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UPDATE, WRITETHRU, MONDAY PM PT with actuals: For the second frame in a row, Chinese New Year releases notched the Top 3 spots at the international box office, led by Jackie Chan’s Kung Fu Yoga at $51.4M ($178M cume). But offshore auds outside the Middle Kingdom embraced Hollywood heart, horror and thrills. Studio…

6TH WRITETRHU, Monday finals: Don’t blame the Super Bowl for the lackluster performance of this weekend’s new entries: Paramount’s Rings and STX’s teen romance The Space Between Us, which are opening to $13 million in second place and $3.77M in ninth, respectively. Money was left on the table here by those…

Super Bowl weekend isn’t necessarily the worst frame at the box office, and distributors over time have learned to navigate it. Yeah, yeah, business is going to slide Sunday, but there’s still a decent amount of business to be had Friday and Saturday. It just depends if there’s a movie on the marquee that people want…

Fall 2016 will be less crowded by at least one: Paramount Picture’s Rings, previously scheduled for October 28, has been bumped to a February 3, 2017 wide release. The move give Universal’s Ouija: Origin of Evil, opening October 21, a good stake on the Halloween market. This marks the second time this year that Rings…

Paramount has released the first trailer for Rings, the third installment of the popular horror franchise that launched in 2002 with The Ring starring Naomi Watts. From director Javier Gutierrez comes the return of Samara and the cursed tape that strikes terror to those who press play, which leads to their demise…

Paramount just announced that it’s moved up the release of Richard Linklater’s 1980s college baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some from April 15, where it was set as a wide release, to April 1, where it will now go as limited. The studio will expand the movie on April 8 and again a week later. Meanwhile, Paramount’s…

As Paramount Pictures braces for this week’s opening of Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, the studio said today it is pushing back the release dates for two franchise horror films by half a year. The threequel Rings had been set for November 13 but now won’t be unleashed until April 1, 2016. Meanwhile, Jason…

Exclusive: Johnny Galecki has signed on to play one of the leads in Paramount’s Rings, the third installment of the horror franchise about a cursed videotape that kills a viewer within seven days. Galecki will play Gabriel, a handsome, pleasure-seeking professor who mentors and helps boyfriend and girlfriend duo, Holt…

Aimee Teegarden has joined Matilda Lutz and Alex Roe in Paramount’s Rings, the third installment in the horror franchise about a cursed video tape that unleashes a demonic horror which kills the unwitting viewer within seven days. Formerly called The Ring 3D, Rings began principle photography in Atlanta this week…

Alex Roe, one of the co-stars in Sony Pictures’ YA film The 5th Wave, has just been cast as the male lead in the third installment of Paramount Pictures’ horror franchise Rings for director Javier Guierrez (Before The Fall). This is a nice starring role for the actor (and the second big role in a year) who will star…

After pushing the next installment of its Friday The 13th back eight months from March 13 to November 13, Paramount Pictures is kicking Jason again — this time to 2016 with a release on Friday, May 13. Currently occupying that slot is an untitled R-rated comedy from Universal Pictures. The latest rendition of Friday Th…