EXCLUSIVE: Lifeguard drama Baywatch is coming back to television screens around the world. FremantleMedia International has remastered the David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson-fronted series into HD and will start shopping it to global broadcasters, while also eyeing a new reboot of the franchise. The RTL-owned…

Sloppy drumroll, please. The nominations are out for the 38th annual Razzie Awards, and a familiar franchise leads the way. Transformers: The Last Knight earned an embarrassing nine noms to lead the 2017 field. The Michael Bay-helmed pic starring Mark Wahlberg and a mess of vehicles that become warriors will battle it…

Paramount's Baywatch may have beached domestically, but it's been surfing a wave at the international box office — spurred by the source material’s global popularity, Dwayne Johnson’s star status … and The Hoff. Through Thursday, the Seth Gordon-helmed film is at $98.8M overseas and will cross $100M tomorrow. Domestic…

Opening up critically acclaimed horror movies at the box office? That's easy. But as far as comedies go, that’s hard. This weekend Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler hit career box office lows as New Line/Village Roadshow/Warner Bros' $40M-budgeted The House burned down with a $8.7M opening (figures as of Monday morning)…

In Episode 4 of The Deadline Podcast, Mike Fleming Jr joins me to review the options facing filmmakers in creating movies for streaming services versus for theaters. How do audiences respond to a major Netflix comedy-satire like Brad Pitt's War Machine, viewing it at home compared sharing it with a crowd of filmgoers…

Despite any talk of franchise fatigue at the domestic box office, or a splattering from Rotten Tomatoes, the larger story for Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is told in its global tally, which as of this morning has a worldwide start of $326 million, the 20th-best worldwide debut of all…

Write-thru Monday AM on UPDATED, Sunday AM: Even though Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales will bust into the top 25 global openings of all time with an estimated $275M by tomorrow, make no mistake: In the United States, this summer is on the verge of serious franchise fatigue, and this is only…

To get a leg up on the Memorial Day weekend box office before Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales takes it over, Paramount previewed Baywatch last night earning $1.25M from shows starting at 2,554 locations from shows starting at 7PM. The studio is currently comping Baywatch‘s evening cash to…

It’s Memorial Day weekend, what used to traditionally be the start of summer. And the last couple of years have been sluggish with potential tentpoles that either bombed (Disney’s Tomorrowland, Alice Through the Looking Glass), or underperformed, i.e. 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse ($79.8M over four days). But…

Let’s face it, Memorial Day weekend has pretty much been a dud in recent times. Last year, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse underperformed to $79.8 million over four days, but Disney has really been hit hard over the four-day holiday with such expensive bombs as Alice Through The Looking Glass ($33.5M four-day…

On a rusty boat trailer behind the lifeguard operations center at Will Rogers State Beach on Santa Monica Bay sits a reminder of the recent screen glory days here: It is a bright yellow rescue skiff, numbered BW1, with the flame-red logo Baywatch, blazoned the side. Baywatch is back, in a feature-film send up of the…

Paramount said today that Baywatch will open one day earlier than previously announced — on Thursday, May 25. In a Memorial Day weekend where Disney has a fifthquel to a popular franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, there’s no harm in the studio getting out there early by a day to build up some…