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UPDATE, WRITETHRU TUESDAY: Studio actuals are in for all Warner Bros films, and also for Disney, while we have estimates still on what was a hodgepodge of titles offshore this weekend. There were no major wide releases in the session, although staggered rollouts began on Warner Bros/Village Roadshow's The Legend Of Tar…

6TH WRITETHRU Monday final: At a time in Hollywood when studios are dusting off old blockbuster classics like Star Wars and Jurassic Park and re-energizing them, 20th Century Fox's Independence Day: Resurgence alienated generations of fans this weekend, with $41M. No amount of advance marketing, from a Super Bowl spot…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Monday final 12:50 and 2:04 PM PST: Fox’s Independence Day Resurgence landed with a lesser than expected $100.1M start (down from the $102.13M Sunday estimate) overseas to take the No. 1 spot at the international box office this weekend. Roland Emmerich’s 20-years-later sequel invaded 58 markets and…

EXCLUSIVE: As the Roland Emmerich-directed sci-fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence kicks off the first weekend of summer box office in North America today, Universal Pictures has closed a deal for the filmmaker’s next epic-sized sci-fi picture. The studio spent seven figures to acquire Moonfall, a spec script that…

By tomorrow, Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory will cross $200M becoming the fastest animated pic to do so in one week at the domestic B.O. Previously, Toy Story 3 (final box office $415M) and Minions ($336M) accomplished that feat in nine days. Through five days, Dory counts $177.7M. Yesterday, the Andrew Stanton-Angus…

Even though original Independence Day star Will Smith loudly declared this week that instantaneous social media messaging makes it impossible for studios to shield subpar movies going into opening weekend, 20th Century Fox becomes the latest studio to try doing just that. 20th Century Fox has done a shrewd job putting…

The War of 1996 may have annihilated more than 3 billion people, but the mood couldn't have been more cheery last night at the Zanuck Theater on the Fox lot, where Independence Day writer-director Roland Emmerich and his stars, Jeff Goldblum and Vivica A. Fox, gathered to celebrate the landmark blockbuster's…

“We’ve gotta remind them: Earth is not for the taking!” Coming June 24, 20th Century Fox’s Independence Day: Resurgence from director Roland Emmerich and producers Dean Devlin and Harald Kloser with Emmerich features Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Brent Spiner, Charlotte…

Twentieth Century Fox, one of the second to last studios to present today, just went out with a bang, with James Cameron coming on stage to announce four Avatar sequels (vs. the previous three), confirmation of Deadpool 2 going forward and the fact that in 2017, Hugh Jackman’s Greatest Showman on Earth was a go for…

Just in case you forgot in the haze of Batman and Superman not being best friends, 20th Century Fox has released a new TV spot to remind you that Independence Day: Resurgence is coming this summer and with it, the second wave of alien invaders who nearly destroyed planet earth in the original film back in 1996. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Centropolis Entertainment principals Roland and Ute Emmerich have elevated Marco Shepherd to a new post, Head of Production and Development. Shepherd, who started at the production company in 2005, takes the job at a time when Centropolis has a lot percolating. “We are excited to have Marco in this new…

EXCLUSIVE: A pregame Super Bowl spot that aired just before kickoff certainly has paid off for Disney and Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. The trailer for the film, which bows summer, was shown to have had the most social activity of all trailers from the major studios in the 24-hour window after the Big Game. Of…