4th UPDATE, 2:33 PM PT: Universal, Sony and Lionsgate have weighed in, so we have nine more titles reporting (see below for final numbers on all films). 3RD UPDATE, 12:45 PM PT: Actuals are coming in for the international weekend with Disney, Paramount, Fox and Warner Bros reporting. There were no major…

Warner Bros.’ If I Stay grossed $1.1M in late nights which began at 7 PM — a strong showing for this picture based on a YA novel and starring Chloe Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass 1 and 2, Carrie). For comparisons, last weekend’s YA offering The Giver opened at 8 PM, grossed $750K and went on to gross $12.3M for the weekend. Th…

It has been a season of big bets for Namit Malhotra and his Prime Focus World. First, Prime acquired DAX, which provides digital services for the studios. Then it merged with Oscar-winning U.K. visual-effects giant Double Negative, creating what the combined operation calls <a title="Global VFX Firm Prime Focus Gets…

When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez get together, mischief always ensues. I’ve confirmed that although Tarantino hasn’t started shooting the ensemble Western The Hateful Eight, he has managed to shoot a teaser trailer that will precede his pal Rodriguez’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Tarantino confirmed…

Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller returned to Comic-Con with Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, the next month’s sequel to their 2005 graphic novel-based groundbreaker — and already began stumping for a threequel. “Robert and I are already talking about Sin City 3. so you'd better show up to 2,” Miller told the Hall H…

EXCLUSIVE: Dimension Films is planning a big splash for its Aug. 22 release Sin City: A Dame To Kill For down at San Diego’s Comic-Con. In addition to the film’s Hall H presentation on Saturday, July 26 from 2:50pm – 3:50pm with directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller and actors Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin and…

Dimension has unveiled a new trailer for Robert Rodriguez‘s and Frank Miller‘s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, adapted from Miller’s neo-noir graphic novels. The ultra-violent action crime thriller weaves two Sin City stories together into one hard-boiled narrative pitting the city’s thugs, lowlifes, and femme fatales…

Apparently it’s a little too risqué for the MPAA. The Hollywood studios’ trade group has voiced its disapproval of the poster for the upcoming sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For that features Eva Green draped in a strategically placed sheer white gown. We’re told it was nixed "for nudity — curve of under breast and…

It’s been nine years since Frank Miller’s neo-noir graphic novels came to big-screen life. Now Dimension Films is releasing the follow-up. Eva Green stars in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For as Ava, a character Miller described as "every man's most glorious dreams come true [and] every man's darkest nightmares." She is…

Dark Shadows' star Eva Green has joined the burgeoning cast of  Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. Green will play Ava Lord, the deadly muse from Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name in the Dimension Film's movie. Ava is "every man's most glorious dreams come true, she's also every man's darkest nightmares," said…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Garner has joined the cast of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which is now filming in Austin at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios. Garner, an up-and-comer whose credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, will play a young stripper…

Ross Lincoln is a Deadline contributor. Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven and Juno Temple have been cast in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, the Weinstein Company confirmed today. No information was available about their roles, but they join returning stars Jessica Alba, Michael Madsen, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, Mickey Rourke…