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SATURDAY UPDATE: After taking the act to China on Friday, Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is crossing $500M worldwide today, and will close in on $600M through the end of Sunday, landing just south of that next milestone. With Saturday estimates, the split through today is expected to hit $144.5M…

HBO’s sports comedy Ballers starring Dwayne Johnson will end after its fifth season, which kicks off Sunday on HBO. Johnson announced the news in a thank-you post to fans on Instagram. “My heart 🖤 is full of gratitude to all of you for rockin' with us every season,” Johnson wrote. Read his full post below. Created…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Companies has hired Maya Lasry as its Chief Marketing Officer, a move the brings her over from Universal Pictures, where she spent nearly seven years most recently as Director of Creative Advertising. The move reunites Lasry and Seven Bucks after she spearheaded…

HBO received a blessing of sorts from the TV Gods this past weekend with the premiere of megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones and the second episode of the second season of Succession. Coming in almost the same as the series high of the August 11 Season 2 debut, the Brian Cox-led global media moguls drama snared…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw zoomed into Korea on Wednesday, scoring the biggest opening day for the franchise, and through Thursday surpassed 1M admissions. Korea is the last market to release before China welcomes the spinoff next Friday, August 23. Through Thursday, the international…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Landing in line with Saturday's projections, Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw got off the starting block with an estimated $120M at the international box office. When including domestic, the global cume through Sunday is $180.8M. Across 63 offshore opening markets, the Dwayne…

5th Writethru Sunday AM after Saturday update: Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw saw a solid Saturday with an estimated $20.6M, which kept the pic on track toward its $60.8M opening this weekend. This is exactly where Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout opened a year ago, which carried us into August, and we can expect…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has just locked what is arguably its biggest commitment to a feature film. In a dramatic switch of distributors for for a tentpole-sized star package, Netflix has greenlit and set a 2020 production start for the Rawson Marshall Thurber-directed and -scripted Red Notice. The film is a globetrotting…

Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has secured an August 23 release date in China. Fast & Furious is a huge property in the market where Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also both excel individually. The last F&F movie, The Fate Of The Furious, did about $393M in the Middle Kingdom in 2017 and remains…

MTV will honor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with the Generation Award during the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards, the network said today. Johnson returns to the show after hosting in 2016 with Kevin Hart. This year’s show is hosted by "Shazam!" star Zachary Levi and will air on Monday, June 17 at 9:00 PM ET/PT. The Generation…

An executive producer behind the American Ninja Warrior franchise and Hell's Kitchen, Arthur Smith is always looking to break the mold and push limits within the reality competition space, doing so most recently with NBC's The Titan Games. Co-created by A. Smith and Dwayne Johnson, who also serves as host, and…

Jaume Collet-Serra is in negotiations to direct Black Adam, Warner Bros and New Line’s spinoff of their DC hit Shazam!. Adam Sztykiel (Rampage) wrote the latest draft of the pic, which will star Dwayne Johnson. Collet-Serra and Johnson just finished collaborating on Disney’s Jungle Cruise, so they look to be sailing…