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EXCLUSIVE: As its most recent release London Has Fallen just crossed $200M at the worldwide box office, Millennium Films has acquired the time-travel thriller Victim 321 that will be directed by Diego Velasco, helmer of the Venezuelan thriller The Zero Hour. Scripted by The Following writer Michael McGrale, Victim 321…

6TH WRITETHRU, Monday PM: We knew by Friday night that Zootopia was headed to a record opening for a Disney non-Pixar toon with $70M, but when all was done and finished, the film landed at $75.1M. Thanks to Zootopia, 2016 clicked past the $2B mark at the domestic B.O, pacing 9.5% ahead of the same frame in 2015. The…

UPDATE, Monday, 3:36 PM writethru with updates: Final grosses are coming in now with six more films added this post-Oscar weekend and just received market-by-market breakdowns for London Has Fallen and grosses for The Brothers Grimsby. Meanwhile, in this post-Best Picture Oscar-winning weekend for Spotlight, the film…

When you see what the U.S. president in London Has Fallen goes through, you have to wonder why Donald Trump wants this gig in the first place. A pointless sequel to 2013’s surprise hit Olympus Has Fallen — in which the commander in chief and the White House were under siege by terrorists — now sees the same scenario…

After last weekend’s ho-hum frame, Walt Disney Animation is looking to invigorate the box office with its original feature Zootopia, which is looking at a $60M-$70M opening. Non-Disney box office analysts believe the toon will open in the upper range, and if it surpasses $67.4M for the three days, Zootopia will beat Fr…

The British PM has checked out under mysterious circumstances, and the world’s most important leaders are in London for his funeral. Then there’s an explosion or 30, and a news reader says, “An attack has decimated the British capital.” Now five countries immediately must look to succession plans, and “the American…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is moving its action disaster pic London Has Fallen from the post MLK frame of January 22, 2016 to March 4, 2016. The first film, Olympus Has Fallen, went out in March 2013 becoming a surprise spring hit for its distributor Film District with a $30.4M opening weekend and a domestic cume of…

It was certain to happen. Someone blinked, and it was Gramercy Pictures & Focus Features. A few days after 20th Century Fox switched around dates and moved up its Matt Damon-Jessica Chastain sci-fi film The Martian to the very crowded weekend of October 2, Gramercy and Focus decided to move its action thriller London H…

Belgian actor Mehdi Dehbi has joined Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett in action sequel London Has Fallen. The Most Wanted Man and Tyrant star will play Sultan Mansoor, the youngest of three brothers whose life has been forever altered by a drone strike. Filming is underway on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Gerard Butler won’t be alone for London Has Fallen, the Millennium Films sequel to the action hit Olympus Has Fallen. Babak Najafi, best known for helming Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (better known as the sequel to Snabba Cash) is now in discussions to helm the action film that is being…

Focus Features has acquired U.S. rights to London Has Fallen, the sequel to last year’s White House action hit Olympus Has Fallen. Focus plans a nationwide release on October 2, 2015, pitting the film against Fox’s Frankenstein. Olympus star Gerard Butler returns for the sequel penned by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin…