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Netflix said Monday that it has set Kong: Skull Island helmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts to direct a live-action Gundam, based on the iconic Japanese mecha franchise. The feature film hails from Legendary, which is reteaming with Vogt-Roberts from Skull Island and comes off the outsized box office success of its tentpole Godz…

Monday AM: Godzilla vs. Kong had a better than expected Sunday of $3.8M, off 38% from Saturday which puts the Legendary title’s second weekend at $13.88M, -56% for a running total of $70M. It’s conceivable that the monster fourthquel gets past $90M, and $100M wouldn’t be shocking at the domestic box office. What’s…

Here’s something nobody was expecting during the pandemic at the global box office: An event film which is bound to profit. Film finance sources have been telling us that as Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong hits $357.8M WW today, the pic is already set to bring cash back to Warner Bros. — an estimated $96.4M currently…

Josh Heald, who’s best known as one of the showrunners on the hit TV show Cobra Kai, is set to direct a feature film adaptation of The History Channel's hit series Ancient Aliens, originally developed for television by Prometheus Entertainment and executive produced by the late Kevin Burns. The film will be written…

After logging the best pandemic-era start for a Hollywood movie at the international box office last weekend, Warner Bros/Legendary's Godzilla Vs Kong has punched up $285.4M worldwide through Sunday. The overseas running total, which added $76.1M (a great -39% hold) this weekend, is $236.9M, giving GVK bragging rights…

Sunday AM FINAL: Whoever said moviegoing was bound to stay dead, or that streaming has won, needs to go back to business school. Because a big event movie plus a holiday weekend, along with LA & NYC reopened exhibition markets equaled big bucks. At the box office, Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong  decimated…

Updated with L.A. County cleared to move to 50% capacity at cinemas: Unlike Easter last year, we’re actually going to be able to go to the movies this weekend. With drive-ins solely operating in the U.S. and Canada as the main means of moviegoing, Universal last March released its DreamWorks Animation title Trolls Worl…

MONDAY UPDATE, writethru with actuals after Sunday 8:20AM post: This weekend saw Warner Bros/Legendary's Godzilla Vs Kong set a new benchmark for the biggest international box office debut by a Hollywood film during the pandemic era with $123.1M from 38 overseas markets. That’s slightly higher than the Sunday estimate…

This is apparently the heavyweight match fans have been waiting for, and Warner Bros and Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong comes at the right time for global moviegoers beaten down by a worldwide pandemic that has forced studios to hold back their big blockbusters for hopeful eventual theatrical play. Yes, this fourth…

Warner Bros/Legendary's Godzilla Vs Kong will slug it out in 38 offshore markets this weekend beginning Wednesday in such hubs as Mexico, Taiwan, Indonesdia and India; followed by Russia, Korea and Australia among others on Thursday and China notably on Friday. The Adam Wingard-directed pic is releasing abroad ahead…

A year after Legendary brought in Chris Albrecht to launch Legendary Global, the former Starz CEO is taking over the company’s entire TV operation. Legendary is consolidating its international (Legendary Global) and domestic TV businesses under Albrecht, who has been named Head of Legendary Television. Nick Pepper…

Warner Bros, in the wake of making good with Legendary on the simultaneous release of Godzilla vs. Kong in theaters and on HBO Max, will be releasing the movie on March 26 instead of May 21. It was reported last Friday that Warner Bros and financier Legendary, which owns a majority of the movie, avoided a legal…