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Another day, another $20M-plus for Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the box office. On Wednesday the Rian Johnson-directed movie earned $21.5M according to Disney taking its domestic running total to $444.9M. The movie will easily surpass the half billion mark by Dec. 31, as well as $1 billion worldwide…

Sunday AM Update: Paramount’s Daddy’s Home 2 is stealing second place away from 20th Century Fox’s Murder on the Orient Express, $30M to $28.2M. Daddy’s Home 2 benefited quite well from Saturday matinees, given that it’s a family pic, seeing a 6% rise on Saturday with $11.6M. Murder on the Orient Express was +$75K…

Apparently the holiday spirit is contagious when it comes to sequels to hit comedies. Last week it was the 2016 raunchy smash Bad Moms that spawned its equally raunchy R-rated Christmas-themed sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas. Now we’ve got the decorations back out for the inevitable sequel to 2015’s Mark Wahlberg-Will Fer…

Marvel’s son of Odin will continue to own the box office with an estimated $60M in Weekend 2, -51%; a three-day take that’s roughly $5M shy from what Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 pulled in during its second frame ($65.2M), and that was during May. It’s just further proof of the power of the off-season at the…

Conan O’Brien’s TBS’s late-night show has unveiled its guest list for its second trip to Harlem's Apollo Theater. Stephen Colbert kicks off the week of broadcasts from the famed NYC theater, on Monday, November 6. O'Brien visited Colbert's Late Show, where talk immediately turned to David Letterman, who previously…

Not to be outdone by some bad moms this holiday season, Paramount Pictures just released a new trailer for Daddy’s Home 2, the second installment in the Will Ferrell- Mark Wahlberg competing fathers franchise, this time around adding grandpas Mel Gibson and John Lithgow. Tough guy Gibson plays tough guy Wahlberg’s…

Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg have made peace from the first Daddy’s Home, the Paramount comedy that grossed $242.8 million worldwide and quickly spawned a sequel. So who better to replace any tension then Mel Gibson, who plays Wahlberg’s bad-ass dad, and John Lithgow, vamping as Ferrell’s gushy pops, in a sequel…

Gotham actor John Doman has come aboard Hans Petter Moland’s Hard Powder from Michael Shamberg and StudioCanal. It stars Liam Neeson as Nels who, seeking revenge for his murdered son, gets entangled in a turf war between a local gangster and a Native American mafia boss. Emmy Rossum and Laura Dern also co-star in the…

EXCLUSIVE: John Cena, the WWE champ who has been transitioning to movies with Trainwreck and Daddy’s Home, has signed on to co-star in the Daddy’s Home sequel about to get underway in Boston. Cena served up a macho cameo at the end of the first film, and this time he figures prominently in the sequel storyline. He…

Paramount pictures has announced that Daddy’s Home 2, the sequel to the 2015 comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg will hit theaters on November 10 this year. In the shadow of the mammoth success of Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens during the 2015 holiday season, few films could stay alive. Paramount’s Da…