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Sony has secured a China release for Greta Gerwig's Oscar-winning Little Women, with the film set to bow in the Middle Kingdom on August 25. The movie, a re-telling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel starring Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson and Eliza Scanlen as the March sisters, alongside Timothée…

The big international box office news this week isn’t actually from the weekend — which was again led by Korea and saw continued ups and downs versus last session as moviegoers await new product. Instead, after 100 days of closure, French cinemas re-opened beginning Monday this week, and with at least 40 films…

After making a strong debut in Japan last weekend, Sony's Little Women this session crossed the $100M mark at the international box office. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic tale now has an offshore cume of $101M and a global haul of $209M to date. The current frame was worth $475K from 12 overseas…

TUESDAY UPDATE after 9:22AM Sunday report, writethru with overall market details: Sony’s Oscar winner, Little Women, originally began offshore rollout back in late December 2019, but continued to show off its grit at the international box office this weekend. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic opened in Ja…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Jacqueline Durran took home the Oscar for Costume Design for her work in Little Women, beating out costume designers for The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. This comes after recently picking up the BAFTA award for Best Costume Design. This win marks Durran’s second Oscar after she won…

We knew this was going to happen. By Oscar Sunday, if not before, Greta Gerwig’s feature revival of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women will cross $100 million at the domestic box office, a huge 33% surge in its domestic tally since notching six Oscar nominations on January 13 including Best Picture. While Gerwig already…

The time-shifting, “cubist” approach Greta Gerwig took in adapting Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel Little Women, the writer-director said, came to her early in the process. “I always knew I wanted to start when they were adults and have it be a conversation between who they were as girls and who they are as women,&#8221…

In Saturday Night Live’s first original after the Oscar nominations were announced, the show’s Melissa Villaseñor provided commentary during “Weekend Update” in the form of original songs she had written for all top contenders. Turns out most of the nominated movies — from Joker, The Irishman, Once Upon a Time In Holly…

Greta Gerwig took home top honors Saturday night at the 32nd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Little Women, her adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel. “Little Women is the book of my life — reading and re-reading this book made my the woman I am today,” Gerwig said. “This is extraordinary. I am very…

Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the…

UPDATE, writethru: Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Sony's Bad Boys For Life dominated domestic, overseas and global turnstiles in its debut, and will cross $100M worldwide when including the domestic four-day weekend. At the international box office, the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop flick set a new…