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3RD UPDATE, TUESDAY 4:48 AM PT: We now have actuals from most of the studios for the international weekend. Among the biggest fluctuations reported were Penguins Of Madagascar, which landed $2M higher than projected on Sunday; American Sniper clocking an extra $1M; and Jennifer Lopez's The Boy Next Door knocking…

UPDATE, MONDAY ACTUALS, 4 PM: All of the top 10 films, except for Fox’s Taken 3, came in lower than their weekend projections yesterday morning due to the Super Bowl, with Warner Bros./Village Roadshow missing its target record as the largest grossing title over Super Bowl weekend. Disney’s Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus…

I didn’t expect much from Project Almanac, but boy, was I pleasantly surprised by this teen-oriented time-travel story, as I say in my video review above. The film stars Johnny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista and Amy Landecker. It was directed by Dean Israelite, from a script by Andrew…

EXCLUSIVE: Skins and Gossip Girl actress Sofia Black-D’Elia has been cast opposite Jack Huston, Morgan Freeman, and Toby Kebbell in Ben-Hur, which Timur Bekmambetov is directing for MGM and Paramount Pictures. The historical epic chronicles the blood feud between Judah Ben-Hur (Huston) and Messala that erupts when…

Paramount has set a January 30, 2015 release date for its MTV Films-Platinum Dunes sci-fi pic now known as Project Almanac. The Dean Israelite-helmed found-footage pic originally was titled Almanac and had a late February 2013 release date. Then the studio changed the name to Welcome To Yesterday in December and moved…