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Clickbait, Netflix’s eight-episode thriller series, captured the top spot on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart in the first full week after its release. After starting to stream on August 25, the show went on to capture 1.46 billion minutes of viewing from August 30 to September 5, according to Nielsen. The company…

Manifest, the NBC series whose surge of streaming popularity led Netflix to bring it back for a fourth season, returned to top Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart. The 42 available episodes across three seasons racked up almost 1.4 billion minutes of total viewing from August 23 to 29. It’s the sixth weekly win for…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Emma Stone has closed a deal to star in the sequel to Cruella, in what is a very good sign for Disney as it secures talent in the wake of some criticism of its theatrical-Disney+ Premier model. Cruella, due to the pandemic, was released in theaters and on Disney+ PVOD tier on May 26, earning…

EXCLUSIVE: VFX powerhouse Framestore has hired Cruella and Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil VFX Supervisor Damien Stumpf. Stumpf joins the Bafta and Oscar-winning firm’s growing Montreal studio. Originally from France, Stumpf began his career as a digital artist in 2003 at Parisian boutique studio BUF. He became one of…

EXCLUSIVE: In a recent Samba TV measurement, 783K U.S. households tuned into Universal’s The Boss Baby: Family Business on the studio’s streaming service Peacock over the four-day July 4th holiday weekend. That number for the DreamWorks Animation title beats the four-day Memorial Day debut of Disney’s live-action pic C…

UPDATE: Universal's F9 is gearing up to hit the $500M mark globally, a milestone it will cross on Monday as it becomes the first Hollywood movie to do so during the pandemic era, and the first since any studio film originally released during 2019. The Justin Lin-helmed title will also join China's Hi, Mom and Detective…

Netflix’s Lucifer finished as the top draw in the U.S. for the week of May 24 to 30, according to Nielsen. The show’s fifth season landed on Netflix at the end of May. After Fox canceled the drama after three seasons, Netflix picked it up, to the delight of fans. The show’s 83 episodes conjured almost 1.3 billion…

UPDATE: International box office markets this weekend were again rife with holdovers doing solid business, while also awaiting a new major title to swing summer into full gear. Lionsgate/Millennium’s Stateside champ, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard was the only signifiant new opener in the session with an estimated $7.8M…

UPDATE: With no major new releases, this was a strong holdover weekend at the international box office, led by last week's champ, New Line/Warner Bros' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, followed by Disney's Cruella and Paramount's A Quiet Place Part II. In the case of Conjuring 3, it crossed $100M global after…

UPDATE, writethru: The horror genre was the biggest global draw this weekend, demonstrating that the communal theatrical experience of scary movies is alive and well. New Line/Warner Bros' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It led the international box office with $26.8M from 43 markets while Paramount's A Quiet Place…

Sunday AM Writethru:  It use to be that the studios would space their horror movies apart on the schedule. It’s not usual that one would open up immediately after the other for fear of cannibalizing the same audience. That didn’t happen this weekend as New Line’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It opened to $24M…

No surprise here: Disney is capitalizing on last weekend’s success of Cruella in theaters and on Disney+ Premier, with a sequel already in the works with the pic’s director Craig Gillespie and writer Tony McNamara looking to team again. Said a Disney spokesperson, "We are very pleased with Cruella's box office…