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While No Time to Die producer Barbara Broccoli admitted today that the stewards of the 007 franchise don't yet know how James Bond will return after Daniel Craig's swansong as the super secret agent, she did allow, "We'll figure that one out, but he will be back. You can rest assured James Bond will be back." Broccoli…

UPDATE: Notably on the menu this weekend overseas were new openers Disney's Encanto and MGM/Universal's House Of Gucci. The former came in lower than hoped at the international box office, with $29.3M in 47 material markets, though it did make the low end of its global projection at $69.6M (including domestic‘s 5-day…

EXCLUSIVE: The highest-grossing movie during the pandemic, MGM/United Artists Releasing’s No Time to Die was also the most-pirated movie for the period of November 15-21. In addition, the most-ripped TV season during the past week was Amazon’s adaptation of the Robert Jordan fantasy novel The Wheel of Time. All of…

UPDATE, writethru: There was a lot of holdover play this session overseas with one major new Hollywood addition in Sony's Ghostbusters: Afterlife which came in essentially on par with pre-weekend offshore projections at $16M in 31 international box office markets. However, with domestic's overperformance, the Jason…

MGM/Eon/Universal's No Time to Die is crossing $733M worldwide this weekend, making it the highest-grossing Hollywood film of 2021 — and of the pandemic era. After topping $708M through last Sunday, and becoming the biggest Hollywood movie overseas in 2021 and throughout the pandemic, we've been expecting Mr. Bond to…

Netflix’s $200M Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds feature Red Notice was a sensation in U.S. Samba TV measured households, pulling in an awesome 4.2M in its Friday-Sunday debut. The Rawson Marshall Thurber written and directed movie decimated the first weekend viewership of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend o…

"There are real grounds for optimism in our industry," Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger beamed today as the world's second largest exhibitor issued a trading update. The company reached "an important milestone" in its recovery, generating positive cash flow in October, it said in the statement. Although it didn't get…

UPDATE, writethru: After seven weekends of offshore release, MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die continues to bond with audiences and has crossed $700M global. Importantly, that includes over $558M at the international box office, making Bond 25 the biggest Hollywood movie overseas in 2021 and throughout the pandemic…

UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Marvel's Eternals has come in ahead of projections with an opening weekend of $90.7M at the international box office, and $161.7M global when paired with domestic. This gives the Chloé Zhao-directed film bragging rights to the second-biggest worldwide opening for a Hollywood title in 2021…

Daniel Craig’s final Bond film, No Time to Die, will become available for rental on U.S. digital platforms on Tuesday, following a 31-day theatrical window, Deadline has confirmed. The title from MGM and United Artists Releasing will appear on all major platforms, including Amazon, Apple, Xfinity, DirecTV, Spectrum…

Who says people don’t want to go to the movies and are complete lemmings for streaming? Comscore this morning reports that the October domestic box office clocked $638M, the highest month to date during the pandemic beating July’s $583.8M. Seventy-five percent of October’s figure was driven by major studio event pics…

UPDATE, writethru: Powered by the international box office, and in a continued sign that overseas audiences are eager to return to cinemas for event fare, this was yet another weekend of milestones. MGM/Eon/Universal's No Time To Die, as projected, crossed the $600M global mark this session, leading offshore play with…