Each year when Deadline runs its film profitability countdown, readers understandably ask about wildly profitable films, usually genre pictures, that don’t merit inclusion on the basis of highest domestic gross. But that doesn’t mean these films don’t tell compelling stories in their own right. So this time, we…

11th UPDATE, Monday, 3:36 PM: Jurassic World took the world’s stage for a global bow of $524.4M and 40% of that came from North American audiences. The Colin Treverrow-helmed family film accounted for 70% of the weekend’s gross among titles from the majors and lifted the box office up overall year-to-date from where…

Monday, FINAL UPDATE, 2:38 PM: All pictures (but Disney’s) were down from their Sunday studio estimates this weekend but the real news is this is the third soft box office weekend in a row. The box office is off 18.9% from 2014 when The Fault in Our Stars opened to $48M and Maleficent had $34.2M in its coffers. The…

4th UPDATE, 1:39 PM, PT: Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World, which is expected to make a large international footprint, will open in 66 markets, including China and France in only a couple of days, on Wednesday, June 10. As we wait, this weekend’s San Andreas opened in China to $51M after six days, marking the highest…

Focus Features/Gramercy’s Insidious: Chapter 3 frightened $1.55M out of moviegoers’ wallets into theaters’ cash drawers last night while 20th Century Fox’s Spy rang up $1.5M in Thursday night previews. Previews began at 7 PM for Insidious: Chapter 3 in 2,150 theaters, while Spy kicked off at 5 PM. While the horror…

This coming weekend is so busy at the box office that it’s literally starting tonight. Warner Bros’ Entourage, the big-screen version of the glitzy Hollywood HBO series, will be the first of three wide releases to open with 7 PM previews. Friday brings 20th Century Fox/The Chernin Group’s R-rated Melissa McCarthy…

Over two years ago Steve Buck, Rentrak’s SVP of theatrical business relations, was tasked with the assignment of correlating box office to films’ social media buzz. We often hear stats such as ‘so-so star has over a million followers,’ or their tweet generated 1,000 retweets. It was Buck’s job to bring some context to…

Bringing the second day of WonderCon to a chilling conclusion, Jason Blum’s horror movie factory Blumhouse rolled out gruesome clips from four of its upcoming films during the final panel of the day. The room wasn’t packed like it was during the Warner Bros.’ film panel that kicked the day off. But those in attendance…

Scariness ruled awhile this afternoon at WonderCon in Anaheim. Blumhouse Productions screened a new trailer for Insidious: Chapter 3, in which the psychic played by Lyn Shaye explains to a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) why it’s probably better if you don’t try to contact and talk to the dead. The trailer’s pretty…

The darkest chapter goes back to the beginning. So says the poster for Insidious: Chapter 3, which is a prequel to the two previous installments of the Focus Features/Blumhouse horror franchise. Why a Round 3? Insidious grossed $97 million worldwide on a $1.5 million budget in 2011, and Insidious: Chapter 2 was made…

Warner Bros has set aside some prime summer real estate for its creepshow sequel The Conjuring 2. The follow-up to the 2013 hit originally was set for Halloween 2015 but was moved to 2016 three weeks ago in the wake of its spinoff Annabelle slicing off $244 million worldwide since its early-October bow. Now the studio…

Focus Features has launched its Insidious: Chapter 3 marketing campaign by dropping a first teaser for Insidious 3, right in the midst of October’s horror season. The film marks the directorial debut of writer Leigh Whannell, who cut his teeth penning the first three Saw flicks and the first two Insidiouses for…