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7TH Write thru, Monday PM:  Sony/MGM’s The Magnificent Seven counts a worldwide total to date of $59.3M with an overseas take including MGM territories at $24.6M. Stateside is riding off with $34.7M. Though $300K lighter than yesterday’s domestic estimate, all records still hold: director Antoine Fuqua’s best…

After box office forecasts were off wildly last weekend, bringing 2016 ticket sales to a three-day low of $88.6M, there’s a once-burned/twice-learned feeling among distribution executives heading into this Friday as September’s second-biggest title after Sully, Sony/MGM’s The Magnificent Seven, hits theaters. Some…

5TH UPDATE, Sunday AM: What happened this weekend at the box office to completely deep-six three wide releases? The casualties: Blair Witch (Lionsgate, est. $9.65M, $5M production cost, mid-to-high $20M), Bridget Jones’s Baby (Universal/Working Title/Miramax/StudioCanal, est. $8.2M, $35M production cost) and  <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/snowden/" id="auto-tag_snowden"…

After accumulating $42.7M through yesterday, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Sully is expected to remain at a high altitude in its second weekend, potentially veering Lionsgate’s horror follow-up Blair Witch off a course toward No. 1. Sully‘s midweek momentum — Tuesday was up 54% over Monday with $4.6M — points toward…

UPDATE, TUESDAY AM, with actuals: There were a handful of upward swings in the Monday actuals, including on two titles from Warner Bros as the studio closed out a strong overseas weekend frame. Clint Eastwood opener Sully swooped in on an extra $1M to land the overseas debut at $10.5M. Much as American Sniper did in…

7TH UPDATE, 2:12 PM: Director Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully landed with a smooth $35 million this past weekend for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow. Another newcomer, When The Bough Breaks from Sony, wasn’t as lucky, dipping to $14.2M off of industry estimates of $14.8M-$15M after suffering a bigger than…

Tom Hanks is ubiquitous on the interview circuit this week, his pitches for Sully representing a master class in movie promotion. He drops witty sound bites and responds to tedious questions as though they were insightful. If Hanks' responses seem vaguely familiar, however, it's because he has played essentially the…

As the 41st Toronto Film Festival gets underway, Fox Searchlight executives and their allies are bracing, or should be, for what is almost sure to be the next great fight over their prize contender, Nate Parker's The Birth Of A Nation: The reality debate. Here's one way to frame the main question. Is Parker's film…

Historically, the weekend after Labor Day can be a death zone at the box office. But that’s only if distributors fail to push out intriguing titles. However, in recent years, the majors have come to realize that moviegoers are yearning to get back to the cinema after taking a rest over Labor Day, whether it’s to…

Everyone likely only thinks they know the story of the so-called Miracle on the Hudson in 2009, when Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger piloted a U.S. Airways commuter jet with 155 people onboard into a crash landing smack in the middle of the Hudson River just a few minutes after takeoff. No one died. Sullenberger…

Well, here’s something you don’t see often during Q&As with actors promoting their new movies! Tom Hanks, star of Clint Eastwood’s excellent new drama Sully, stopped his own Q&A at the Telluride Film Festival this morning to heap lavish praise on someone else’s movie. The unexpected plug  for La La Land was sure to…

It was a very good morning for producer/director Clint Eastwood’s Sully at today’s 10AM Telluride Film Festival screening. The true story of heroic airline pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger’s 2009 crash landing into the Hudson River is having its World Premiere this weekend in advance of its U.S. release next Friday…