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When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

7th UPDATE, Monday, 1:42 PM: Rovio and Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie, as Deadline predicted yesterday, ended up with a three-day opening of under $39M. However, its final debut gross of $38.1M won the weekend’s pecking order and fly past Captain America: Civil War (in its third weekend in play). Disney has something to…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU, MONDAY 12:36 PM: Bryan Singer's fourth turn at the X-Men helm was unleashed in 76 offshore markets this weekend, notably excluding Korea, China and Japan. The debut X-Men: Apocalypse frame cracked the $100 million mark with a final $101.5M (down from yesterday’s estimated $103.3M) from 20,796…

FINAL UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Monday, 12:12 PM: We are only awaiting on The Nice Guys grosses from Bloom (the movie is in previews right now), but all other tallies are in. Sony’s international debut of The Angry Birds Movie took off this weekend with $43M in 74 markets. In 37 of those, it grabbed the No. 1 perch. It also…

Has Sony's publicity team hatched a new Cannes Film Festival marketing trend? Rather than wait for the event to begin, the folks behind The Angry Birds Movie are strategically aiming to get out in front of the media before heads turn towards the red carpet. The festival kicks off officially tomorrow evening with Woody…

Rovio Animation's The Angry Birds Movie just landed a May 20 debut date in China which means it will now drop in North America day and date. The film will be marketed and brought to the cinemas throughout the country by 1905 Pictures and will have its China premiere at the Beijing National Stadium "Bird's Nest," which…

EXCLUSIVE: Fergal Reilly, who is making his directorial debut co-helming The Angry Birds Movie, has signed with UTA. The Irishman is a longtime storyboard artist with credits including Hotel Transylvania, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and its sequel as well as head of story at Sony Pictures Animation. Those…

Sony Pictures has locked in some hefty promotional partners for Rovio Animation’s’ The Angry Birds Movie with McDonald’s Corp. and French automaker Citroën leading the charge of about 100 partners worldwide. Sony says that overall, it is a $250M promo campaign for the film which debuts May 20. McDonald’s will launch a…

Dwight Yoakam has joined the cast of Sabyn Mayfield's directorial debut Boomtown. He joins the previously announced Tyler Riggs, Boyd Holbrook (Narcos), Rachel Brosnahan (House Of Cards) and Jocelin Donahue (Knight Of Cups). The project is currently shooting in Los Angeles. Boomtown follows one man’s journey, John…

Unless you’ve been off the grid since 2009, you probably are overfamiliar with Angry Birds, the so-simplistic game app that clinical studies have proved to be more addictive that opium. Well, probably. Now, finally, we get the first peek at Sony’s feature adaptation of the Finnish feathered friends that has been in the…

Clay Kaytis, who is making his directorial debut on Sony’s The Angry Birds Movie, has signed with WME. Kaytis was previously a head of animation at Disney with credits including Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph and Tangled. Angry Birds stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Hannibal Buress and Bill Hader…