4TH UPDATE, SUNDAY, 10:20 AM: Nobody did it better than Bond this weekend as Spectre rolled over three new wide entries, taking No. 1 with a revised Sunday AM FSS projection of $35.4M, down 50% for a 10-day running cume of $130.7M. Imax kicked in $3.8M stateside. Spectre is ruling multiplexes abroad: Worldwide the…

Three new wide releases will hit theaters this Friday, but James Bond will judo chop them all. For Sony/MGM/Eon’s Spectre, a No. 1 opening weekend is not enough, so it’s going to take No. 1 again in its second go-round with $35M-$39M, a dip that’s between -45% and -50% per industry projections. That will make it…

The Warner Bros press notes for The 33, the movie about the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners, promise that the film delivers the “untold story.” Certainly that is the correct way to try to sell this film, which tells a story that a reported 1 billion people around the globe actually watched happening. We…

The American Film Institute has unveiled the rest of the lineup for its AFI Fest 2015 that kicks off November 5 with Universal’s Angelina Jolie-Pitt-directed By The Sea starring her and husband Brad Pitt. Organizers again have targeted prime awards-season slots to major world premieres, including Sony’s Will Smith…

Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next and The 33, directed by Patricia Riggen, are joining Sony’s Concussion as Centerpiece Galas at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.Where To Invade Next will screen on Saturday, November 7 a the Lloyd L. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian. The 33, starring Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro…

“That’s not a rock, that’s the heart of the mountain. She finally broke.” Warner Bros has dropped the official trailer for The 33, Patricia Riggen's film about the 2010 Chilean miner drama that trapped 33 men for 69 days at the bottom of a gold and copper mine in Copiapo, Chile. Antonio Banderas stars as Mario…

Alcon Entertainment has acquired North American and the majority of international distribution rights to The 33, the Patricia Riggen-directed drama about the 2010 Chilean mine disaster that trapped the miners for 69 days at the bottom of a gold and copper mine in 2010. Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche, Mario Casas…

The international trailer to The 33, Patricia Riggen’s film about the 2010 Chilean miner drama, has been released and there’s some haunting images here. Similar to how Oliver Stone brought us inside the Twin Towers during 9/11 in World Trade Center, Riggen thrusts us in the midst of the miners’ devastating…

Last year, the London Film Festival was bookended by a pair of Tom Hanks movies. This year, the fest is going in a different direction with opening- and closing-night films set during World War II. The event will open with The Imitation Game on October 8 and now has set David Ayer’s Fury as the capper on October 19…

EXCLUSIVE: Liana Liberato (Stuck in Love, Trust) has been cast in Relativity’s The Best Of Me, the Nicholas Sparks romance that James Marsden joined earlier this month replacing the late Paul Walker opposite Michelle Monaghan. Liberato will play the younger version of Monaghan’s character Amanda in the tale of two…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Byrne has signed on to star as Andre Sougarret in The 33, alongside Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche, Rodrigo Santoro and an award-winning international ensemble cast. Sougarret was the engineering genius who masterminded the miraculous rescue of the 33 trapped miners in Chile in 2010. He became a…

EXCLUSIVE: In what will be her first acting role since leaving network TV’s most-watched series NCIS, Cote De Pablo has been cast in The 33, the feature film based on the 2010 rescue of 33 Chilean miners after being trapped 69 days in the Copiapo gold and copper mine more than half an mile below the earth’s surface…