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Julia Roberts and George Clooney landed at the top of the international box office chart this weekend as Universal/Working Title's Ticket to Paradise expanded its offshore rollout. Adding 39 markets for a $12.1M session in 46 lifted the overseas cume to $14.8M with several majors still to come; domestic begins on…

UPDATE, writethru: There was a little more excitement at the international box office this weekend, with local movies leading the charge and a handful of new milestones for Hollywood pics. Taking the latter part first, Minions: The Rise of Gru crossed $900M global, Bullet Train drove past $200M and Top Gun: Maverick…

SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Some good word of mouth has prompted Disney/20th Century Studios/New Regency’s Barbarian to come in higher than anticipated at $10M; ditto for the their Star Studios’ Brahmastra Part One: Shiva which is at the high end of its estimates at $4.4M in the No. 2 spot. Disney will report their official…

The Story of Film: A New Generation opens at two dozen theaters this weekend — Laemmle Royal in LA, Museum of the Moving Image in NY, Music Box Theatre in Chicago and Brattle in Cambridge. It’s a mix of arthouses, cinematheques, museums and even a few multiplexes for Mark Cousins’ follow-up to his 15-hour, 2011 opus Th…

The first trailer has dropped for director-writer Ayan Mukerji's upcoming Brahmastra Part One: Shiva, a star-studded VFX spectacle that marks the beginning of a trilogy inside what's billed as India's first original cinematic universe, ie the Astraverse. Disney recently added the movie to its domestic release slate…

Disney has added director-writer Ayan Mukerji’s upcoming Brahmastra Part One: Shiva to its domestic box office slate, giving it a September 9 release in the U.S. and Canada. The film marks the beginning of a trilogy as well as what's billed as India's first original cinematic universe. Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan…

Director/writer Ayan Mukerji is perhaps best known internationally for 2013 musical romance Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, a big hit at home and abroad. Nearly a decade later, he's putting the finishing touches on Brahmastra Part One: Shiva, a passion project that marks the beginning of a trilogy as well as what’s billed as…