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5TH UPDATE, Sunday 8:20 AM Final: In a weekend with distributors offering five wide entries, most of which were paltry, audiences decided what was old was new for them as 20th Century Fox’s The Martian shot its way back to No. 1 with an estimated $15.9M and $166.4M. Sony’s Goosebumps chased behind in No. 2 with a…

If there was ever a weekend when distributors were looking to cannibalize one another this is the one, as five fresh wide releases are hitting theaters. What gives? One reason is that most distributors want to avoid Halloween next weekend (October 30-November 1), which is falling on a Saturday. The holiday is expected…

Newly established film production outfit Covert Media has announced the hiring of sales veteran Elizabeth Kim Schwan as President, International. Schwan will be joining the Covert team in Toronto during TIFF as the company meets potential production and distribution partners during the fest that kicks off…

Here’s the first full trailer for Barry Levinson’s pic starring Bill Murray as a washed-up — except in his mind — music manager who finds a potential career savior in an unexpected place. After he is dumped in Afghanistan by his only remaining client (Zooey Deschanel), Richie Lanz makes a discovery. Local teenager…

It wasn’t exactly the crowning of a new king but it was at least the respect owed to a visiting head of state: Comic-Con 2015 kicked off in Hall H with Bill Murray’s first-ever appearance at the convention. Murray was on hand for Open Road Films’ presentation, devoted exclusively to his upcoming comedy Rock The…

Here’s our first look at Bill Murray up to his old tricks in Barry Levinson’s new movie. This first teaser for Rock The Kasbah follows Richie Lanz, a past-his-prime music manager who escorts his latest client (Zooey Deschanel) on a USO trip to Afghanistan, where she’ll “play in front of 2,000 horny soldiers.” When…

Open Road has set an April 24, 2015 wide release for the Bill Murray-led comedy Rock The Kasbah, about a has-been rock ‘n’ roll manager who takes his last client on a USO tour of Afghanistan and discovers a young local girl with a golden voice, then manages her through Afghanistan’s version of American Idol. Bruce…

Zooey Deschanel just tweeted this photo from the set of Bill Murray-starrer, Barry Levinson-directed Rock The Kasbah. Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Scott Caan and Danny McBride also star in the pic about a a down-on-his-luck rock manager who takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. After finding…

Bill Murray, aka “The Murricane,” is blowing through Berlin this week on what’s become a sort of one-man comedy tour — and a fun distraction from a thus-far quiet market. Yesterday, he was out in support of Wes Anderson’s opening-night film The Grand Budapest Hotel, riffing that he worked for “low wages and stale bread…

BREAKING: Open Road Films is loading its slate with strong pre-bought ensemble pics. Just a day after it pre-bought rights to the John Hillcoat heist thriller Triple Nine, the distributor has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Rock The Kasbah, the Barry Levinson-directed comedy that stars Bill Murray, Bruce Willis…

BREAKING: Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride, Shia LaBeouf and Zooey Deschanel are joining Bill Murray in Rock The Kasbah, the pic Mitch Glazer wrote and Barry Levinson is directing. QED's Bill Block, Venture Forth's Jacob Pechenik, Shangri-La Entertainment's Steve Bing and Glazer are producing, and Brian Grazer…