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4th Update, Sunday AM Final: First of all, it’s a really crappy weekend at the box office overall, with ticket sales down 28% from a year ago with $121.6M. The Veterans Day frame either goes one of two ways: It’s a great place to launch a blockbuster, i.e. 2012’s Skyfall ($88.3M), 2013’s Thor: Dark World (2013), or…

Last weekend didn’t start the fire at the November box office after Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s mechanical breakdown with Terminator: Dark Fate, which is set to lose $130 million off an estimated combined $325M production and global P&A cost and $29M stateside opening. This weekend, Warner Bros in a rare move for…

Paramount released the first trailer for Playing With Fire, the upcoming family comedy starring John Cena as a firefighter who, along with his team (Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo and Tyler Mane) rescue three children and, unable to locate the siblings’ parents, become inadvertent and unlikely babysitters. Think…

Paramount is moving up John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place 2 from its first announced May 15, 2020 date to March 20, 2020. The new release date brings the sci-fi horror thriller back to the original’s spring launchpad. A Quiet Place made its world premiere at SXSW last year and opened roughly a month later on April 6, to…

UPDATED, 12:15 PM: Paramount said today that its Alexandre Aja-helmed horror pic Crawl has moved from an August 23 wide release to July 12. The pic starring Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper will open against STX’s Chadwick Boseman thriller 17 Bridges and Fox’s Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani action comedy Stuber. PREVIOU…

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer is set to star opposite John Cena in Paramount Players’ upcoming Playing With Fire from director Andy Fickman. The Halloween star will play Dr. Amy Hicks in the pic who is the love interest to Cena’s John Carson. In Playing With Fire, a depot in the remote Eastern Sierras becomes an unlikely safe…