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UPDATE, WRITETHRU (with actuals): Summer is coming to an end in many markets around the world, but that didn't put a massive damper on the box office weekend internationally. Across the Top 10 titles, this frame saw a 46% increase versus last year, buoyed by the performances of Universal’s Jason Bourne and Fox’s Ice Ag…

UPDATED, Monday, 1:56 PM: International weekend grosses for two of the three openers came in higher than expected — in one case over $20M higher than anticipated as the Jackie Chan action comedy Skiptrace opened in China to a big $62.2M and gives Chan a new record in China (see related story). In seven markets, its…

Regardless of where the fifth installment of one of Fox’s most lucrative franchises ends up at the box office this weekend, Fox’s Ice Age: Collison Course opens with the largest promotional push for the IP in its 14-year history. While it’s not hard to bring in promo partners for a well-established franchise, it is…

Essentially, this week can be defined as a Star Trek celebration. Before opening the Skydance/Bad Robot threequel Star Trek Beyond, Paramount has a couple of fan activities planned that it hopes will escalate the opening weekend for the Justin Lin movie from its current low-$50 million projection up to $60M. Star Trek…

UPDATED WRITETHRU, 10:42 AM: For the second frame in a row and following a sizable expansion, Fox's Ice Age: Collision Course leads the international studio weekend with $53.5M. Directed by Mike Thurmeier, the fifth film in the animated franchise took the total markets to 51 this session and brought the overseas nut…

The terrorist attack in France that killed 85 and injured 100 during Bastille Day festivities Thursday night has sent shockwaves across the globe. In France, it also came a day after the opening of  Studiocanal's Bastille Day, starring Idris Elba as a CIA agent trying to thwart a terrorist attack on French soil, timed…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, TUESDAY AM PT: International finals are in and updated for another overseas weekend without a new major studio wide release, leaving room for China’s Cold War II to take the top spot as the summer box office holiday kicked off there in earnest. Also making a big impact was Bollywood’s Salman Khan…

With a clever wink at Gravity, the new trailer for this summer’s Ice Age: Collision Course sets the stage for the end of an era, with those pesky asteroids we all knew were coming finally dropping by. This look at the fifth pic in the pre-human franchise opens with Scrat the (mostly) silent sabre-toothed squirrel…

Fox has dropped the first trailer for Ice Age: Collision Course, the fifth chapter of the Blue Sky animated comedy franchise. Scrat's epic pursuit of the elusive acorn catapults him into the universe where he accidentally sets off a series of cosmic events that transform and threaten the Ice Age World. To save…

Twentieth Century Fox has moved Ice Age: Collision Course, the newly christened fifth chapter of its Blue Sky animated franchise, from July 15 to July 22, 2016. This will shift Sid, Manny, Ellie and company off their previous collision course with Sony’s Ghostbusters and two other pictures, the musical La La Land from…