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UPDATED, Monday 1:28 PM: The little Minions made it big for Universal and Illumination Entertainment, ending the weekend with $115.7M, good for the second-best animated opening ever. It also broke through a number of studio records (see Sunday’s reporting below) as it crossed a milestone worldwide, gathering together…

Minions is in the driver’s seat and tracking right now between $100M and $115M+ for the three-day as Friday matinee numbers are rolling in. So far, and it is very early, the latest in the animated family franchise could log a Friday gross of $40M-$45M. Not too shabby for Universal Pictures and Illumination…

6:37 AM, 7:06 AM and 7:45 AM: Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions is off to a phenomenal start at the box office with a preview gross of $6.2M. It’s already breaking records as it marks the biggest late night result for an animated film. It opened at 6 PM last night in 2,985 theaters, so it’s really a…

Focus Features has shifted the date of its sci-fi thriller Self/Less from July 31 to July 10. The Tarsem Singh-directed pic sees a megarich and self-involved architect (Ben Kingsley) who's dying of cancer undergo a procedure that puts him in the body of a healthy younger man (Ryan Reynolds). Bad things happen after…

“We offer humanity’s greatest minds more time to fill their potential.” Nice pitch. But later it’s revealed that “immortality has some side effects.” Here’s the first full trailer for director Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi thriller Self/Less, which sees a megarich and self-involved architect (Ben Kingsley) who’s dying of…

Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald’s treasure hunt adventure Black Sea starring Jude Law as a submarine captain with a mutinous misfit crew will get a limited release January 23, Focus Features said today. Written by Dennis Kelly, Black Sea also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Konstantin Khabenskiy and Michael Smiley…

As part of the October deal that saw FilmDistrict being absorbed into Focus Features, the latter has taken over distribution of two more titles and announced a new release date for one of them. The sci-fi thriller Selfless, starring Ryan Reynolds, originally had been set for September 2014 but now will go out wide on…

Victor Garber has been set to co-star opposite Ryan Reynolds in Selfless, the indie sci-fi thriller from FilmDistrict and Endgame Entertainment being directed by Tarsem. The script from Alex and David Pastor centers on a terminally ill billionaire who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his consciousness…

FilmDistrict and Endgame Entertainment’s Selfless has found a female lead in Natalie Martinez, who will play the wife of Ryan Reynolds‘ character in the Tarsem-helmed sci-fi thriller. Reynolds stars in the tale of a terminally ill billionaire who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his consciousness into…

Tarsem-directed Selfless will bow wide on September 26, 2014 opposite Focus Features’ animated The Boxtrolls. Ryan Reynolds stars in the sci-fi thriller that centers on a terminally ill billionaire who buys a chance for eternal life through an experimental underground medical procedure which transfers his…

EXCLUSIVE: Tarsem and Ryan Reynolds are in talks to team on Selfless, the co-production between Endgame Entertainment and FilmDistrict. Based on a script by Carriers scribes Alex and David Pastor, the thriller focuses on a wealthy older man who discovers he's dying and pays to have his mind transplanted into a younger…