UPDATE Monday, 5:51 PM: Actuals are in and Lionsgate’s second in the franchise Insurgent took a higher than expected $1.3M overall, bringing it tally to $48.3M (up from the estimated $47M). So worldwide, it just tips the $100M mark, according to Lionsgate. The final numbers also revealed that Disney’s Cinderella…

EuropaCorp has reported a huge jump in Q3 turnover thanks largely to international sales of Taken 3, which to date has grossed about $270M worldwide. Earnings across the French major were 62.4M euros ($71M), an 88% increase on the same quarter last year. International sales amounted to 33.8M euros ($38.5M), mostly…

Deadline reported grosses on Jupiter Ascending on Sunday at $32.5M and that estimate rose on Monday to $33.8M in Warner Bros' actuals. There are still Australia, China and Japan releases to come, but with an $18.7M opening domestically and with Fifty Shades Of Grey teed up to begin its day-and-date rollout tomorrow, Ju…

2ND UPDATE, TUESDAY 4 AM PT: Actuals are in for the international weekend with no major discrepancies save for a big drop on Taken 3. After Sunday’s report of a $57.2M total in non-Fox markets, the confirmed total came in at $39.8M. The difference was down to an incorrect cume provided to Fox by EuropaCorp for those…

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…

To protect its Second Amendment rights, a handgun manufacturer is blasting Liam Neeson for exercising his First Amendment rights. "There's too many f*cking guns out there," the actor said recently. "I think the (US) population is like 320 million. There's over 300 million guns privately owned in America. I think it's…

2ND UPDATE, TUESDAY 3:21 AM PT: Actuals have been reported from most of the studios, with very few discrepancies amongst the major titles. The Top 5 remain the same as projected on Sunday, save for a tie-break between Exodus: Gods And Kings and China’s Miss Granny with the latter landing at No. 4 and the former at No…

EXCLUSIVE: After EuropaCorp generated another hit in Taken 3, Luc Besson and Christophe Lambert’s company has hired Barry Sonnenfeld to direct Nine Lives, a high-concept comedy scripted by Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. The film is about a workaholic businessman who has to figure his way out of a dilemma: A…

UPDATED FINAL, 2:03PM: Full Monday actuals per Rentrak are in, and the year’s box office, through 11 days, is at $379.4M, 1.1% behind last year (that’s $4.27M behind). What’s up? While it’s too early to sound the alarm; it turns out that this weekend’s haul of $126.57M — despite Taken 3‘ s great opening — was off 10%…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba and Taken 3 star Maggie Grace will lead the cast of feature drama Showing Roots, about a small Southern town in 1977 whose balance is turned upside down when the slavery miniseries Roots hits the airwaves. Aduba and Grace will play two denizens of a local beauty parlor…

Liam Neeson’s Bryan Mills character didn’t kill his wife — and the cops don’t care.  Sound familiar? No, it’s not a reboot of 1993’s The Fugitive, it’s Taken 3.  Seriously, this ex-CIA agent truly wants to live a normal life: As seen in the trailer, he’s likes to cook dinner for the family, evident in his chopping of…