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When Deadline runs its Most Valuable Blockbuster film profitability countdown each year, readers often ask about certain films that make big bucks but don’t make the list because they don’t hit the minimum on domestic grosses. Here are five pics that deserve honorable mentions for 2019. (The takeaway for all the…

5th Update, Sunday AM writethru final w/chart: Once all the summer Disney franchise pics are out of the way, it gives low-and-mid-budget films some space to breathe. And that’s what we’re seeing in recent weeks, with the debuts of such pics as Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Good Boys, and now…

4th Update, Sunday AM writethru following Saturday AM post, w/updated chart: There isn’t a studio executive out there who would disagree: the weekend opening for Universal’s Good Boys –now at $21M this morning per Uni– is fantastic for the theatrical business. Saturday rang up $7.3M last night after Friday’s $8.3M…

UPDATED, Thursday AM: Sony’s Angry Birds 2 ranked 4th yesterday with $1.6M, -36% for a running two day total of $4.2M. Disney’s Lion King and Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw are currently fighting over No. 1 Wednesday with $2.3M a piece. CBS Films’ Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark took third place with just under $2M and…

Good Boys may be about a trio of 12-year-olds, but with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg on board as two of the producers, you can bet this movie isn’t exactly for 12 year olds. In fact the filthy language coming out of their young mouths is more Goodfellas than what we hear from “good” boys and easily earns it a…

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is known by the masses as the creator of the CW’s Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He’s also worked on numerous TV shows like Glee, Looking, Big Love and Supergirl. Although he does TV fare and soapy hyper-realistic teen angst well, Aguirre-Sacasa’s storytelling abilities on the…

When tween actors Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon got cast in Good Boys, they were eager to work with producer Seth Rogen. Except they hadn't seen Rogen in the role they were hoping to channel for their own film. So Noon says they got permission from their parents and then got together to watch Superba…

Preteenage madness and in-between sadness collide in Good Boys, a youthful comedy that has its world premiere tonight at SXSW. Two weeks into sixth-grade, three best buds experience some highs and lows in the redband trailer. Check it out above (keyword: redband). Here’s the synopsis: After getting invited to their…

EXCLUSIVE: Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon and Midori Francis are joining Universal Pictures/Point Grey’s R-rated comedy Good Boys, about four 12-year-old boys who skip school and embark on a day-long adventure fraught with comedic peril across the San Fernando Valley. Jacob Tremblay is already headlining…

Universal had the release date of Aug. 16, 2019 staked out for an event film and they’re designating Point Grey’s coming-of-age story Good Boys to that date. Producers Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver bring their signature R-rated twist to this classic coming-of-age story staring Room and Wonder actor Jacob…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures acquired Good Boys, a randy comedy vehicle for Jacob Tremblay — the young star of Room and Wonder — with a script by Lee Eisenberg & Gene Stupnitsky and the duo set to make its directorial debut. Universal acquired a package that came with a green light and a…