Bill Hader and James McAvoy are in early talks to join Jessica Chastain on New Line’s It sequel which tells the story of the Losers Club as adults. McAvoy is in talks to play Bill, who was played by Jaeden Lieberher in the film last fall, and Hader will portray Richie, who was played by Finn Wolfhard. Chastain will…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Jackson Robert Scott, who played Georgie Denbrough in New Line’s wildly successful Stephen King pic It, has joined Taylor Schilling atop Orion Pictures’ new horror movie from Nicholas McCarthy, previously known as Descendant. The now-untitled pic has McCarthy helming an original script by Midnight Meat Train…

Jessica Chastain is indeed in early negotiations to join the sequel to It, the New Line horror pic based on Stephen King’s book that last fall dominated the marketplace and grossed an outsized $700 million at the global box office, becoming the highest-grossing horror film of all time. Chastain’s involvement has been…

After scoring a record early fall opening record of $123.4M with last year’s It in the post-Labor Day weekend, Warner Bros. is moving New Line’s Conjuring spinoff The Nun from July 13 to Sept. 7. Despite The Nun having one foot in July 13, New Line had quietly reserved the post-Labor Day frame for an untitled New Line…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line/Warner Bros’ horror smash It has crossed $700M globally. The Stephen King adaptation that just wouldn’t quit after starting a September rollout domestically and overseas, has ballooned to $700.2M worldwide — and that is extra notable given the film was not released in China. Japan, where It has…

New Line Production EVP Walter Hamada, one of the key executives in charge of the label’s horror successes It and The Conjuring franchise, will now oversee DC films at the studio as Warner Bros Group president Toby Emmerich evolves the unit at Warner Bros. Hamada is being named President, DC-Based Film Production, Warn…

During a sleepy December weekend for the industry at the box office, Warner Bros. became the first major studio to cross $2 billion this year. It will ultimately end up as their second-best year ever, after 2009’s $2.13 billion. The Burbank, CA studio also set an industry record for exceeding $1 billion at the…

Paramount will release Are You Afraid of the Dark? based on the Canadian/Nickelodeon 1990s aired anthology series on Oct. 11, 2019. It scribe Gary Dauberman is writing and will produce with Matt Kaplan. Paramount is producing in conjunction with Nickelodeon Movies. The series centered around the Midnight Society, a…

Warner Bros Pictures has crossed the $5 billion mark at the global box office for the second time in studio history, led by five of its films released during 2017 eclipsing $500 million worldwide, a studio record. Last week, Walt Disney Studios crossed the $5B mark in worldwide receipts for a third year in a row, the…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Blade Runner 2049, the Denis Villeneuve-helmed sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic took flight in 63 overseas markets this weekend, hunting down $50.2M at the international box office. Sony co-financed the pic with Alcon and is releasing outside North America where the weekend is coming in low…

UPDATED, 6:17 PM: As we pointed out, oh … 13 days ago, September was bound to cross the $700M mark. ComScore made it official tonight that the 30-day month grossed an all-time domestic record of $708.9M, up 19% from last year’s $594.5M and 14.7% higher than the previous September record of $617.8M two years ago. Per…