UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Sony's Men In Black: International performed in line with pre-weekend industry projections, landing $73.7M at the international box office. Added to domestic's fizzle, the global launch crossed the century mark with $102.2M. Offshore tracking is on par with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 19%…
4th Update Sunday AM writethru, after Friday midday and Saturday AM updates If you’re a rival major studio in the Disney-Fox era and you want to continue to play around with franchises, you have to make a movie that’s so outstanding, there’s no question in any person’s mind that they should go to the cinema. The…
With sequelitis in full swing at the domestic box office before Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4 changes that course, Sony is plotting for its responsibly-budgeted reboot of Men in Black: International to carry the load exactly there — overseas. Currently, industry estimates are now at $30M in U.S. Canada at 4,200 theaters…
Men in Black: International, Sony’s reboot of Men in Black with Thor: Ragnarok thespians Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, arrived on tracking this morning with a $40 million start. The pic opens June 14.
While lower than the $50M-plus three-day total of the previous Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones movies, Men in Black: I…
EXCLUSIVE: The high-end luxury goods and bling of the Men in Black agents including their cars, watches, sunglasses and suits, are part of the prolific estimated $75M promotional push for Sony’s June 14 reboot of the hit franchise Men in Black: International.Â
That figure is close to the media value reaped by…
Sony’s Men in Black: International will hit theaters in China on June 14, opening day and date with the pic’s North American bow.
Unadjusted for inflation, MIB 3 was released in China 2012, making $77.2M, the pic’s largest territory outside U.S./Canada ($179M).
Men in Black: International has the added camaraderie of T…
The world's not going to save itself… see for yourself in the latest trailer for Men In Black: International, Sony's long-in-the-works reboot.
Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are kicking ass in London and all over the world in their black suits, replacing Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
Sony has set a June 14, 2019…
Sony has released the first trailer for Men In Black: International, the long-in-the-works reboot of the franchise now starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson, who port over from another universe (Marvel’s) to don the black suits in the lead roles made famous by Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
Sony has already set…
It’s been more than 20 years since veteran fed Tommy Lee Jones recruited outsider Will Smith to join his secret governmental agency that keeps an eye on aliens living as humans in New York City. Fast-forward to 2018, and the Men in Black franchise is spinning off with Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson leading the way…
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off Mission: Impossible Fallout, Rebecca Ferguson is being set for a plum role in theMen in Black spinoff. She has separately closed her deal to play the scary Rose the Hat in Doctor Sleep, based on the Stephen King novel that continues the story line King started in The Shining.
Ferguson, who…
Liam Neeson has joined the cast of Sony Pictures’ spinoff of Men In Black, a pic to be directed by F. Gary Gray that seeks relaunch the franchise by expanding on what came before. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are already aboard the new pic, which is being written by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway and already has…
Thor: Ragnarok and Westworld actress Tessa Thompson has signed up for Sony Pictures' Men in Black spinoff, which is said to be more of an ensemble piece than the previous films that starred Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. F. Gary Gray is directing the pic from a screenplay by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway.
Neither…
