6TH UPDATE, MONDAY ACTUALS, 3:20 PM: Paramount’s SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge Out Of Water came in with $635K less than its weekend estimate reported yesterday of $56M. Still, it’s a great gross for this time of year, especially when there aren’t a lot of kids out of school. Per Rentrak, only 1% of all K-12 and…

Seventh Son, which premieres next weekend, dropped one last ad  in the starting minutes of the Super Bowl, and here it is above. The fantasy film stars Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges, and is coming from Legendary. It’s directed by Sergey…

3RD UPDATE, Wednesday 5 AM PT: International actuals took their time arriving after the long holiday weekend in the U.S. Most studios have now reported, and in some cases have included grosses through Monday. There were no massive fluctuations, but some of the Oscar nominees including The Theory Of Everything, Boyhood…

2Nd UPDATE: : International actuals are in from most of the studios with a few figure shifts. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies came in higher than projected with a total $54M weekend and a cume of $504.65M. Disney's Into The Woods, previously at a projected $1M for the weekend, nearly doubled that to take a…

Universal has unveiled a trailer for the Jeff Bridges fantasy film Seventh Son, kicking off a five-month marketing challenge for the long-delayed big budget actioner. The YA book-inspired adventure directed by Sergei Bodrov has been teased now for over a year in fits and starts, suffering numerous setbacks since first…

BREAKING: Thomas Tull’s Legendary East said that China Film Co Ltd. has made an eight-figure equity investment in two Legendary Entertainment pics: the Jeff Bridges starrer Seventh Son and Warcraft, the pic based on the Blizzard online game that Duncan Jones is writing and directing. It marks the first time China Film…

Nearing the end of its best year ever at the domestic box office, Universal announced a slew of release dates today. The recently shaken-up studio has set its reboot of The Mummy for April 22, 2016, and Seventh Son, the Jeff Bridges-Julianne Moore fantasy that Legendary picked up from Warner Bros in August, will bow…

BREAKING: Seventh Son, the Sergei Bedrov-directed fantasy that stars Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, is on the move. The film, backed by Legendary Pictures, is moving away from Warner Bros and will be released by Universal Pictures, where Legendary’s Thomas Tull made a new deal. The film had a January 2014 release…

Jeff Bridges battles his old Lebowski lady friend Julianne Moore in the fantasy actioner Seventh Son, from Legendary Pictures and WB. Ben Barnes stars as the newbie apprentice getting a crash course in fighting evil in the CG-filled adaptation of Joseph Delaney’s The Wardstone Chronicle books. Alicia Vikander also…

The official schedule isn’t out until tomorrow, but expect a big July 20 presence from Legendary at Comic-Con this year. Even with the split between Thomas Tull’s company and Warner Bros seemingly inevitable, Legendary will be holding branded panels for Godzilla, Seventh Son and other projects in the cavernous Hall H…

Warner Bros and Legendary‘s fantasy epic Seventh Son had already weathered one major release date shift from February 2013 to October 2013 before the bankruptcy of VFX house Rhythm & Hues threw its visual effects schedule into chaos. Today WB announced that the Jeff Bridges starrer has been delayed yet again — this…

Warner Bros said today that it will release Legendary Pictures’ Seventh Son on Feb. 15, 2013. The drama based on Joseph Delaney’s young-adult novel series stars Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore and is directed by Sergei Bodrov. A couple of weeks ago we reported that The Chronicles of Narnia regular Ben Barnes was…