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Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. This year, we decided to look at the films on the opposite end of the spectrum. The big budget misfires that bled red ink and reminded everyone from the artists to the executives and studio executives that big…

Without a major four-quad tentpole release in place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend — the first in some time — a trio of wide releases and a trio of wide expansions are crowding the box office marketplace. The glut is making a No. 1 winner unclear, especially following the surprise win last weekend for…

Paramount has released a new trailer for the long-delayed live-action/CGI hybrid film Monster Trucks, helmed by Ice Age director Chris Wedge. The pic stars Lucas Till as Tripp, an average high school senior looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, and who puts together a truck from…

It’s bad enough when a studio has to take a write down on a film that doesn’t perform as well as expected. But Viacom this morning took a $115 million charge on a film that isn’t due out until January: Monster Trucks. The live-action/computer-animated film with a $125 million price tag from Paramount Animation, had…

E.T. meets Christine? No. Lilo’s Stitch meets The Car? Nope. Flipper meets Maximum Overdrive? 0-for-3. Welcome to the first trailer for Monster Trucks, the long-delayed CG/live-action pic that hits theaters in January — its fourth release date. As he gears up to play MacGyver in the fall and is onscreen as Havok in X-M…

Paramount Animation unveiled release dates for several of the studio's films including a new release date for its long-in-the-works Monster Trucks, The Little Prince and SpongeBob SquarePants 3. The dates carry studio’s slate through March 2019. Monster Trucks, the live-action/CG hybrid that is hauling a $125M price…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Levy has returned to Gersh, her former agency before leaving for WME in August 2012. The onetime co-star of ABC’s comedy Suburgatory has since entered the film game with roles in Fun Size and Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead remake. Next up for her is Paramount’s Monster Trucks, the long-in-the-works pic that…

Monster Trucks, the live-action/computer-animated film with a $125M price tag from Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Movies production, has been pushed out of 2015 — the second time the film has been postponed. That’s a heavy amount of interest to shoulder, but it will give them more time to work on marketing…

Paramount has rethought its plan to open the next Mission: Impossible sequel this coming Christmas, instead moving it up to the heart of summer. Skydance’s Tom Cruise-Jeremy Renner actioner Mission: Impossible 5 from Christopher McQuarrie, who directed Cruise in 2012’s Jack Reacher, now will open July 31. It will face…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Lowe is the latest cast member to join Paramount Animation’s hybrid pic Monster Trucks, which already has set Danny Glover, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Lucas Till, Holt McCallany, Thomas Lennon, and Barry Pepper. Plot details are being kept under wraps on the May 29, 2015, release, which will mark Lowe’s…

Chrissie Fit has booked a role in Universal’s sequel Pitch Perfect 2, playing a new member of the Barden Bellas. Many of the original cast members are returning, but plot details are being kept under wraps for director Elizabeth Banks’ film, which is shooting in Baton Rouge, LA. Fit’s credits include Disney Channel’s T…

Paramount’s 2015 live-action animation hybrid pic Monster Trucks has cast Emmy-winner Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, True Grit) in a role that the studio’s keeping under wraps. Pepper, who next appears in Focus Features’ Kill The Messenger with Jeremy Renner and the romantic drama The Devil’s Harvest, had a busy…