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Heaven Is For Real, the 2014 faith-based movie inspired by Pastor Todd Burpo’s bestselling book of the same name, was a sleeper hit for TriStar/Sony, grossing more than $100 million on a $12 million budget. Now Sony Pictures TV has put together a Heaven Is For Real drama series project, which has been set up at <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/nbc/" id="auto-tag_nbc"…

Heaven Is For Real, the faith-based movie starring Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly and Thomas Haden Church, had a <a title="Box Office Final: 'Heaven' Is Real Deal Behind 'Captain America' Which Shoots Past $200M; 'Rio 2′ Perches At No. 3; 'Transcendence' Short Circuited"…

OPENING: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (SONY), $91.6M; Belle (FSL) limited release in 4 runs with a nice per screen average of $26,664. 8th UPDATE, Monday, PM: Final numbers show The Amazing Spider-Man 2 gross at $91.6M. Key to what the long-term performance will be of ASM2 will be how well it holds in its second weekend…

OPENING: Heaven Is For Real (SONY) stellar at $22.5M (3-day) and $29.5M (5-day) for No. 2; Transcendence (WB) despondent at No. 4 with $10.8M; A Haunted House 2 (OPRD) $8.8M; Bears (DIS) hibernating with $4.7M. 5TH UPDATE, 2:45 PM: The final numbers are in for the box office Top 20, and Sony/TriStar has a lot to…

Even with taking over Captain America: The Winter Soldier‘s IMAX theaters this weekend, the fact that it is a new sci-fi thriller, Johnny Depp’s the lead and it’s the only real newcomer with a shot at No. 1, Transcendence‘s debut near the top of the box office is doubtful this weekend based on Thursday night’s…

Heaven Is For Real is headed towards at least $3.7mil on its opening day today for TriStar Pictures with estimates looking like $20M for the 5-day, according to Sony. The best news is that the film, based on the best-selling Christian book, got an A+ CinemaScore for those 35 and under and an A overall. The film is the…

After the strong staying power of this weekend’s God’s Not Dead and the stronger than expected opening of Paramount Pictures’ Noah following on the heels of the surprise opening of Fox’s Son of God earlier this year, is there any doubt anymore Hollywood that if you build it, they will come? That’s three for three…