UPDATE, writethru: Warner Bros/New Line's James Wan-produced horror pic The Curse Of La Llorona haunted cinemas in 71 overseas markets this frame, opening to $30M at the international box office. Along with domestic, the global bow is $56.5M.

In many countries, the Easter weekend is bracketed by days off on the Friday …

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Akira Akbar has inked with ICM Partners.

Akbar recently starred as Lashana Lynch's daughter, Monica Rambeau who sees a mentor in Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel which recently crossed $1 billion at the global box office.

Akbar also portrayed the younger child version of Susan Kelechi Watson’s c…

UPDATED with video. Brie Larson, fresh off her star turn in Captain Marvel, said her decision to direct the feature film Unicorn Store on Netflix was rooted in a desire to use the industry capital conferred by her Oscar win and rising fortunes as an actor.

“We have to break these boundaries,” she said during an appeara…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Shazam! is the word at the international box office this weekend, with the Warner Bros/New Line/DC title striking past the $100M mark in its debut. On 40,000 screens in 79 offshore markets, the David F Sandberg-directed family superhero pic grossed $102M. The global opening is $158.6M when…

Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel has superpowered her way past the $1B mark worldwide. Brie Larson’s Carol Danvers crossed the milestone with Tuesday’s grosses included and now stands at $358.1M domestic with $644.5M at the international box office for a combined $1,002.6M global.

The flying ace with the energized fists…

UPDATE, writethru: Disney's Dumbo, the live-action adaptation of the beloved 1941 classic, grossed $71M at the international box office this weekend. Liftoff is below pre-opening projections which sources pegged in the $80M-$90M range for the Tim Burton-directed pic. The main issue here, which we noted in our preview…

UPDATE, writethru: Captain Marvel remained at the overseas helm this weekend, adding $52.1M in her third frame. The Disney/Marvel title has now grossed $588.8M at the international box office for $910.3M worldwide. The scores for Carol Danvers blast her to the No. 10 spot on the all-time superhero charts, both…

FRIDAY UPDATE: Disney/Marvel’s Captain Marvel hit $825M globally through Thursday as she wings her way to around $900M in the third frame. The international box office for Carol Danvers as of yesterday is $538.6M with domestic at $286.4M. At those numbers, and unadjusted, she has overtaken Spider-Man and Wonder Woman…

A little more than two years after his Oscar-winning feature directorial debut and $255M-plus grossing Get Out, filmmaker Jordan Peele has returned with his second film, Us about an African American family and how their serene life turns to chaos after encountering their doppelgängers.

Universal shifted the pic, produc…

UPDATE, writethru: Captain Marvel held her firm grip on the international box office this weekend, grossing an additional $119.7M from 54 overseas markets. That lifts the offshore cume to $494M and worldwide to $760.2M.

The Disney/Marvel tentpole has now surpassed the overseas lifetimes of several superhero pics inclu…

5th Weekend Writethru, Sunday AM: Studios don’t enjoy playing into a Disney/Marvel movie, nor do they enjoy playing in the wake of one, and with Captain Marvel staying strong with a $69.3M second weekend, -55%, per Disney, most of the wide entries —Wonder Park, Captive State, and Five Feet Apart –are essentially…