Universal’s seven-quel Furious 7 was off 2% in its weekend actual from its Sunday estimate with a second frame of $59.6M. Furious 7 still outstripped its predecessor’s domestic B.O. of $238.7M in 10 days to becoming the highest grossing title in the franchise with $251.5M, and its weekend haul is still the third…

This doesn’t happen often: Four of the weekend box office’s top 10 are Specialty releases, while a debuting fifth had the year’s best per-theater average.

Among the top 10, TWC’s Woman In Gold, RADiUS’ It Follows, Bleecker Street’s Danny Collins and A24’s While We’re Young took the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th spots…

Amazon and Bleecker Street have struck a multi-year content licensing agreement that will see the Prime Instant Video service be the exclusive subscription home for Bleecker Street theatrical releases that starts with the Al Pacino-starrer Danny Collins, and the upcoming Tobey Maguire-starrer Pawn Sacrifice.

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This weekend’s Specialty Box Office did not follow the form set last week, which had been dominated by It Follows. Of the several openers reporting Sunday, the best per-theater numbers came from Danny Collins, a music-minded pic starring Al Pacino that is the first full-fledged roll-out from Bleecker Street, the…

Al Pacino as a rock star?  That’s the fact of the matter in the new film, Danny Collins, in which the Oscar-winning legend plays a musical superstar who is more into sex and drugs than in furthering his artistic ambition at this stage in his career. So does Pacino, singing for the first time on screen, pull this all…

Bleecker Street this weekend will begin making its footprint in the specialty space with the Al Pacino starrer Danny Collins. The company, founded by former Focus Features co-CEO Andrew Karpen, had picked up the title early in its formation. Danny Collins boasts some heavyweight stars, but less clear is whether the…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning his first Oscar three years ago at age 82 for Beginners, another major Hollywood honor is coming Christopher Plummer’s way when he gets a hand and footprint ceremony at the TCL Chinese Theatre on March 27th in an event sponsored as part of the TCM Classic Movie Festival. The network is…

Andrew Karpen’s Bleecker Street is continuing to shore up deals for its nascent slate of films, inking a multi-year distribution deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for Blu-ray, DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD. UPHE will handle marketing, sales and distribution services on those platforms under terms…

Bleecker Street, Andrew Karpen’s newbie indie U.S. distributor, has sealed a multi-year output deal with Canadian distributor Elevation Pictures to distribute its films across Canada. As part of the deal, Elevation — run by Laurie May, Noah Segal and financier Teddy Schwarzman of Black Bear Pictures — will handle all…

At 74, Al Pacino isn’t just getting warmed up, he’s on a streak.  He had two dramas this fall: Manglehorn, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival, in which he plays a small-town Texan locksmith, and Barry Levinson’s The Humbling, in which he portrays an aged actor who has a quirky romance (which is playing at the Aw…