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Ava DuVernay’s collective ARRAY keeps on amplifying voices and artists to help push systemic change and representation with the release of W.J. Lofton’s Breonna Taylor-inspired visual poem Would You Kill Go Too? Lofton is the second artist commissioned for ARRAY’s Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP), a fund…

China has selected Peter Ho-Sun Chen’s volleyball drama Leap starring Gong Li as its international Oscar entry. The film charts the story of the Chinese women's national volleyball team and their ups and downs over multiple decades, including a world championship win in 1981 and a triumph at the 2016 Rio…

Thursday marked the end of the Chinese National Day holiday with the world's second largest box office market significantly tightening the gap between its turnstiles and those of North America. Takings for the period are estimated at RMB 3.95B ($589M). That does not include play of some of the releases that got a jump…

TUESDAY UPDATE, with actuals: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet again came in slightly higher in Warner Bros’ weekend actuals versus Sunday's estimates with $16.2M on 19,764 screens in 56 overseas markets. That's a -35% hold (-25% excluding China). The international box office through Sunday is $243.7M for $284.9M worldwide…

The first major blockbuster of the pandemic era, The Eight Hundred this week became the No. 1-grossing movie of 2020 worldwide, jumping ahead of Bad Boys For Life ($430.3 million global, per Sony). The Guan Hu-directed war epic has through Friday amassed $434M at the Chinese box office alone, and is also now the 10th…

The Weinstein Company is partnering with Lollipop Theater Network, an organization dedicated to bringing the magic of current movies to children with chronic or life-threatening illnesses, to kick off a multi-screening series of Leap! in hospitals across the Los Angeles area. The Éric Summer and Éric Warin-directed…

3RD UPDATE, 4:45 PM: As we predicted, TWC just pushed its horror film Polaroid off the August 25 date and now will release it a few months later on December 1. The film is about a teen who finds an old Polaroid camera and quickly discovers that everyone who’s picture is taken by it dies. The movie marks the feature…

It’s unusually late in the process, but The Weinstein Company got Kate McKinnon this week to join the voice cast for the animated film Leap! A trailer was already released and the film opens April 21, but the Saturday Night Live stalwart came in this week and provided the voices for three different characters, none of…

Two orphans with a dream give it their all in the latest trailer for The Weinstein Company's upcoming animated film Leap! Directed by Éric Summer and Éric Warin and written by Carol Noble, Eric Summer and Laurent Zeitoun, Leap! follows 11-year-old orphan Félicie (Elle Fanning), who dreams of becoming a dancer in…

The Weinstein Company will release the animated period picture Leap! on March 3 of next year, they said today. Directed by Eric Summer and Eric Warin, Leap! stars Elle Fanning and is set in Paris in 1884 and follows an orphaned girl who arrives in Paris. Only 11 years old, the girl has no money but does have a passion…