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France's National Film Center, the CNC, has taken measures to relax the country's notoriously strict windows policy during the coronavirus pandemic. A reduction from the traditional four-month delay between theatrical release and DVD or TVOD was earlier granted for all titles that were already in cinemas on March 14…

Joining Elsa and Anna from Frozen 2, and Rey and Kylo from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Birds of Prey will be nesting in homes next Tuesday, March 24, as the nation begins a long spell of cabin fever no thanks to the coronavirus. That date is an electronic sell through date, with the Cathy Yan-directed Warner Bros…

UPDATE, writethru: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog continues to be top critter of the litter at the global and international box office this weekend with an added $38.3M from 56 overseas markets. That brings the offshore cume to $96.5M and worldwide to $203.1M. Sonic raced into an additional 16 hubs this frame, with…

UPDATED, Monday AM: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog will hit $70 million in four days, according to the studio, after a $16.5M Sunday that is down 20% from Saturday. The pic based on the Sega character remains the best domestic opening for a video game property on the big screen on both a three-day and four-day basis…

UPDATE, writethru: Paramount's Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega's globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint…

There’s never one reason why a movie fails at the box office, but several, and titling the Harley Quinn Warner Bros. Suicide Squad spinoff Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn wasn’t really the wisest movie marketing decision of late. Birds of Prey opened to $33M at the domestic box…

The awards season ended with a bang as Hollywood celebrated Lulu Wang’s The Farewell winning Best Feature and Zhao Shuzhen nabbing Best Supporting Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards while Bong Joon-ho’s peachy dark comedy masterpiece about social class made history at the Academy Awards, becoming the first…

She’s a violent, murdering maniac. But she’s also apparently a Bernie Bro. Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn has politics apparently in line with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, as revealed in the new Birds of Prey. In one scene, Roman Sionis (played by Ewan McGregor) holds her captive. As the voiceover of Quinn explains her…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Flying in well below pre-weekend projections, Warner Bros’ Birds Of Prey has landed an estimated $48M bow from 78 international box office markets. Combined with domestic‘s disappointing performance, the global opening is $81.3M. Despite good reviews and positive reactions, the DC spinoff…

4th UPDATE, Sunday AM w/final chart: In the wake of hitting highs with Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all-time in the 11-time Oscar-nominated and billion-dollar-plus grossing Joker, Warner Bros’ DC hit a pothole with the Suicide Squad spinoff Birds of Prey, opening well below…

It’s shaping up to be a historic weekend in Gotham City (and in Burbank) that starts with the splashy release of Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn and likely ends with Oscar-night magic for Joaquin Phoenix and Todd Phillips’ Joker. Yan’s Birds of Prey, much…

Joker and his origin story have stolen most of the awards-season thunder as far as the DC Comic Book movie world is concerned. But now it is time for his girlfriend to take the spotlight. Or should I say, ex-girlfriend, as we learn that fact very early on in the wildly entertaining Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Em…