4TH/5TH UPDATE, Sunday AM/Monday: With actuals. During one of the hardest weekends of the year to open a movie, Universal did so with Legendary’s holiday horror comedy Krampus earning $16.3M in second place, which is better than the $10M-$13M that the town and Uni were expecting. Tack on $3.3M and you have a global…

Don’t expect any favors from the weekend box office. The period following the Thanksgiving day Wednesday-Sunday stretch is notoriously one of the lowest-grossing periods of the year as moviegoers get into the holiday swing with more shopping, parties and activities. Last year at this time, total ticket sales per…

Legendary Pictures descended on Hall H for Day 3 of Comic-Con, bringing with it three very different upcoming films, but all of them equally exciting if their reception was any indication. Fans went crazy as director Duncan Jones offered an extensive peak into the highly anticipated movie Warcraft. This was Jones…

Universal Pictures has set a 2015 date for horror comedy Krampus, the Christmas-set flick to be directed by Trick ‘R Treat‘s Michael Dougherty. The yuletide frightener co-written by Dougherty, Todd Casey and Zach Shields is based on the ancient legend of a pagan demon who punishes wicked children – a really bad…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary has closed a deal for Michael Dougherty to co-write and direct Krampus, a twisted horror comedy set around the Christmas holiday that’s co-written by Todd Casey and Zach Shields. Based on an ancient legend about a pagan demon who punishes the wicked, Krampus is similar in style to Dougherty’s cult…