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Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, with what amounts to 85% of its international footprint stomping across the globe, has grossed $128M in 62 territories. Warner Bros. enjoyed its biggest weekend ever in China where it opened to $61.7M on its 18,200 screens. That one territory — where it has enjoyed a high Douban…

UPDATE, writethru: Legendary/Universal's Pacific Rim: Uprising came in slightly higher than Saturday estimates, topping $150M worldwide on its opening weekend with $150.5M. The debut clocked $122.5M at the international box office, including $65M in China which was the biggest home for the original 2013 film — and a…

4th Update, Sunday AM: Sci-fi/fantasy movies with heavy VFX  (no, we’re not talking superhero titles, Star Wars, Hobbit or Harry Potter) which no longer work stateside continue to be pumped out by studios as they seek to capitalize on such fare’s appeal in burgeoning overseas markets. Legendary has delivered many of…

Legendary/Universal's Pacific Rim: Uprising is now open in 62 offshore markets, including China, the biggest hub for the 2013 original. There, Pac Rim 2 is eyeing a $65M three-day start, roughly on par with Black Panther's opening from two weeks ago (that film crossed $100M in the PROC on Thursday as it peters out)…

The Kaiju are back. How’d they get into our world, you wonder? “Someone let them in,” answers this new trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising. With new footage and poster art, this peek at the Universal-Legendary sequel features lots of action between the big monsters and the Jaeger pilots who fight them. We see John Boyega…

The full-on trailer for Legendary’s Pacific Rim: Uprising just dropped at New York Comic-Con during the pic’s panel. Steven S. DeKnight directs the follow-up to the Guillermo del Toro film which takes place 10 years after the previous movie which in layman’s terms is essentially a Transformers vs. lizard monster…

The release date for Legendary's Pacific Rim Uprising is being pushed by a month from February 23 of next year to March 23, Universal said this afternoon. That places it on the same weekend as Liongate’s Jamie Foxx-starring Robin Hood and one week before Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One from Warner Bros. The date…

So what, exactly, is a Jaeger? If you answered with the words the “pinnacle of human invention,” maybe you’ve already peaked at this “recruitment video” for Pacific Rim: Uprising. “When the monsters came,” says a mellifluous narrator, “we did not wait for heroes to fall from the sky and save us.” Hmm, sounds like a…

EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming actress Cailee Spaeny, after securing the female lead opposite John Boyega in Legendary/Universal’s upcoming sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, has inked with WME for representation, moving from Innovative. Steven S. DeKnight directed the second installment to Guillermo del Toro and Travis…

Skylar Astin is set to join Brenton Thwaites in writer-director Eric Bress’ supernatural psychological thriller Ghosts Of War. The film follows five American soldiers assigned to hold a French mansion against the Nazis in 1944 and find themselves in a hell of their own when forced to battle the spirits of a family…