5th writethru/update Sunday AM,after Friday and Saturday posts: w/chart
With the CBS-Viacom merger on the horizon, the Tiffany network’s film label, CBS Films — which will shutter its theatrical arm later this year — opened its penultimate film, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, to the distrib’s second-best result…
Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw isn’t going anywhere and will stay put in No. 1 this coming weekend with $28M-$30M, a decline of 50%-53%. This as five wide entries flood the market: Paramount/Nickelodeon/Walden Media/MRC’s storied IP Dora and the Lost City of Gold, CBS Films/eOne/Lionsgate’s Scary Stories to Tell in the…
FX Networks is staying the course in its program acquisition strategy under new owner Disney, continuing to be a leading buyer of marquee movie titles.
FX’s latest big-screen acquisitions include Sony’s hits Spider-Man: Far from Home and Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Universal’s Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and…
5th Writethru Sunday AM after Saturday update: Universal’s Hobbs & Shawsaw a solid Saturday with an estimated $20.6M, which kept the pic on track toward its $60.8M opening this weekend. This is exactly where Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout opened a year ago, which carried us into August, and we can expect…
The first Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw will gas up overseas tomorrow, and start U.S./Canada previews on Thursday at 7PM, but the Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham vehicle isn’t expected to start off at the top speeds like the last pic in the franchise, Fate of the Furious, which floored it around the world to…
Saturday night’s premiere of the Universal action film Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was suddenly interrupted when a bottle of water spilled over an electrical outlet and created sparks, a source told Deadline.
The incident inside the Dolby Theater in Hollywood happened just before 8 p.m. PT, scaring attendees…
Universal’s Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shawlanded on tracking this morning and the expectation is that the film will make between $55M-$65M. The Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham pic opens on Aug. 2 largely around the world in 64 markets with China coming later on Aug. 23.
Some factors to consider here about the…
The first weekend of August hasn’t seen any life at the box office since 2016’s The Suicide Squad opened to a record $133.6 million, but that’s about to change this year when Universal opens Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw on August 2. The studio just dropped the pic’s trailer for its Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham…
Despite buzz that Disney will drop a Star Wars: Episode IX trailer on Super Bowl Sunday, we’re hearing that’s not the case.
Last year, the studio broke Star Wars promo-form and dropped a teaser during the NFL championship game for Solo: A Star Wars Story, but this year the thinking is that Episode IX can feasibly…
Eddie Marsan, the British actor of Showtime’s Ray Donovan and Studio 8/Sony’s White Boy Rick, has joined the cast of the Fast & Furious’ spin-off Hobbs and Shaw starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. The project reteams Marsan with his Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde helmer David Leitch.Â
On Ray Donovan Eddie…
"We either gonna get along or we gonna get it on," says Dwayne Johnson. Johnson shared a first-look photo of himself and Jason Statham in an on-screen staredown in Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw on his Instagram account.
"Great first week of shooting our Fast & Furious spin-off, 'HOBBS & SHAW' with my ace…
