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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Whenever Paramount decides to reboot Jack Reacher, they may want to re-consider casting Dwayne Johnson in the lead role. The wrestler-turned-thespian took to Facebook tonight to answer fan’s questions, teasing Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw 2 and talking about the part that got away: the title role in Par’s feature…

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 & Shaw saw 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…

If it is known for anything, the Fast & Furious franchise has always been state-of-the-art in terms of stunt work, and now with a detour to a spinoff featuring the characters played by Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, that is more true than ever. The lumberingly titled Fast & Furious Pres…

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 & Shaw landed 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…