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Nancy Tartaglione contributed to this report.  Some reporters are writing Adam Sandler’s box office obituary today after the less-than-spectacular $24M bow for Sony’s Pixels which cost a reported net $88M.  If the budget was lower, we’d be raving about what a profitable success it is. Tracking was way off on this one…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY 3:45 PM PT: Actuals are in from the studios, with Sony’s Pixels confirmed at $21.03M, down slightly from the $21.4M projected yesterday, and performing solidly in Latin America with many markets (including China, a co-financier) still on deck. That film came in 6th overall at the international box of…

4TH UPDATE, Final post 9:51AM after 8:25 AM: Disney Marvel’s Ant-Man showed Adam Sandler’s Pixels who had the real superpower this weekend, raking in an estimated $24.77M ($24.66M per industry estimates) to the Sony title’s $24M (industry is figuring a $23.7M bow). The industry predicted Pixels would trickle to second…

This weekend, the expectation is that there will be a cluster of films in the $20M range toward the top of the chart, with Sony’s Adam Sandler ’80s arcade comedy Pixels having the edge. Pixels is making a play for dads and sons, and will be sharing most of the family business that Disney Marvel’s Ant-Man and Universal…

Sunday was a tad slower than anticipated for Disney Marvel’s Ant-Man which came in below its $58M weekend estimate with $57.1M. Universal Illumination Entertainment’s Minions also came in under its $50.25M estimate with a reported actual of $49.3M. Uni’s Trainwreck came quite close to matching yesterday’s projection…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY, 2 PM PT: Actuals have rolled in from the studios with some (very) slight shifts afoot. Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man dropped its opening overseas final to $55.4M from a projected $56.4M, giving it a weekend total of $112.6M, off slightly from the $114.4M estimated on Sunday. Still, it’s the No. 2 movie…

6TH UPDATE, Sunday 10:14AM after 8AM post: After a lengthy three years which saw a change-up in two directors, various screenwriters and supporting actors, Marvel's Ant-Man finally opened to $58M. Industry figures for the Disney release are at $57.37M. Worldwide, the pic with a $114.4M opening is less than a $1M shy of…

Ant-Man will loom large at the global box office this weekend with an anticipated haul of $115M-$125M, but stateside, the Disney/Marvel superhero is in a staring contest with Universal/Illumination Entertainment’s Minions. Ant-Man is set to have a weekend in the low-$60Ms at an estimated 3,800 theaters with some extra…

3rd UPDATE, 4:44 PM: Paramount Pictures’ just reported grosses for Terminator: Genisys with a revised $46.5M from 60 territories. The international cume stands at $155.5M. So worldwide, this big-budget picture has roughly grossed only $224.3M worldwide. Not great. Also, final grosses are in for all titles. 3rd UPDATE…

After crossing $3B worldwide last week, Disney has now set another benchmark with $2B at the international box office so far in 2015. This is the sixth year in a row for the studio and is the fastest it’s ever made the climb. Last year, the mouse roared to $2B on August 3. The current estimated international total is…

With Comic-Con rolling along this weekend — and Deadline all over it — what better time for a review of the latest Marvel attempt to hijack the box office with a new comic book superhero? And, as I say in my video review (click on the link above), the company has managed to follow up last summer’s hit Guardians Of The…

In what is becoming a year of record speed to box office mile-markers for many of the majors, Disney has crossed $3B worldwide. The studio actually hit $3B earlier this week on June 30, significantly outpacing last year’s record which was set on August 5. The total worldwide box office as of today is $3.086B The June…