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EXCLUSIVE: After the success of their micro-budget thriller collaboration The Boy Next Door, Universal Pictures has re-teamed with Jennifer Lopez on Mothers I'd Like To…, a comedy pitch that will be developed as a star vehicle for Lopez. They are keeping mum on a logline, but I'm told it's Bridesmaids meets First Wives…

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…

Jennifer Lopez stars in The Boy Next Door as a teacher estranged from her husband who falls into a hot affair with a neighbor teen before it all goes bad. As I say in my video review above, the film opened strongly this weekend, and Lopez gives a solid-enough performance, but that’s not my problem with the movie…

ACTUALS, MONDAY PM: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow was slightly higher in the three-day actuals reported today with $64.6M and a $200.4M running domestic cume in its fifth frame (vs. yesterday’s weekend estimate of $64.3M and $200.1M). Originally, Warner Bros. was expecting to make $17.28M on Sunday, but their fall…

It was the tale of two stars at the weekend box office, one who opened a film — Jennifer Lopez with Universal’s The Boy Next Door at $15M — and one who tanked — Johnny Depp with Lionsgate’s Mortdecai at $4.1M. The discrepancy between the two films showed one star, Lopez, who kept it cheap and met her audience's wants…

EXCLUSIVE: Richard Linklater has tapped Step Up All In star Ryan Guzman for That’s What I’m Talking About, the baseball movie he’s assembling following his acclaimed time lapse drama Boyhood. Guzman has landed a lead role in the 1980s-set film about a college freshman who moves into a fraternity-like baseball house…

A divorced teacher's night of weakness with the young neighbor who befriends her impressionable son goes all kinds of wrong in this Blumhouse thriller. Here's the first trailer for The Boy Next Door, starring Jennifer Lopez as said educator and Ryan Guzman as the teenager who becomes obsessed with her. John Corbett…

Nearing the end of its best year ever at the domestic box office, Universal announced a slew of release dates today. The recently shaken-up studio has set its reboot of The Mummy for April 22, 2016, and Seventh Son, the Jeff Bridges-Julianne Moore fantasy that Legendary picked up from Warner Bros in August, will bow…

EXCLUSIVE: John Corbett has been cast in Blumhouse and Universal‘s The Boy Next Door, about a recently divorced MILF (Jennifer Lopez) whose affair with the teenage neighbor kid goes very wrong. Corbett will play Lopez’s ex-husband in the pic, which The Fast and the Furious helmer Rob Cohen is in negotiations to…