6TH Write-thru, Monday Final: Warner Bros. is calling the weekend for Ben Affleck drama thriller The Accountant at $24.7M. Despite seeing a 5% hike in Saturday’s business with $9.5M, Sunday ticket sales were -36% as a plethora of sporting events distracted the pic’s core guy audience, i.e. there were four NFL games…
It’s bound to be another downer weekend at the box office.
Following Labor Day, this fall’s ticket sales currently total $682.8M through the second weekend in October, which is -10% versus the same frame last year and -8% when compared to that time frame in 2014. According to ComScore, since 2012 the annual fall B.O…
About his role in the infamously terrible Jaws 4: The Revenge, Michael Caine once said “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In unrelated news, a new trailer for Max Steel launched earlier today, co-starring the great Andy Ga…
Andy Garcia has been cast in Max Steel, Dolphin Films’ live-action film based on the Mattel toy line. The story centers on teenager Max McGrath (Ben Winchell) and his alien companion Steel, who combine special turbo-energy powers to become the superhero Max Steel. Garcia will play Dr. Miles Edwards, a brilliant and…
Vera Farmiga has signed on to star in relationship comedy Prima. Even Greenberg wrote the script and is directing the film that was previously known as Dance Of The Mirlitons. The film is prepping for a March start and centers around a 12-year-old girl who shocks everyone when she is accepted into a prestigious school…
Gearing up for the European Film Market in Berlin next month, the feature division of Bill O’Dowd’s family-based producer Dolphin Entertainment is launching a new sales operation to go by the name of Dolphin Films International. The outfit will operate under a multi-year partnership with IM Global which will provide…