With Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from several Muslim majority nations causing detentions, protests, corporate jitters and fears it will become a terrorist recruiting tool overseas, domestic Jihadism is set to become the focus of a new documentary from Showtime. Taking the working title American Jihad, the…

FINAL UPDATE, TUESDAY, 4:23 PM: This morning saw director Ted Melfi’s Hidden Figures get a nice boost on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with this wisely timed rollout of what is now being seen nationwide by both sides of the equation as a patriotic film. 2oth Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment’s Hidden Figures…

Known for their long standing collaboration with David Fincher, from The Social Network through Gone Girl, Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have gone on in recent years to work with a wider variety of directors on both narrative features and documentaries—including Fisher Stevens’ climate change…

Without a major four-quad tentpole release in place over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend — the first in some time — a trio of wide releases and a trio of wide expansions are crowding the box office marketplace. The glut is making a No. 1 winner unclear, especially following the surprise win last weekend for…

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%…

UPDATE with more info: The limited-release arrivals of Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg’s latest Patriots Day and Martin Scorsese’s Silence topped Christmas holiday openers this frame at the specialty box office. CBS Films/Lionsgate's Patriots Day had a five-day estimate of $256,718 in seven locations, while…

After telling the real-life heroic stories of people undergoing extreme and harrowing events in Lone Survivor and earlier this fall in Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and star-producer Mark Wahlberg have collaborated again for the inside story behind the heroes who cracked the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing case…

“Good vs. Evil. Love vs. Hate. The only weapon you have to fight back with” is the theme featured in a new trailer for Patriots Day from CBS Films and Lionsgate just released. It comes only about a week before the picture heads into the nation’s theaters (it opens in limited venues Wednesday). In addition to film…

EXCLUSIVE: If Best Picture was determined by the Boston citizenry, Patriots Day would likely win, going away. On Wednesday evening, CBS Films, Lionsgate, director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg and his fellow producers unveiled the drama about the 105 hours that followed the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. That started…

EXCLUSIVE: In their third collaboration after Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon, director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg turn their ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances storytelling to Patriots Day. Few have made more memorable Boston-based films than Wahlberg, whose list includes The Perfect Storm, The Departed…

"For Mark to take the lead and say we're going to tell your story, we're going to do it with respect, and we really do everything we can to look you in the eye when you see the film and feel that we got it right," said Patriots Day director Peter Berg at The Contenders Presented by Deadline of star and Boston native Ma…

This week’s installment of The Bart & Fleming Podcast, Episode #4, centers on the resurgence of fact-based movies this awards season, ranging from Jackie to Mark Wahlberg’s Patriots Day, and the controversies they inevitably stir. Also discussed: The reasons why DreamWorks and Sam Mendes abruptly cancelled plans to…