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EXCLUSIVE: UK production company Mad As Birds – which has credits including the Jackie Weaver and Diane Keaton comedy Poms and Gerard Butler mystery-thriller The Vanishing – has secured rights to Shaun Assael's non-fiction book The Murder Of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, And Heavyweights, about the investigation…

Sunday AM Update/writethru: Following Saturday 7:28AM post, with final: Warner Bros./Legendary’s Pokémon Detective Pikachu is coming in ahead of its $50M-$55M domestic tracking with a $58M No. 2 opening being called by the studio. They excelled with the first Pokemon movie back in 1999 with a $31M launch, and they’ve…

At a time when Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame is still the boss at the box office with a running global total of $2.27 billion, Legendary Entertainment/Warner Bros’ Pokémon Detective Pikachu is looking to push his way in and grab as much as he can with a $50 million–$55 million domestic opening weekend at…

Chairman of Motion Picture Group Adam Fogelson began STX’s CinemaCon session this morning heralding the mini-major’s progress with female-driven fare. “18% of our films are directed by women,  and 64% have had women in the lead role. 14% have had entire female led teams” and how the mini-major is an “artist friendly…

STXfilms has released the official trailer for POMS, its retirement-community comedy starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier and Rhea Perlman. The pic, directed by Zara Hayes and written by Shane Atkinson, opens nationwide May 10, just ahead of Mother’s Day weekend. The plot centers on Martha (Keaton), who…

STXfilms will open their AFM acquisition Poms on May 10, Mother’s Day weekend. The Diane Keaton movie opens close to a year after her previous hit spring comedy Book Club which earned $90M WW. When it comes to launching female-skewing fare, studios try to capitalize on Mother’s Day weekend as a launch pad. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: UK production outfit Mad As Birds Films, whose movie Poms scored the biggest deal at the recent AFM, is putting together a feature about Flora Sandes, the only British woman to enlist as a soldier and fight on the frontline in the First World War. Mad As Birds has optioned book A Fine Brother, Louise Miller…

EXCLUSIVE: STX has won U.S. rights to comedy Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver and Pam Grier, following a competitive multi-day auction. The deal is understood to be in the $8-9M range, making it the biggest deal so far at this year’s AFM. Keaton plays a woman who moves into a retirement home and recruits the…

EXCLUSIVE: For the second year in a row, a Diane Keaton comedy targeted at a mature audience is the one that has distributors hot and bothered at the start of the American Film Market. At least three studios are bidding for the Zara Hayes-directed Poms, in which Keaton plays a woman who moves into a retirement home…

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver are set to star in Poms, a comedy about a group of women who form a cheerleading squad at their retirement community. Nick Meyer's Sierra/Affinity is producing, financing and handling international sales for the project and will shop it to buyers in Cannes this month. Acclaimed…

Sierra/Affinity has come aboard to finance and produce Poms, a comedy to be directed by Battle Of The Sexes hemlmer Zara Hayes from a script by Shane Atkinson. Hayes and Atkinson combined on the story, about a diverse group of women at a retirement community who form a cheerleading club to fulfill their lifelong…