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MGM/United Artists Releasing/Eon’s Monday box office for No Time to Die came in much higher than the $5M-$6M expected with $6.94M thanks to the Indigenous Peoples' Day holiday in the Northeast. That figure bests previous Daniel Craig Bond first Mondays, i.e. Spectre ($5.3M) back in 2015, 2008's Quantum of Solace…

Monday AM: No Time to Die will wind up at $60M+ over four days, thanks to the Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday in the Northeast. A $5M-$6M Monday is in store for the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed MGM/UAR/Eon feature which is in the space of Spectre‘s Monday ($5.3M) back in 2015, and higher than 2008’s Quantum of…

Cyrano star Haley Bennett joined production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer on stage at Deadline’s Contenders Film: London event to discuss the film. In discussing director Joe Wright, Bennett said, “this is the kind of material that Joe really excels at. I've always been interested in Joe's…

Cary Joji Fukunaga, director of No Time To Die, is evidently pleased that the latest James Bond film – the last featuring Daniel Craig as 007 – was released theatrically. The helmer told Deadline's Contender London that it was a "major, major relief that it didn't end up on a streaming platform and that audiences are…

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson joined me virtually as part of the MGM/United Artists Releasing presentation at the Deadline Contenders Film: London event taking place today in front of an audience of awards voters in England and serving as a launch to this Oscar season. If there was ever a performance deserving of…

One thing is clear after we’ve endured a 19-month pandemic: The world now, more than ever, needs James Bond. And not just movie theaters, and concession industries, but an assortment of brands from Madison Avenue which have seen sales curtailed during lockdown, in particular the auto industry which continues to see…

To quote Daniel Craig in the latest No Time to Die Heineken commercial, the domestic box office opening and further offshore rollout of the 25th 007 title is poised to be “Well worth the wait.” All in, the upcoming global weekend of No Time to Die is expected to be at $150 million. Broken down, that’s another $90…

MGM on Wednesday released the trailer for Cyrano, Joe Wright’s musical adaptation of the classic tale that stars Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett and Kelvin Harrison Jr. The pic, which world premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, is gearing up for its December 31 release in select theaters via United Artists…

SATURDAY UPDATE, writethru: James Bond is back, and in a big way. Exceeding conservative pre-weekend projections and doing bang-up business across the first few days of release, MGM/Eon/Universal's No Time To Die is now poised for an estimated $112.9M opening weekend at the international box office. That means that…

UPDATED with more details: It is finally time for No Time to Die as the 25th James Bond title has its world premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday evening. The glitzy, star-studded event welcomed 007 himself, Daniel Craig, for his swansong as the legendary secret agent, along with several fellow cast…

It has been a long time coming, but one of the most hotly awaited films of the pandemic era is finally hitting cinemas this week after several Covid-induced date changes. MGM/Eon/Universal's No Time to Die begins rollout at the international box office starting Wednesday in Korea and adds such majors as the UK…

MGM and United Artists Releasing have released the trailer for Licorice Pizza, the first film from Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s since 2017’s Phantom Thread. The pic, which returns the filmmaker to his San Fernando Valley canvas, is set to hit select theaters November 26. Set in 1973 in the…