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6th Update, Sunday 8AM: The success of this weekend at the box office isn’t about post-election blues, rather it’s about programming a variety of titles in a pre-holiday frame that appeal to varying demos. It’s the ideal set-up that many distribution executives crave. Couple that with a Veterans Day Friday that had…

With Veterans Day falling on a Friday, it’s bound to be another big weekend at the box office after last weekend’s overall ticket sales surged +117% to $191 million over the previous pre-Halloween period. The holiday brings with it 52% of all K-12 schools off and another 30% of U.S. colleges on break according to…

“It’s not my son. It’s just a body that I feed and wash and clothe.” Setting aside the inherent sadness of that quote, here is the first trailer for Shut In, starring Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt and Jacob Tremblay. Two-time Oscar nominee Watts plays a child psychologist whose husband was killed and son (Charlie Heaton)…

Screen Gems has scheduled its corset-clad fighting femme film, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for a Feb. 19, 2016 release.  The film will face off against EuropaCorp’s thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is based on the 2009 Seth Grahame-Smith novel which mixes the zombie genre…

Oliver Platt and four others have been cast in EuropaCorp and Lava Bear Pictures’ thriller Shut In starring Naomi Watts, rounding out the cast of the pic that recently began filming in Montreal before moving to other locations. It already has a February 19, 2016 release date. Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Medium‘s…