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TUESDAY UPDATE, writethru: After setting a new opening day record for a local title in India on Friday, S.S. Rajamouli's RRR (Rise! Roar! Revolt!) continued a strong run in the home market throughout the weekend and picked up an estimated $60M+ globally. Of that, $16M is from outside of India (including $9.5M in North…

A trio of studio movies has received China release date confirmations for next month, including new films Ambulance and The Bad Guys, as well as last summer's Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions. Universal's Michael Bay-directed Ambulance, which began early offshore rollout last weekend and bows domestically on…

Roland Emmerich's big-budget sci-fi disaster pic Moonfall has been set for a March 25 release in China (check out the new poster below). The movie, which released via Lionsgate domestically on February 4, is heavily backed by China's Huayi, so this is an important piece of its recoupment prospects. The China date…

UPDATE, writethru with more detail after 11:28AM PT Sunday post: While Spider-Man: No Way Home continued to lead the international box office for studio films this weekend, weaving its way to a worldwide cume of $1.77B through Sunday, the biggest overseas action was out of (and limited to) China. The Lunar New Year ki…

Sunday Update: In a fight between a 22-year old reality brand and an over-the-hill disaster genre at the box office, Paramount’s Jackass Forever wins, punking its mid-teen projections with a $23.5M opening to Lionsgate’s Moonfall which lost gravity with $10M. To its benefit, the Jackass brand was never beaten as hard…

Moonfall director Roland Emmerich thinks Superhero and Star Wars films are ruining the industry. He is among the many actors and directors that have lambasted the state of the movie business because these types of movies exist. He sat down with Den of Geek and while talking about his newest disaster film, he…

You have to hand it to Roland Emmerich, who clearly loves his toys. After a series of disaster movies like Independence Day and its sequel, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, White House Down, 2012 and large-scale epics like his most recent one Midway, he dives right back in with his special effects team and heads to…

After two weekends without any major-studio wide releases amid Omicron fears, Paramount and Lionsgate will try to lure moviegoers back with Jackass Forever and Centropolis Entertainment’s Moonfall, respectively Exhibition hopefully will see more traffic after the Northeast experienced cabin fever from winter storm…

German production house and distributor Leonine Studios has signed an expanded partnership with local broadcaster Sky Deutschland. The multi-year license deal sees Sky acquire exclusive first pay-TV rights and SVOD rights in Germany for a period of 12 months to upcoming titles from Leonine Studios, as well as a number…

We’ve seen a number of global cataclysms in previous Roland Emmerich movies like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, now get ready for destruction of the universe on a whole other level.  Is it a magnetic field that’s smashing space stations, lunar rocks, and everything in its path of out of order? Or…

Heading into Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation Thursday afternoon, the studio’s Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake was trying to figure out what he wanted to say to the room of exhibitors. He regaled those at the Caesars Palace Colosseum with a story about how he met up with Cineworld and Regal boss Mooky…

Lionsgate said Wednesday that Roland Emmerich's sci-fi pic Moonfall will be released on February 4. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak and Donald Sutherland star in the big-canvas film, which at a reported budget of $140 million is the…