Which of Deadline's disruptors has taken more advantage of shifts in the movie business than Uruguayan writer-director Fede Alvarez? By doing his second film on spec, he managed to own a majority stake in Don't Breathe, a horror film that cost $7 million and grossed $157 million worldwide. That brought him a payday…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

6TH WRITETHRU, Tuesday, updated with final actuals. So, what’s the ultimate leg factor for Sony/Screen Gems/Studio 6’s Don’t Breathe? Thanks to the Labor Day holiday, the second horror film from Fede Alvarez eased 40% for a $15.8 million second weekend and a $19.7M four-day gross. Already having bagged $55.1M, Don’t Br…

Many expected last weekend to be the second most lackluster of 2016, with no title exceeding $20M at the box office. Scratch that – it’s actually this coming weekend. Unlike the weekend of Jan. 22-24, when ticket sales bottomed to a 2016 low of $66.2M due to a brutal snowstorm that closed Northeast theaters, this…

7TH Update, Sunday AM Sony Screen Gems/Stage 6’s Don’t Breathe is on its way to a $26.1M opening after a fantastic Saturday. Don’t Breathe‘s opening not only gives Screen Gems its best August opener ever following 2010’s Takers ($20.5M), but it’s the third in a string of profitable Sony summer titles after The Shallows…

In order to convey the claustrophobic setting in Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe, renowned Spanish film composer Roque Baños decided on a unique approach to make "the house play the music." The majority of the film takes place in a house in a run down section of Detroit, and follows a group of youngsters who, in an attempt…

You can certainly tell it’s not only getting to be the dog days of summer but also the summer movie season, which is going out with a whimper — at least as far as this year’s obligatory cheapie Screen Gems end-of-August release goes. Don’t Breathe is a pretty good title for an ultra-violent, ultra-derivative and…

The summer box office hoopla is coming to a close, and you can always tell by how low the grosses go. Sixty-four percent of K-12 schools are back in session, as well as close to 60% of all colleges per ComScore and the type of impact that has on the B.O. is equivalent to multiplexes closing down during a nor’easter…

Screen Gems will host a Comic-Con screening of its horror thriller Don’t Breathe on Thursday at the UA Horton Plaza 8 in San Diego. The event will include a Q&A with Fede Alvarez, who directed, co-wrote and produced the pic. Stephen Lang stars as a wealthy blind man whose house is broken into by three friends (Jane…

It’s easy to think that if you’ve seen one “the hunter becomes the hunted” plot, you’ve seen them all. Then you watch something like the first trailer for Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe and you forget why you’d ever said such a thing. From Evil Dead remake helmer Fede Alvarez, the film follows a trio of reckless thieves…