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2ND UPDATE, TUESDAY 4 AM PT: Actuals are in for the international weekend with no major discrepancies save for a big drop on Taken 3. After Sunday’s report of a $57.2M total in non-Fox markets, the confirmed total came in at $39.8M. The difference was down to an incorrect cume provided to Fox by EuropaCorp for those…

ACTUALS, MONDAY PM: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow was slightly higher in the three-day actuals reported today with $64.6M and a $200.4M running domestic cume in its fifth frame (vs. yesterday’s weekend estimate of $64.3M and $200.1M). Originally, Warner Bros. was expecting to make $17.28M on Sunday, but their fall…

It was the tale of two stars at the weekend box office, one who opened a film — Jennifer Lopez with Universal’s The Boy Next Door at $15M — and one who tanked — Johnny Depp with Lionsgate’s Mortdecai at $4.1M. The discrepancy between the two films showed one star, Lopez, who kept it cheap and met her audience's wants…

As I say in my video review above of Lionsgate’s period comedy Mortdecai, which opens in wide release today, the actors aren’t to blame for this send-up of UK author Kyril Bonfiglioli’s 1970s books about a misadventurous British art dealer and general rapscallion. Johnny Depp fans will appreciate his comic chops…

A very valuable painting has been swiped, and our hero agrees to find it for queen and country — plus expenses and reasonable overheard, of course. Johnny Depp stars as Lord Charles Mortdecai, mustachioed art dealer/aficionado and part-time rogue, who crosses the pond to America in search of the missing piece. Here’s…

The mini-major today bumped up the release of Johnny Depp’s action comedy by two weeks and moved the Blake Lively romantic drama back by three months. Mortdecai, in which Depp plays a debonair art dealer caught up in international intrigue, is replacing The Age Of Adeline in the January 23 slot, where it will square…

Lionsgate has dropped the first teaser trailer for Mortdecai, which stars Johnny Depp as debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mordecai. Charlie juggles angry Russians, the British MI5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist as he travels the globe in a race to recover a stolen painting…

Lionsgate has slotted Johnny Depp-starrer Mortdecai for February 6, 2015. The action comedy, adapted from the 1970s novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, centers on debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai (Depp). Charlie juggles angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international…

Lionsgate and Oddlot Entertainment have added Aubrey Plaza, Oliver Platt and Jeff Goldblum to the cast of Mortdecai, joining Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor and Gwyneth Paltrow in the action comedy based on Kyril Bonfiglioli’s three-novel anthology. Plaza currently stars on NBC’s Parks And Recreation. On the film side she…

Southland‘s Dorian Missick has been cast in Columbia’s Annie remake. He and Tracie Thoms will play Annie’s “fake parents” in the pic which stars Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie Foxx. Will Smith and Jay-Z are producing the Christmas 2014 release which begins filming in NYC this Fall. Missick recently shot the Jerry…

The first pic to fall under this multi-movie, multi-year deal is Mortdecai, the Johnny Depp action comedy adapted from the 1970s novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli. David Koepp is set to direct from Eric Aronson's script. Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany and, as we broke, The Newsroom‘s Olivia Munn are aboard to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Newsroom actress soon could be added to the cast of the adaptation of Kyril Bonfigloi's anti-hero art dealer novels. I've learned Olivia Munn is in negotiations to join Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor in the David Koepp-directed Mortdecai. Details are sketchy about Munn's potential role…