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At last, women are directing tentpole features, an arena in which they've historically been sidelined. The big comic book franchises are on board too, finally hiring from the plethora of talented women in the industry. Cathy Yan and Ava DuVernay are helming two of DC Films' upcoming blockbusters for Warner Bros., Birds…

4th Update, Sunday 10:17 AM Writethru: With chart As we were the first to say yesterday very early in the morning, it’s the lowest Easter weekend at the box office in well over a decade – actually, since 2003, per ComScore this morning (when it hit $107.1M), with the last three days totaling $110.8M in US/Canada…

Disney’s first Fox release under the combined regime, the faith-based DeVon Franklin produced Breakthrough notched second place in its opening day yesterday with an estimated $1.7M at 2,764 runs behind New Line/DC’s Shazam! which took No. 1 in his second Wednesday with $1.96M (-39% from Tuesday at 4,306) for a running…

For the first time since 2014, Easter won’t have a huge multi-quadrant event film opening and dominating this weekend, and as we explained last week, that’s due to Disney dating Avengers: Endgame on the calendar next Friday. The Russo Brothers-directed Marvel film is expected to be one of the five highest grossing…

EXCLUSIVE: In a time when cynicism and skeptics run rampant, Breakthrough looks to offer a moment of comfort and hope via the story of Jim Allison. Making its world premiere at SXSW on March 9, the documentary tells the tale of a stubborn man's visionary quest to find a cure for cancer. Directed by Bill Haney, the doc…

“He’s been underwater for more than 15 minutes,” one first responder says. “This is gonna be a recovery, not a rescue,” another frets. But then they find him. Joyce (Chrissy Metz) gets the kind of call every parent dreads in the first trailer for Breakthrough, a faith-based drama formerly titled The Impossible. Her…

EXCLUSIVE: Dennis Haysbert has been cast in Fox 2000’s Breakthrough (previously titled The Impossible), the faith-based drama based on the true story of Joyce Smith's account of her son's miraculous recovery detailed in her novel The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection…

True Blood alum Sam Trammell is on the call sheet for Fox 2000’s Roxann Dawson-directed film, The Impossible, a faith-based true story of Joyce Smith’s account of how her faith and prayer led to her son’s recovery after he was proclaimed lifeless. Chrissy Metz stars as Smith, along with Josh Lucas, Mike Colter, and…

Josh Stamberg, who co-starred in Showtime’s The Affair, has been added to the cast of Stephanie Turner’s drama, Justine, along with Bridget Kallal and Ravi Cabot-Conyers.  Scandal‘s Darby Stanchfield, Glynn Turman, newcomer Daisy Prescott, and Turner also star in the film about a single mom who takes a job as a…

20th Century Fox is doing some major shuffling of some titles for this year and 2019. The release date for the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which has been going through some speed bumps with its directors, has been pushed up from December 25 to November 2 — the original release date for the X-Men sequel Dark Phoenix…

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Lucas is the latest to come aboard Fox 2000’s The Impossible, the faith-based drama based on the true story of Joyce Smith's account of her son’s miraculous recovery, which she detailed in her novel, The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection. Lucas joins a…

EXCLUSIVE: After a weekend where the faith-based film I Can Only Imagine overperformed with $17M at the box office, another one over at Fox 2000 just found its pastor. Topher Grace has been cast in the label’s faith-based drama feature The Impossible, which is being directed by Roxann Dawson. The new title may be Break…