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The third installment in Lionsgate/Summit’s Keanu Reeves shoot-em-up franchise, John Wick: Chapter 3 is locked and loaded to open on May 17, 2019. John Wick: Chapter Two, which opened in early February, was a huge surprise at the winter box office, debuting to $30M and finaling at $92M stateside, $171.5M…

UPDATED 4:50 PM with comments from execs during conference call with analysts: Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer told Wall Street analysts during today’s earnings conference call that developing programming for Starz was the company’s biggest priority for the rest of 2017 and beyond. The company earlier had posted solid…

6th UPDATE, Monday AM: While most of the town likely has a hangover from last night’s Oscar snafu, Universal/Blumhouse’s Get Out is even higher in early Monday reporting. The Jordan Peele-directed horror movie now seeing a $33.4 million debut according to rival estimates. Note that rivals and Universal have generally…

3rd UPDATE, 7AM: In a five-day fight between Christian Grey and Lego Batman, the S&M beefcake wins: Universal is reporting $10.93M this morning for Fifty Shades Darker‘s Valentine’s Day booty which sends the sequel’s running cume to $61.4M. Meanwhile, Warner Bros.’ The Lego Batman Movie was No. 2 yesterday with $5M…

6TH WRITETHRU, Monday 6:30 PM: Even though Warner Bros.’ The Lego Batman Movie’s opening is still fine at $53M, it’s down from its Sunday projection by $2.6M, which some attribute to the fact that the movie isn’t resonating as broadly as The Lego Movie did, rather largely appealing to the under-12 set. Some industry…

WRITETHRU, 11:20 AM Monday: Universal Pictures’ Fifty Shades Darker opened to less than the estimated $100 million-plus take with a $97.7M international debut, the fourth-biggest opening ever for an R-rated film behind its predecessor Fifty Shade Of Grey, Deadpool and The Matrix Revolutions. And it’s headed into…

Checking outside the window in some parts of the world, it looks a lot like winter with the Northeast about to get dumped on again later this week. But by box office standards, it might as well be summer with big grosses in the forecast for this weekend’s crop of Pre-Valentine’s Day entries: Warner Bros.’ The Lego Batm…

The next big box office weekend is expected to be the pre-Valentine’s Day period of February 10-12, and Christian Grey will not have the upper hand. Universal’s Fifty Shades Darker, the highly anticipated sequel to 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the feature adaptation of E L James’ S&M romance novel, is currently…

“Somebody please get this man a gun.” From the new trailer Lionsgate released for the sequel to 2014’s uber-violent film John Wick: Chapter 2. In it, we see the return of star Keanu Reeves as legendary hitman John Wick, who is yet again forced out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a…

After what feels like far too long, this morning we finally got our first look at John Wick: Chapter 2. The sequel to the gloriously ultraviolent 2014 sleeper hit finds unflappable killing machine and ex-hitman Wick (Keanu Reeves), last seen avenging the cruel murder of his dog, forced out of retirement yet again when…

New York Comic-Con is around the corner, and Lionsgate has released first-look posters from its features Power Rangers and John Wick: Chapter 2. Both films will be featured during a Saturday panel at the confab, which runs October 6-9 in Manhattan. Check out the posters below. Lionsgate will offer footage of Power Rang…