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Here's a sobering thought (as if we needed one): Fox's action-comedy sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle, opening Friday, could do as well as its 2015 predecessor and this still would be the worst year for live-action screen comedy since, possibly, ever. As of this week, only one live-action comedy has cracked the…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed actress Sofia Boutella. She recently starred as the metallic-legged beauty Gazelle in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service for Fox, and she landed the female lead in Star Trek 3, which Justin Lin is directing. Boutella had been repped by Paradigm, which did a fine job getting her to…

20th Century Fox’s Kingsman: The Secret Service always had enough bullets at the box office to survive against S&M romance behemoth Fifty Shades Of Grey. The Matthew Vaughn-helmed action film, based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ comic book The Secret Service was, for the most part, smartly placed on the domestic…

As Furious 7 continues its rally through theaters around the world, FX Networks has garaged TV rights to Universal septa-sequel for FX, FXX and FM. The company said today it also has secured four other current and recent titles, all distributed by its corporate sibling Fox: The Longest Ride, Taken 3 and Kingsman: The S…

BREAKING: After turning Kingsman: The Secret Service into a Fox hit, director Matthew Vaughn is circling the studio's Flash Gordon project. Fox set that up last year, an adaptation of the pulp comic-strip hero that originally was scripted by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, who worked on Star Trek 3. John Davis is…

EXCLUSIVE: After a sharp turn as the sexy blade-legged assassin in the Matthew Vaughn-directed hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, Sofia Boutella has been set for a lead role in Star Trek 3, which Justin Lin is directing from a script by cast member Simon Pegg and Doug Jung (creator of the TNT series Dark Blue). Prying…

2ND UPDATE, Monday, 5:21 PM: Worldwide totals for Furious 7 have been updated, given that it turned in a better gross domestically. It could roll in over $400M tomorrow worldwide. Also, all pictures have been updated with final numbers with three exceptions. We are still waiting on grosses for Warner Bros.’ Focus and G…

UPDATE, 8:15 PM Monday: DreamWorks Animation’s Home and Disney’s Cinderella both pulled in better than projected grosses from their overseas markets this past weekend, with Home tipping its worldwide take just past $100M. Despite better-than-expected numbers on its domestic frame, Wall Street continues to be wary of en…

UPDATE Monday, 5:51 PM: Actuals are in and Lionsgate’s second in the franchise Insurgent took a higher than expected $1.3M overall, bringing it tally to $48.3M (up from the estimated $47M). So worldwide, it just tips the $100M mark, according to Lionsgate. The final numbers also revealed that Disney’s Cinderella…

UPDATE, MONDAY, 8PM: Updates in the overseas B.O. figures below have been made for Warner Bros., Fox International, Disney, the Weinstein Co. and Universal.  The biggest change among all of them is that Warner Bros.’ Will Smith crime romance Focus bested its Sunday estimate of $12.2M abroad with $13.95M — welcome news…

UPDATE, THURSDAY AM PT: The official New Year numbers are in from Chinese watchdog SAPPRFT with total box office for the February 19-24 period in the Middle Kingdom registering a record 1.73B yuan ($276.4M). The tally for last year’s holiday was 1.39B yuan. According to China Daily, SAPPRFT also said the first day of…

5TH UPDATE, TUESDAY 3:56 AM PT: More actuals are now in with figures updated below on Big Hero 6, American Sniper, Jupiter Ascending, Traumfrauen, Boyhood and Shaun The Sheep (the latter in the market snapshots). 4TH UPDATE, MONDAY 11:40 AM PT: Updates to Universal’s Fifty Shades Of Grey, Unbroken and Seventh Son have…