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EXCLUSIVE: In a multi-million dollar deal, Lionsgate UK has boarded Guy Ritchie’s untitled Jason Statham action-thriller which was launched by Miramax and CAA Media Finance at the American Film Market. The project, which re-teams Ritchie and Statham for the first time since Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatc…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is likely to be one of the biggest deals at this year's AFM, I hear that MGM has taken domestic and select international rights on Cash Truck, the Miramax action thriller from Guy Ritchie that will star Jason Statham. The film will be released via MGM's joint venture UA Releasing domestically. MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: Mindhunter star Holt McCallany has been cast as a lead opposite Jason Statham in Cash Truck. The revenge-based action thriller from Miramax reteams Statham and Guy Ritchie, who is writing and directing based on the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. It starts shooting next month in London before moving to Los…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Statham, who broke out playing the fast-talking protagonists in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, is reuniting with the filmmaker again. The new as-yet-untitled project is a revenge-based action thriller from Miramax, which has acquired remake rights to the original 2004…

Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has shot past the $700M mark worldwide, rocking a $700.53M gross through Thursday. The split on the Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham action spinoff currently sits at $160.53M domestic and $540M at the international box office. A $725M-$750M finish is expected globally. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw zoomed into Korea on Wednesday, scoring the biggest opening day for the franchise, and through Thursday surpassed 1M admissions. Korea is the last market to release before China welcomes the spinoff next Friday, August 23. Through Thursday, the international…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Landing in line with Saturday's projections, Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw got off the starting block with an estimated $120M at the international box office. When including domestic, the global cume through Sunday is $180.8M. Across 63 offshore opening markets, the Dwayne…

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…

Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has secured an August 23 release date in China. Fast & Furious is a huge property in the market where Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham also both excel individually. The last F&F movie, The Fate Of The Furious, did about $393M in the Middle Kingdom in 2017 and remains…

It’s a wrap on Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Dwayne Johnson shared the news Friday on Instagram, saying production just ended on the “most challenging film” he’s ever done. “HOBBS & SHAW is officially wrapped,” Johnson wrote. “Easily the most challenging film I've ever produced and starred in, however based…

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…

Eiza Gonzalez has been set to co-star with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in the David Leitch-directed Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs and Shaw. Chris Morgan wrote the script and the film is produced by Johnson with his Seven Bucks Productions partners, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia, along with Statham, and Morgan…