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Could Oscar finally be ready to place his Best Picture prestige on some genuine movie blockbusters for a welcome change? Sounds far-fetched but read on, but first a little explanation for this pipe dream of mine. With the close of June today we are now at the halfway mark in the eligibility period for the 90th Academy…

UPDATED, all films added, 11:55 AM: Universal's The Fate Of The Furious has shot off to a record $433.2M debut at the international box office. Couple that with domestic's $98.7M launch and the worldwide debut is $532M, the biggest global opening for a film, ever. So move over Indominous Rex and Kylo Ren, F8 in 63…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: The international box office waltz was led again this frame by Disney's Beauty And The Beast with a $120.6M sophomore session – up $1.4M from Sunday's estimate and down less than 35% from opening last weekend. The global cume is $693.5M through Sunday, making the Bill Condon-directed…

ComScore is reporting this morning that the March box office is hitting an all-time record of $1 billion thanks to momentum of such tentpoles as Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, 20th Century Fox’s Logan, Legendary/Warner Bros.’ Kong: Skull Island and Lionsgate’s Saban’s Power Rangers.  This month easily blows away last…

MONDAY UPDATE with Beauty and the Beast actuals: She’s even more beautiful today, that Belle. Disney is reporting that its behemoth Beauty and the Beast came in at an international box office cume of $182.3M for the weekend. That’s $2.3M over the Sunday estimate. Combined with domestic‘s $174.8M debut frame, the…

Hollywood’s filled with talented storytellers, including executives when they craft creative arguments to portray movie-making as a vibrant business with ample growth opportunities. So it’s no wonder that many of them grind their teeth this time each year when Cowen and Co. Managing Director and Senior Research…

EXCLUSIVE: James Mangold, coming off the hit Logan, is returning to 2oth Century Fox. He’s in talks to develop and direct The Force, the upcoming epic NYPD corrupt cop novel by The Cartel author Don Winslow. The novel was acquired for seven-figures by Fox last fall, before it even had a title. The Force will be…

Final Monday Writethru:  There it is. There’s that great word of mouth working in Kong: Skull Island‘s favor.   Final Monday estimates remained in sync with what we saw Sunday: Warner Bros./Legendary’s monster movie opened to $61M, a 35% improvement on the pic’s projections four weeks ago, which were in the mid-$40M…

UPDATE, MONDAY, with Kong & Logan actuals: Warner Bros/Legendary's Kong: Skull Island stomped into offshore play this weekend, pounding out an $85.1M opening at the international box office. That's $3.5M better than Sunday's $81.6M forecast. The screen count on the giant ape was also bigger with 20,900 versus 20,400…

5th Update Sunday: Kong: Skull Island beat its tracking and earlier weekend projections with a $61M opening. Click here for our continued weekend analysis. 4th Writethru Saturday after Friday 11:23 PM update: With updated Sunday figures. Here’s one piece of good news about Warner Bros./Legendary’s Kong: Skull Island…

After first being announced three Comic-Cons ago, Warner Bros/Legendary Kong: Skull Island finally will take its first steps on the global stage in 65 offshore markets including the U.S./Canada with a daunting production cost before P&A of $185 million. Kong arrives in a lucrative spring break marketplace that will…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Mann’s Ferrari is revving again, with Hugh Jackman now in talks to play Enzo Ferrari, and Noomi Rapace to play his estranged wife Linda. Their relationship, as fiery and combustible as the race cars that Ferrari designed, plays a big part in the script Mann wrote. They have loosely been discussing…