whale of a bite out of the box office in its opening this session as it surprised both at home and abroad. As of this morning, Meg counts $101.5M across 42 offshore markets, The Meg gobbled up a global launch…

China has added a pair of Hollywood titles to its August release roster with Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation checking in on August 17 and Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man And The Wasp making a beeline for August 24. As we wrote on Friday, Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout is going August 31, and as…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: After starting early offshore rollout Down Under two weeks ago, Sony Pictures Animation's Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation checked into another 42 markets this frame, and topped the studio charts with $46.4M in 44 total hubs. The overseas tally is now $54.8M for a global total of $100.12M. The…

4th Update with Sunday AM Analysis: This weekend The Rock is getting squashed by a horde of bloodsucking vampires, as Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation is the prime destination for families, with a studio-reported $44.1. That knocks down Dwayne Johnson’s Skyscraper to third place, with a…

The new Ant-Man epic is a big hit, again raising the question what is the box office magic embedded in Marvel's superhero (or super-insect) movies? How long will it sustain? The “magic” is a relatively new phenomenon: Thirty years ago this summer, in fact, Peter Guber ran into a brick wall trying to persuade Warner…