From the global scope of Indiana Jones to the spiraling hallways of Inception, two-time Oscar nominated production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas knows his way around an audacious big budget adventure film; with Passengers, though—from The Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum—Dyas saw an opportunity to enter an entirely new…

Sony Corp earlier this week warned of a $962M goodwill impairment charge for its Pictures division, and today in Tokyo it cut its net profit forecast for the year ending March 31, 2017. In announcing third-quarter results, the Japanese electronics giant said it now expects net income for the full fiscal year to be 26B…

TUESDAY UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Vin Diesel’s resurrection as the eponymous government operative in xXx: Return of Xander Cage led the international box office this weekend with a better-than-estimated $51.5M start in 53 markets. From Paramount Pictures and Revolution Studios, the extreme actioner muscled up…

UPDATE Writethru Wednesday AM with Sun/Mon actuals: As it closes in on $1B worldwide, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was nevertheless edged out of the No. 1 spot at the international box office for the first time this past frame. The 5th session on the Disney/Lucasfilm franchise spinoff saw the Rebel Alliance gather…

FX has added a few more solid boxoffice performers to its collection of tentpole theatrical movies. The list includes current releases Sing ($217 million boxoffice domestically to date), Hidden Figures ($30 million and current boxoffice #1), Passengers ($83 million), Why Him? ($50 million), Assassin’s Creed ($50…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals after Sunday 2:58 PM PT post: With solid performances from the major titles at the international box office this frame, the session was up about 8% versus last year across the Top 10 films. Leading the charge again was that rag-tag band of rebels out to steal plans for the Death Star…

7th Update, Monday AM: Early-morning estimates indicate that 20th Century Fox’s Hidden Figures has won the box office weekend with $22.8 million over Disney’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which made $21.9M. Essentially what happened was that the faith-based came out in bulk yesterday for Hidden Figures, giving it a…

An artist equally comfortable in the depths of outer space and in rural, small-town Virginia, in both epic and indie worlds, supervising sound editor Will Files contributed sound designs for two of this year's acclaimed pictures at opposite ends of the spectrum, the tense sci-fi actioner Passengers and Jeff Nichols'…

UPDATE, MONDAY: It was a Happy New Year's weekend for Disney as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story lifted its cume to $774.9 million at the global box office through the three-day. Factoring in the domestic Monday estimate, that rises to $789.7M. At international turnstiles, Rogue made away with a further $45.8M during the…

Passengers, which is now making its way through the Christmas box office crush, took its first voyage last month at our big annual awards-season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline, where director Morten Tyldum, writer Jon Spaihts, and film editor Maryann Brandon discussed the challenges of what Tyldum calls…

The second Tuesday for Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was bigger than its first, grossing an estimated $22.6M yesterday according to industry reports. Last week in its first Tuesday, Rogue One grossed $17.58M, but that’s when there were more kids in school. Rogue One‘s second Tuesday (which is -29%…

Updated, Tuesday, 5:23PM: FINAL CHRISTMAS WEEKEND ACTUALS A Christmas weekend that sends the annual box office past the $11B mark for the second year in a row can’t be discounted. And while among mass-appealing fare, Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Illumination/Universal’s Sing remained the top two…