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…

Robert De Niro’s presence in the new Roberto Duran boxing bio Hands Of Stone only served to remind me how inferior this picture is to many other films revolving around the sport including Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic Raging Bull, which won De Niro an Oscar for his immortal portrayal of Jake La Motta. As I say in my…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: In an effort to spur word of mouth among older male audiences, and to draw a sizable Hispanic and African American demo, The Weinstein Company will release its biopic Hands Of Stone about famed boxer Roberto Duran in about 800 theaters this Friday. That’s before going wide in 2,500 locations on August 31…

Boxing legend Roberto Duran said today during a Twitter live-chat to punch up the marketing around the upcoming Duran biopic Hands Of Stone that he would like to get GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump into the ring. Trump launched his campaign with and has not backed down from his hard-line stance on illegal…

The Weinstein Company is gearing up for the August 26 bow of Hands of Stone, the Roberto Duran boxing biopic starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro that the company scooped up during Cannes 2015. Usher co-stars as Duran’s rival Sugar Ray Leonard, and Ellen Barkin, Ruben Blades and Ana de Armas co-star. Duran became…

On Monday, the Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to Robert De Niro with a special Official Selection screening of The Weinstein Co’s upcoming boxing drama Hands Of Stone. On hand was Harvey Weinstein, who spoke passionately to the packed house at the Palais about the actor; they go way back and are neighbors in Tribec…

Having both played boxing champions onscreen — Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Edgar Ramirez as Roberto Duran in Hands of Stone — how do these pugilists differ? “They can be very vulnerable,” Ramirez told Deadline yesterday before the Cannes screening of Hands of Stone, “These men are larger than…

During the introduction of Robert De Niro’s tribute tonight at the Cannes Film Festival that preceded a special screening of Hands Of Stone, Harvey Weinstein told the packed house at the Grand Theatre Lumiere just how much of a mensch the actor is. It was during the production of Miramax’s Cop Land, which marked…

Since the Official Selection lineup was first unveiled on April 14, Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux has steadily added titles to the list. The latest promises to be a grand affair with The Weinstein Company’s Hands Of Stone set for a Special Screening on Monday, May 16 in homage to star Robert De Niro who…