EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jason Clarke has signed with WME. The move comes as he has upcoming the WWII drama HHHH, opposite Rosamund Pike, and All I See Is You, opposite Blake Lively. Recent credits include Everest, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Terminator: Genisys and Zero Dark Thirty. Clarke had been repped by CAA. He will…

Paramount Pictures said today it has yanked the sequel known as Terminator 2 from its release schedule. It had been slated for May 19, 2017, but that spot now has been taken by Baywatch. This is not exactly a huge surprise, because even though Paramount stakes out the release dates, there was no movement on the second…

UPDATED 3:23 PM PT: All films (below) are updated with final grosses through the weekend ending Sunday. Only Disney reported final grosses on Monday; the rest of the studios waited until today. UPDATE, 4:15 PM PT: This was a pretty dour weekend at the international box office with the Top 3 titles off by 61% compared…

3rd UPDATE, 1:17 PM, PT: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Terminator: Genisys finals are in for Paramount, which saw both action sequels pass $300M internationally during the weekend. Final grosses are in 18 pictures so far. They include the three-time North American box office champ Straight Outta Compton, Hitma…

4TH UPDATE, MONDAY ACTUALS, 2:50 PM PT: International weekend actuals have rolled in from the studios with a confirmed $27M on the frame’s No. 1 movie, Terminator Genisys. That’s down a touch from Sunday’s projected $27.4M. (Early estimates see Monday doing $10M+.) The whole haul comes from China where the…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: I am a collector of movie cycles. When I started in the movie business, Hollywood was in its ’70s indie cycle (but not…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY 3:45 PM PT: Actuals are in from the studios, with Sony’s Pixels confirmed at $21.03M, down slightly from the $21.4M projected yesterday, and performing solidly in Latin America with many markets (including China, a co-financier) still on deck. That film came in 6th overall at the international box of…

3RD UPDATE, MONDAY, 2 PM PT: Actuals have rolled in from the studios with some (very) slight shifts afoot. Disney/Marvel’s Ant-Man dropped its opening overseas final to $55.4M from a projected $56.4M, giving it a weekend total of $112.6M, off slightly from the $114.4M estimated on Sunday. Still, it’s the No. 2 movie…

Another blockbuster opening, another arrow in FX’s quiver. The network group has procured exclusive U.S. TV premiere rights to Minions, coming off the second-biggest domestic opening for an animated film. The Despicable Me spinoff banked $115.7 million in North America and has passed $400 million worldwide. FX Networks…

3rd UPDATE, 4:44 PM: Paramount Pictures’ just reported grosses for Terminator: Genisys with a revised $46.5M from 60 territories. The international cume stands at $155.5M. So worldwide, this big-budget picture has roughly grossed only $224.3M worldwide. Not great. Also, final grosses are in for all titles. 3rd UPDATE…

5TH UPDATE 3:19 PM after 4th 7:06 AM post: The Pixar girl aka Inside Out took victory out of the dinos’ jaws and hit the No. 1 spot at the Fourth of July weekend box office with an estimated $29.77M, kicking Jurassic World to second place with $29.2M. For a second there, especially with Minions on the horizon this…

4th UPDATE, Monday, 12:33 PST: Sunday estimates for all films seemed to slide slightly or plateau over night with only a handful of exceptions, including the two big animated films in the international marketplace. Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out grabbed $2.5M more than anticipated while Universal’s latest in the franchise M…