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UPDATED with executive comments: Lionsgate beat forecasts by Wall Street analysts for its fiscal first quarter, reporting Thursday a fully diluted loss of 4 cents per share of and total revenue of $932.7 million. Analysts had called for a loss of 7 cents a share and revenue of $885.1 million. The key metrics in the…

Lionsgate beat Wall Street estimates for the fourth quarter ending March 31, with TV production gains offsetting a drop in the motion picture business, which faced tough comparisons with the year-earlier La La Land quarter. Total revenue of $1.04 billion came in $30 million ahead of estimates, and fully diluted…

Following the box-office splash of Overboard, Lionsgate has set a TV deal with producer and star Eugenio Derbez and producing partner Benjamin Odell's 3Pas Studios. Under the deal, 3Pas will produce English and Spanish-language series for Lionsgate’s TV group as well as its streaming platforms, including recently…

6th Update, Monday AM: In early morning studio reports, Avengers: Infinity War is now looking at a second weekend of $115.5M, a figure we first spotted all the way back on Friday afternoon. Note that’s -55% from the Marvel pic’s record opening. Rivals now estimate that Avengers made $37.5M yesterday, -20% from…

It’s been 30 years since Goldie Hawn’s pampered heiress tormented carpenter Kurt Russell then got amnesia in the Garry Marshall-directed comedy Overboard. Now director Rob Greenberg has flipped the gender roles for a remake starring Eugenio Derbez as a spoiled playboy and Anna Faris as a put-upon single mom hired to…

The Eugenio Derbez comedy Overboard, a re-imaging of the 1987 Garry Marshall-directed comedy, has just been slated for April 20 of next year. The MGM/Pantelion Films/3Pas Studios film will go wide that day and go head to head now with the Jason Reitman comedy Tully, written by Diablo Cody and starring Charlize Theron…

Mexican comedy stars Omar Chaparro (No Manches Frida) and Adrián Uribe (Suave Patria) have joined Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris and Eva Longoria in the comedy remake Overboard. Chaparro and Uribe are currently touring the U.S. and Mexico with their live comedy show Imparables. Production is underway in Vancouver on Overbo…

The West Wing alum Bradley Whitford has been cast in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the monster-verse sequel from Warner Bros and Legendary. The film, which remains tight-lipped on its plot, is directed by Michael Dougherty from a screenplay he penned with Zach Shields. Whitford joins a solid roster that includes…

EXCLUSIVE: Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria is set to co-star opposite Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez in Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg’s romantic comedy Overboard, the MGM/ Pantelion Films re-imaging to the 1980s pic that starred Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. The role-reversal adaption follows a spoiled playboy…

Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez have signed on to topline the MGM/Pantelion Films/3Pas Studios film Overboard, a re-imaging to the 1987 Garry Marshall-directed screwball comedy that starred Goldie Hawn as the selfish heiress and Kurt Russell as working-class guy who she eventually falls for. Rob Greenberg and Bob Fisher…