TUESDAY UPDATE, with actuals: Coming in slightly lower than the Saturday projection of $100M through Sunday, Universal's Fifty Shades Freed roped $96.5M in its international box office bow this weekend. The performance, while a breath below the Sunday estimate, is ahead of pre-weekend calls which had the threequel…

Update Sunday AM: Universal is reporting $38.6M for its BDSM romance Fifty Shades Freed this morning which is lower than what many were seeing yesterday at $40M, but toward the top of where earlier week tracking pegged it. Still the bigger scream for Fifty Shades Freed is overseas where the pic has tied up $98.1M for…

Now in his 80s, the latest turn in Clint Eastwood’s remarkable career sees the producer-director taking on real-life heroes and situations to make his movies. There was the massive hit American Sniper, then the story of hero airline pilot Sully, and now perhaps his riskiest bet yet in The 15:17 to Paris. This is the…

Fifty Shades Freed, the last title in the E.L. James BDSM romance trilogy revolving around business magnate Christian Grey and young Anastasia Steele, will have something to scream about at the box office this weekend. The threequel’s estimated global opening of $113 million-$130 million will propel the franchise past…

Well before Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther truly gets 2018 going at the box office with an $85M-plus start, the pre-Valentine’s Day weekend of Feb. 9-11 looks to be a strong one with Universal’s adult trilogy finale Fifty Shades Freed leading the pack with a $37M to $40M-plus opening.

On the high-end, that’s a great sta…

Clint Eastwood has successfully appealed the rating for Warner Bros’ upcoming movie The 15:17 to Paris, which originally had been classified with an R rating. It now will be PG-13. The decision came Wednesday, according to the Classification and Rating appeals board. Deadline hears that the reason for the producers…

Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 To Paris is the next film from the director to deal with the story of real-life heroes — and this time he’s got the actual men playing themselves. On August 21, 2015, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone thwarted a…

In the inaugural episode of Deadline’s New Hollywood podcast, we welcome actor Sinqua Walls, who has been seen in Power, Once Upon a Time and Friday Night Lights. On the film side, he appears in the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed The 15:17 To Paris. In addition to talking about his mellow experience working with the…

EXCLUSIVE: McKeon/Myones Entertainment has brought aboard author and American hero Alek Skarlatos for representation. Skarlatos, along with his childhood friends Spencer Stone and Anthony Sadler, thwarted a terrorist attack aboard a train bound for Paris from Amsterdam in August of 2015. The three later wrote a book Th…

Clint Eastwood's drama The 15:17 to Paris from Warner Bros/Village Roadshow will open worldwide on Feb. 9, 2018.

The pic centers around the real-life heroes who derailed a terrorist attack during a highspeed train ride. The announcement was made today by Sue Kroll, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, War…

EXCLUSIVE: Sinqua Walls has been cast in Client Eastwood’s upcoming biopic The 15:17 To Paris from Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. It’s based on the novel The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train, and Three American Heroes by Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, Spencer Stone and Jeffrey E. Stern about…

Judy Greer and The Office alum Jenna Fischer are set for in the upcoming biopic The 15:17 To Paris, the next project from director Clint Eastwood, which Warner Bros will distribute. The pic, which recounts the 2015 incident where three Americans on a Paris-bound train, thwart an attempted terrorist attack, will also…