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EXCLUSIVE: Offshore audiences are checking in to Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation as rollout expands this weekend. HT3 had already bowed in Australia on June 28 to capitalize on school breaks, and in its first 16 days of release has surpassed the total gross of HT2, setting a franchise…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony/Blumhouse's Insidious: The Last Key has cracked the $100M mark at the international box office. This makes the 4th title in the series the only one to pass the century milestone. The current overseas cume is $100.14M with $167M worldwide to become the franchise's highest grossing title both offshore…

Sony Pictures International Productions is moving into Argentina with La Quietud, its first local-language co-production there. The film hails from Pablo Trapero, who won the 2015 Silver Lion Best Director prize in Venice for El Clan. Sony Pictures Releasing International has taken all distribution rights to La Quietud…

Sony Pictures International Productions, the local language production arm of Sony Pictures, has boarded French-Indian-Belgian co-production The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir starring Bérénice Béjo, Barkhad Abdi, Erin Moriarty and Abel Jafri. Sony Pictures Releasing International will release the title in the UK…

China's Gone With The Bullets is primed to be one of the biggest films of the year — and has some thinking it could be the one to beat Transformers: Age Of Extinction's all-time Middle Kingdom box office record when it releases on December 18. But a funny thing happened on the way to the movie's premiere as even…

Comedy legend Mel Brooks has been tapped to voice Vlad in Sony Pictures Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2. He’ll play the very old and grumpy vampire father to Adam Sandler’s Dracula. The sequel to Sony’s 2012 family film sees old-school supernatural meet modern-day cool when Vlad turns up at the hotel for an impromptu…

Jiang Wen's upcoming Gone With The Bullets is on its way to blockbuster status in China — a month before its release. At a press conference this week in Beijing, China.org reports it was announced that the film has already pre-sold 120M yuan ($19.6M) worth of tickets. IMAX pre-sales have also broken the midnight premie…

TrustNordisk has sold the rights to Kristian Levring's The Salvation to Universal Pictures International Entertainment in a number of international territories, including Latin America, Eastern Europe and South Africa. The pic, which screened out of competition at Cannes, follows a Danish settler (Mads Mikkelsen) in…

Highlights: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (SONY) nets $116M for $277M cume; Rio 2 (FOX) adds $25.6M for a $290.4M cume; The Other Woman (FOX) toasts $19.5M in 3rd frame; Captain America: The Winter Soldier (DIS) now 5th biggest Western release ever in China with $115.8M; Frozen (DIS) has best frame yet in Japan; Divergent…

Humans are capable of screaming as loud as 120 decibels, whereas a car alarm is around 75 decibels, and a typical conversation around 45, UK cinema chain VUE Entertainment tells us today. So, in anticipation of the “hordes” of screaming fans expected at theaters this weekend for One Direction: This Is Us 3D, VUE has…

Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute Stalingrad in Russia, with a date to be set. The first Russian-made feature to go out in IMAX 3D is an epic love story set during the devastating WWII battle for Stalingrad that lasted more than six months and ended with the German army surrendering in 1943. Machete…

‘Arthur Christmas’ Slays ‘Em In The UK Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman's Arthur Christmas jumped to the top of the UK box office this weekend – in its fourth week of release. This bit of holiday magic came courtesy of a £1.9 million weekend take for a cume of £11.5 million. The film has been holding steady in…