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EXCLUSIVE: In the auction for North American rights to Paddington 2, a bull market has emerged for the animated bear from darkest Peru. Deadline has learned that Warner Bros and Sony are the front-runners in a deal that we expect will bring in north of $30 million for Studiocanal and embattled The Weinstein Company…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, with actuals: Still mighty after three overseas frames, Disney/Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok chiseled out another $77.3M at the international box office this weekend — up from the Sunday estimate. That takes the offshore cume to $440M, and lifts the worldwide tally to $652.1M. That global figure pushes…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of the mountain of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, there has been some confusion regarding the North American distribution fate of Paddington 2. This is the sequel to Heyday Films' and Studiocanal's 2014 family smash, on which The Weinstein Co has North…

Right about now, we could all use something warm, fuzzy and whimsical. And just in time comes the first official full-length trailer for Paddington 2, the follow-up to 2014’s $268M worldwide grosser. Check it out above as the marmalade-loving bear from darkest Peru gets mixed up in a new adventure that includes a case…

Michael Bond, creator of Paddington, the marmalade-loving bear from deepest darkest Peru, has died. Publisher Harper Collins UK announced the news this afternoon, saying Bond passed away at home on Tuesday after a short illness. He was 91. The British author sold his first short story in 1945 and published his first…

Get your marmalade sandwiches at the ready as Studiocanal and The Weinstein Company have dropped the first teaser trailer for Paddington 2, which sees the return of Peru's most loveable bear on another set of adventures with the Brown family in London. Paul King, who directed the first big-screen version of the bear…

The Weinstein Co./Dimension Films have just scheduled the sequel to Paddington for Jan. 12th of next year. The first film came out in the same time slot in January in 2015 and went onto make $268M worldwide, with about 71% of its gross coming from overseas audiences. Currently, there are a number of films set for the…

Paddington 2, the sequel to Heyday Films and Studiocanal’s 2014 global hit, has begun principal photography with Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson joining the returning cast including Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin. Ben Whishaw will reprise…