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Oscar Best Picture winner The Shape of Water from Fox Searchlight and Lionsgate’s Hitman’s Bodyguard scored the most individual nominations at the 19th annual Golden Trailer Awards that were unveiled today. Each had eight nominations (including two from Bodyguard in the Trashiest Trailer category), with Disney’s Black…

Monday AM writethru, 7th update: Labor Day is coming in slightly better than anticipated, but it’s still one of the lowest finales to summer since 1999, when the four-day stretch totaled $98.3M. ComScore is figuring $95M-$100M for the four-day Labor Day weekend; however, some studios’ internal numbers think it could…

UPDATED, TUES. 10:30 AM: All grosses have been updated below. Looking ahead, Warner Bros. should see its Christopher Nolan epic Dunkirk cross the $400M worldwide milestone this week just as its superhero film Wonder Woman crossed $800M this weekend, with Japan to come on Friday. The studio’s Annabelle: Creation also…

China-based movie company East Light Film Co. has founded and bankrolled new Los Angeles-based indie film finance and production outfit Cristal Pictures, whose principals Chris Liu and Scott Einbinder just co-financed and co-produced the upcoming Ryan Reynolds pic Hitman’s Bodyguard. Liu and Einbinder will be co-CEOs…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has added Elodie Yung and Salma Hayek to join Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Gary Oldman in Hitman’s Bodyguard. The high octane action film will start production April 2 in London, directed by Kick Ass 2‘s Jeff Wadlow from a script by Tom O'Connor. Lionsgate is distributing in the…