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Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. This year, we decided to look at the films on the opposite end of the spectrum. The big budget misfires that bled red ink and reminded everyone from the artists to the executives and studio executives that big…

UPDATED, Tuesday 12:19 PM: Final numbers are in for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and yesterday it took in another $55.5M to bring its global gross to $326M (that includes the $247.8M thru the U.S. Memorial Day holiday). The $326M earned by the fifth installment of the Jerry Bruckheimer…

TUESDAY UPDATE, writethru with actuals: Offshore rollout began this weekend on Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, luring $40.1M worth of moviegoers to see the Xenomorphs in action in 34 markets. That's about $2M down from the Sunday estimates, but is not attributable to any one market and is squarely within projection…

MONDAY UPDATE, 7:11 AM: Yesterday was a day for moms at the movies, with 20th Century Fox’s R-rated comedy Snatched grossing $8.05 million repping an amazing 25% Sunday box office boost over Saturday for a final opening take of $19.5M in second place. And Snatched wasn’t the only movie getting a hug from mom…

With Sunday AM updates: Really, how does a major studio spend $175M on a potential new franchise, and completely go bust at the box office? After arguably eight years of starts and stops through various iterations, Warner Bros. has finally opened King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the feature adaptation of a classic IP…

For the ninth time out of the last 11 years, a Marvel superhero movie will feasibly dominate the second weekend of the summer box office: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is currently expected to earn $66M-$73M in first place, repping a 50%-55% decline during its sophomore session. Should GOTG2 gross near the top of…

It has been 50 years since Warner Bros released its adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. Now the studio is back on the King Arthur bandwagon with a wildly different take on the famous mythical world of the Knights of the Round Table. This new version actually is more like British Punks of the Round Table…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its May 12 opening day, Warner Bros./Village Roadshow pic King Arthur: Legend of the Sword created huge excitement at its preview screenings at 200 AMC Theatres yesterday pulling in more than 30K attendees. The free screening day was branded ‘King for a Day’. Originally, AMC was to screen the movie…

Audiences are going nuts for Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword.  It was announced this week that there will be free previews of the movie April 27 at select theaters at 7 PM local time, a promotion called “King for a Day.” AMC Theatres has maxed out on RSVPs from Danbury, CT, to Burbank…

EXCLUSIVE: Even though King Arthur doesn't pull his sword from the stone for another month, Warner Bros. has signed a two-year production deal with Safehouse Pictures and its principals Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell. The duo hatched the pitch and got the whole thing started on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the Guy…

We get a once and final look at the once and future king in the latest trailer for Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. With Charlie Hunnam in the title role and Jude Law as his treacherous uncle Vortigern, the film hits theaters May 12. This trailer – the final in a series that kicked off at Comic-Con last…

Charlie Hunnam takes on the iconic role of the “man who pulled sword from stone, the born king" in Guy Ritchie's upcoming King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. A new trailer for the epic fantasy, adventure film has been unveiled by Warner Bros., and features more action-packed scenes and Hunnam getting rock star…