EXCLUSIVE: Gil Kenan has made a deal with Warner Bros to direct Five Nights At Freddy's, a live-action adaptation of the popular video game series created by Scott Cawthon. It is an online sensation that takes place in a Chuck-E-Cheese-like eatery, where an animatronic animal that is part of the house band becomes a…

Memorial Day weekend might be over, but it’s still summer for the major studios. With close to 27% of schools K-12 out this Friday, and growing each weekend, multiplex lobbies should continue to see some foot traffic. Despite any ennui from the lackluster Memorial Day weekend, distrib execs firmly believe it’s a…

6th UPDATE, Tuesday 4:15 PM: Disney’s Tomorrowland came in slightly higher than what was reported with $42.679M for the 4-day. With a global weekend of $74.7M, the B.O. for Tomorrowland reps anywhere from 39% to 42% of its lofty $180M-$190M budget. Not a good start. Furthermore, among Memorial Day bows, it’s way down…

Updated with latest Disney, Warner Bros, Uni and Fox figures, Tuesday 3:51PM: Walt Disney's sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland came in first among new releases overseas with a $32.1M from 65 territories representing roughly 56% of the international marketplace. Combined with its North American 4-day tally of $42.6M that…

UPDATE, Friday 7:52 AM: Disney just reported for Tomorrowland with $725K from its limited run in what they’ve been calling 701 “premium/palace locations” (which means IMAX and PLF screens) with a nice $1,077 per screen average. Had they played the film on a greater number of screens — in the 2,500 to 3,000 range…

Memorial Day weekend will really kick off at 7 PM on Thursday when previews for the sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland begin with IMAX letting go of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron (after its fourth weekend) and taking hold of the Disney film that stars George Clooney and two young stars Britt Robertson and Raffey…

The 2015 release schedule carousel has spun again as Fox moves its creepshow reboot away from Fifty Shades Of Grey and will counter instead with the male-skewing comic book actioner from X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughn. The shifts give MGM co-distributed Poltergeist a July 24 release, making it the first…

20th Century Fox has announced new release dates on three films, including staking out July 29, 2016, for its Untitled Planet of the Apes project. It will be released two weeks after the next installment in another franchise Ice Age 5. It also has announced a date shuffle for Valentine’s Day next year. It is dropping…

Delroy Lindo has joined the cast of Cymbeline, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s biker-gang-and-bad-cops take on the Shakespeare play. Lindo will portray Belarius, a manly, battered and paranoid noble. Ed Harris, Dakota Johnson, Penn Badgely, Milla Jovovich, Ethan Hawke, Boyd Holbrook and Anton Yelchin also star in…

EXCLUSIVE: Sherlock Holmes star Jared Harris has nabbed a lead role in MGM and Fox 2000’s Poltergeist reboot. Harris will play Carrigan, a larger than life TV personality who left the world of academia behind to become the star host of basic cable TV show Haunted House Cleaners. Gil Kenan is directing from a script…

EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is the choice to play the female lead in Poltergeist, the new installment of the Tobe Hooper-directed horror classic that will be made by MGM and Fox 2000, with Gil Kenan directing a script by David Lindsay-Abaire. They are looking to cast the male lead. Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson…

LOS ANGELES, CA (June 20, 2013) – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), a division of MGM Holdings Inc., has partnered with Fox 2000 Pictures, a division of Twentieth Century Fox, to co-finance and distribute the film "Poltergeist," it was announced today by MGM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Barber and…