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6th UPDATE: 1:44 PM and 4:00 PM PT: Final grosses for all 25 films have been updated below. All final tallies are in from all studios. 5th UPDATE, 11:04 AM PT: Fast & Furious 7 final numbers are in and did a bit less than anticipated to race in with $166.9M for a 19-day international total of $857.9M. It has broken…

UPDATED, Monday, 4:18 PM: All grosses below have been updated with final tallies with better than anticipated performances from Paramount Picture’s latest in their Spongebob Squarepants series, Fox’s Oscar winning Birdman and a great opening for Disney’s Into the Woods in Japan. Meanwhile Big Hero 6 and Fifty Shades of…

2ND UPDATE, MONDAY, 2:20 PM: Disney’s eye-candy version of Cinderella opened to $2.3M less than estimated yesterday with a final box office tally of $67.8M. However the princess movie went over initial tracking estimates going into the weekend. You can’t beat Disney’s marketing prowess. Second to none but come on…

Tom Holkenborg’s film scores make a lot more sense when you remember that long before he worked in movies, the Dutch composer performed in dance clubs and arenas as Junkie XL. His compositions often feel like expanded versions of tunes first whipped up with a synthesizer and drum machine, then translated for an…

Liam Neeson, now 62, seems to have become the go-to guy for action films, particularly since the success of the Taken franchise has made him a household name in this area. The third and most recent of those films took in $88 million domestically and more internationally. Neeson stumbled a bit at the box office with…

UPDATE 1:43 PM: Walt Disney Pictures Cinderella, according to industry estimates, is looking at an excellent $22.5M first Friday putting it on track for an opening that’s just under $70M at $69M at 3,845 playdates. While that’s a fantastic opening, March has some tall opening records and that type of FSS would put Cind…

This weekend, Walt Disney Pictures is looking to charm every mother and tot daughter, not just Stateside, but across the globe with its live-action adaptation of Cinderella. With the U.S. box office in a slump over the last two weeks amid a dearth of fresh PG and PG-13 fare, exhibitors’ cash registers are expected to…

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Free has come aboard to produce The Burning Woman, a package that has Anne Hathaway circling to star in a spec script by Brad Ingelsby, whose latest script Run All Night, was turned into the Jaume Collet-Serra directed action film that stars Liam Neeson and Ed Harris. Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer…

To protect its Second Amendment rights, a handgun manufacturer is blasting Liam Neeson for exercising his First Amendment rights. "There's too many f*cking guns out there," the actor said recently. "I think the (US) population is like 320 million. There's over 300 million guns privately owned in America. I think it's…

Two months before In The Heart Of The Sea was set to open, Warner Bros has pushed its Ron Howard-directed high-seas drama all the way to December 11, setting it squarely in Oscar’s cross hairs. The Village Roadshow Pictures film — which had been set for a March 13 bow for more than a year — is based on Nathaniel…

Nice timing, this. The same day Liam Neeson hits theaters in Taken 3 comes the first trailer for his next shoot-’em-up. In Run All Night, the late-blooming action hero plays an over-the-hill hitman once known as the Gravedigger. Now better at draining whiskey bottles than his victims’ lifeblood, he is forced to get…

The studio said in February that the pic starring Liam Neeson and Joel Kinnaman would come out next year, and now it has a firm date. Run All Night, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a Brad Ingelsby script, is set for April 17. Action hero Neeson stars as a graying hitman forced to take on his brutal ex-boss to…