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Riverdale has leapt over Christina Applegate's Dead To Me to become the most watched Netflix title of the week in the UK. The CW's teen drama, which is based on the Archie Comics character, moved from number to the top spot. It's a notable success for the KJ Apa and Lili Reinhart-fronted series, which was recently…

Dwayne Johnson for president? Not likely anytime soon, but then again it could all come down to two mysterious words. In an interview for the May cover story of Rolling Stone, Johnson was asked about the stories that keep cropping up these past few years about the Rampage actor following in the footsteps of Ronald…

Universal Pictures crossed $5 billion at the global box office for the second time in the studio's 105-year history with The Fate of the Furious and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me 3 revving up their 2017 coffers. The global total to date for the studio, specifically, is $5.003 billion, which breaks out as…

UPDATED, 3:15 PM: Universal has moved the DreamWorks Animation sequel Trolls 2 from February 14, 2020, to April 17 that year, taking the spot that was being held for an Untitled Universal Event Film. PREVIOUSLY, October 4: Universal is moving the ninth chapter of Fast & Furious to Easter weekend 2020, specifically…

UPDATED, Tuesday 12:19 PM: Final numbers are in for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and yesterday it took in another $55.5M to bring its global gross to $326M (that includes the $247.8M thru the U.S. Memorial Day holiday). The $326M earned by the fifth installment of the Jerry Bruckheimer…

Universal Pictures' The Fate of the Furious, which is expected to take in another $35.5M to $36M domestically, has risen to a big $636.3M overseaas. The estimated take for the weekend is $171M as it plays out in its 65 markets. That means it will push past $750M by Sunday, which would be the fastest for any Universal…

8th Update, Final: Universal’s final figures for F. Gary Gray’s The Fate of the Furious. $532M worldwide debut, whipping Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ $529M. Broken out that’s $433.2M abroad, beating Jurassic World‘s $316.7M previous foreign record launch, and $98.8M. Thanks to Fate, Uni speeds past the billion mark…

Fate of the Furious actor Tyrese Gibson is doing some damage control after a public relations crash earlier this week. In a clip posted Monday on BET’s website, Gibson launched an ugly, sexist rant against “sluts” and “skeezers,” and is now apologizing by saying, in part, “My mother taught me better than this.” In the…

Yesterday we reported that the Super Bowl LI spot for Disney’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 made a lot of noise on Twitter during the game. However, social media monitor RelishMix waits a bit after the Big Game — 24 hours to be exact — and measures all the action emanating from those movie trailers dropped on…

EXCLUSIVE: Talk about dropping a trailer into fifth gear. Universal’s Sunday launch of The Fate of the Furious trailer became the largest debut ever, setting a global record with 139M views in its first 24 hours and zooming past the 127.6M first-day views recently posted by Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. A perfect…