8TH UPDATE/WRITETHRU, MONDAY 8 AM: Warner Bros.’ Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is finishing lower than its $52.4M weekend estimate yesterday, now at $51.8M. That 69% drop ties with Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine as one of the steepest second-weekend drops for a superhero film ever. BvS weathered a post-Easter…
None of the major studios has any wide releases this Friday, and spring break is still in effect. This only provides a quintessential opportunity for Warner Bros’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice to hold No. 1 a bit better than originally projected. On Monday, analysts had the film -65% for a second FSS of $58M, but…
After coming out of nowhere in 2014 to gross $62.6M on a budget of only about $2M, the faith-based film God’s Not Dead was a bona fide hit and extremely profitable. Can lightning strike twice? Here’s the new trailer for God’s Not Dead 2, starring Melissa Joan Hart as a Christian teacher who is forced before a judge…
Pure Flix Entertainment, the faith-based company behind 2014’s hit God's Not Dead, has unveiled its own U.S. theatrical distribution arm. It has hired Regal Entertainment VP Film Ken Rather to lead the new division, with former Disney, Picturehouse and FilmDistrict exec Daniel Lange aboard as General Sales…
A new trailer just dropped for the sequel to God’s Not Dead, the faith-based film which came out of nowhere last year to make more than $60 million on a budget of $2 million. The film, which looks like it was made for a higher budget, stars Melissa Joan Hart as a school teacher who ends up in a Scopes-type lawsuit for…
The Goldbergs costar Hayley Orrantia is set to lead God's Not Dead 2, sequel to the hugely profitable 2014 religious drama. As with its predecessor, God’s Not Dead 2 depicts the debate between a skeptic and an evangelical Christian who come into conflict in an educational setting, but in this outing the roles will be…
