I already had a headache from fretting about the ballot measure to split California. Who gets the water? What happens to Prop 13? Where's Yosemite? Can we still repeal the gas tax? Are the prisons in one state, the criminals in another? What about the bullet train? How do we divvy up Jerry Brown's legacy? Then I came…

Laurence Bowen’s London-based Dancing Ledge Productions has entered into a deal with publisher HarperCollins to adapt the novels of Alistair MacLean as event TV series. The first project under the pact is San Andreas, a thriller set on board a torpedoed WW II hospital ship. Tony Marchant (The Secret Agent) is…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses, and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that myster…

Warner Bros which hasn’t had the best of years still managed to bring in $2.11 billion dollars from the international market, about $520 million more than from its domestic operations. The studio pointed out that it was the eighth time Warner Bros Pictures International has grossed more than $2 billion in a year and…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Peyton is in talks with New Line Cinema to direct Rampage, reteaming him with the key players from the summer hit San Andreas. Dwayne Johnson is starring and Beau Flynn is producing. This comes as the San Andreas‘ gross has shaken past the $460 million global gross mark worldwide to become most…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson is re-teaming with New Line and producer Beau Flynn for Rampage, a live action feature that has been set for a 2016 summer production start. The film is based on the classic 80’s Midway Arcade Game that has since had numerous incarnations on different gaming platforms. They are keeping the…

4th UPDATE, Monday 1:02 PM and 1:36 PM: Universal Pictures Interntional’s Jurassic World continues to stomp through box office records overseas by reaching $500M on Saturday — the fastest than any film in the studio’s 103-year history. With $584.4M offshore and over $400M in the states, it is also dino-soaring to the…

Coming off of an $18.8M international weekend, New Line/Village Roadshow/Warner Bros' San Andreas now has a global gross of $414.2M, with Japan, Spain and South Africa yet to open. The Dwayne Johnson action thriller has thus far rocked $132.2M domestically and $282M in offshore markets since beginning roll out on May…

UPDATED, MONDAY, 9:18 AM, 11:26 AM and 1:20 PM PT: Market breakdowns for Jurassic World, which broke records around the world this morning, are in below as is Disney, Fox and Warner Bros.’s titles such as San Andreas. Internationally, JW's final gross ended up with a $315.3M tally, which means it officially passed Harr…

Warner Bros.’ disaster film San Andreas rippled past $100M domestically last night after two weekends and a day in release. The film, which stars social media darling Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, now has a worldwide total of $300M, having hauled in another $97.7M as of Sunday internationally in its second weekend. Of…

Monday, FINAL UPDATE, 2:38 PM: All pictures (but Disney’s) were down from their Sunday studio estimates this weekend but the real news is this is the third soft box office weekend in a row. The box office is off 18.9% from 2014 when The Fault in Our Stars opened to $48M and Maleficent had $34.2M in its coffers. The…

4th UPDATE, 1:39 PM, PT: Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World, which is expected to make a large international footprint, will open in 66 markets, including China and France in only a couple of days, on Wednesday, June 10. As we wait, this weekend’s San Andreas opened in China to $51M after six days, marking the highest…