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UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Sony's Men In Black: International performed in line with pre-weekend industry projections, landing $73.7M at the international box office. Added to domestic's fizzle, the global launch crossed the century mark with $102.2M. Offshore tracking is on par with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 19%…

For Simon Kinberg, the buck stops here when it comes to the failure of Dark Phoenix to live up to the commercial and critical success of previous films in the X-men franchise. "I'm here and I'm saying when a movie doesn't work, put it on me," Kinberg said on the KCRW podcast The Business. "I'm the writer/director of…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE, writethru with actuals: Disney/Fox’s Dark Phoenix came in below Sunday's estimate with an international box office opening of $103.7M in 53 markets, per the actuals. Combined with a heavily singed domestic bow, the global debut was $136.5M, lower than pre-weekend projections from the industry. The…

Dark Phoenix was not the X-Men movie that moviegoers were looking forward to: Critics showed that with a 22% Rotten Tomatoes score, while audiences demonstrated that both in exits (B- CinemaScore, lowest ever for the franchise, and an awful 69% positive on PostTrak) and with their wallets, only spending $33M…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday 7:24 AM post: Here’s a trend: three franchise films in a row this summer —Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Secret Life of Pets 2, and Dark Phoenix — opened to roughly half of what their previous films did. And we may have a fourth title next weekend, if Men in Black International…

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: While it’s flailing domestically and certainly struggling abroad, Disney/Fox's Dark Phoenix had a $15.2M Friday in China, rising about 26% over Thursday and on the first full day of the Dragon Boat Festival. The cume there through yesterday is estimated at roughly $28M with a solid No. 1 showing…

After 12 films in 20 years including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, we are now told this is the end of the road for the enormously successful, sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good X-Men franchise. Of course, in the Marvel world you should learn to never say never, but following the Avengers: Endgame finale and now…

Illumination/Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 might win over U.S./Canada this weekend with a projected $60M, but Disney/Fox’s Dark Phoenix is expected to take over the world with at least a $170M global day-and-date launch. In what is the last Fox/Marvel X-Men movie before Disney’s MCU likely reboots the mutant…

In the weekend showdown on June 7-9 between Illumination/Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets 2 and Fox/Disney’s X-Men finale Dark Phoenix, the household critters are poised to beat the mutants in their openings, $63M+ to $50M. Some B.O. analysts think Pets 2 could even do more, maybe as high as $70M. The first 2016…

Just before today’s WonderCon panel, featuring the filmmakers and cast of Dark Phoenix (the latest X-Men film from Fox), a message over the public address system informed the crowd at the Anaheim Convention Center that no time would be allotted for audience questions. There was an amused murmur from the crowd that…

Dark Phoenix has a new trailer: 20th Century Fox has released the new clip for the latest installment of the X-Men franchise, which is set to be released on June 7 2019. The film stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee…

Fox just made a slew of release date changes. Instead of opening Alita: Battle Angel on Dec. 21, she now goes on Feb. 14, 2019. Instead, Fox is releasing, what we hear, is a PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 on Dec. 21. They’ve listed it as untitled Deadpool movie. For Alita, it’s about the date, to have the first movie…