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UPDATED, MONDAY: 2:00 PM: This Christmas holiday 2015 may not have gotten to the $300M mark, but it still is the biggest Christmas ever and with $295.5M it’s the second-best weekend of all time at the box office, thanks to a Force that just won’t quit. Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on its way now to the…

4th Update, 6:50 PM: We are seeing how the new pictures are lining up right now this Christmas Day and the NBA game did have a bit of an impact, but it appears that tonight’s business is robust. Star Wars: The Force Awakens could make $47.5M to $50M today and is heading towards a $150M to $160M three-day. Of the new…

UPDATE 11:30 with more information throughout. Sure, everyone knows that the astonishing reach of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on social media is, well, a phenomenon — look below for Albert Brooks’ tweet of the year on Star Wars. But how are other titles at the starting line faring in the online universe? To give some…

“The tracking is so fragmented,” exclaimed one distribution source today about the presence of Disney’s titan Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the marketplace and how it’s impacting projections. As a result, a number of the wide releases will be clustered together in regards to their openings on the chart. While studio…

Earlier this month, Alcon Entertainment/DMG Entertainment/Warner Bros' Point Break tried out a new experiment by releasing in China three weeks ahead of domestic. The decision was strategic — in part to be the final Western film in the PROC ahead of the December blackout and also to give the film a boost going into…

UPDATED, 6:45 PM Monday: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 pulled off a surprise of its own when international box office figures were retallied today. MJ2 reclaimed the top spot following an unexpected two-day “preview” surge by the Chinese title Surprise that appeared to give it the lead over Katniss and company…

Get ready for a massive, Oscar-level traffic headache, Los Angeles. Monday’s Death Star-sized premiere party for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was already going to close off a huge chunk of Hollywood Blvd to make way for the big return to a galaxy far, far away. But that section of Los Angeles isn’t just being overrun…

4TH UPDATE, TUESDAY AM WRITETHRU: In a comparatively soft frame, international box office was down about 32% versus last week across the Top 10 studio titles. That’s due to a convergence of holdovers that are deeper into their runs, or taking a staggered release approach — and new arrivals that were never expected to…

EXCLUSIVE: Earlier tonight local time, Beijing was the host city for the world premiere of Point Break from DMG Entertainment, Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. This is the first time that a global launch of a Hollywood title has taken place in the Middle Kingdom. The movie, directed by Ericson Core, is making…

EXCLUSIVE: The Point Break remake is about to break new ground. The film from Alcon Entertainment, DMG Entertainment and Warner Bros is headed for an early December release date in China which is somewhat unprecedented on two fronts. On the one hand, while China has approved a bunch of Hollywood movies to open in the…

A full 24 years after Keanu Reeves’ super chill yet morally conflicted FBI undercover agent Johnny Utah hunted down bank-robbing surfers led by Patrick Swayze, Point Break is getting a modernized remake courtesy of Warner Bros. You know that, but with the new trailer, we now have an idea of just how modernized. In a…

EXCLUSIVE: Luke Bracey has been set to star opposite Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn and Sam Worthington in the Mel Gibson-directed Hacksaw Ridge. Pic tells the story of Desmond Doss, the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Medal Of Honor for bravery in World War II. Bracey is on his way…