Scoring a hat trick, Lionsgate has passed the $1B mark at the international box office for the third year in a row. The exact estimate after this frame is $1,000,302,862. That's largely off the wings of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 which now has an overseas cume of $334M. This weekend, Mockingjay added $16M…

Expendables 3 co-financier, Le Vision Pictures, is set to be the latest Chinese film company to set up shop Stateside with an LA-based operation. It will look to launch with a $200M fund geared towards making tentpoles for the global marketplace. While skepticism in Hollywood may be high over the glut of Chinese…

UPDATE, Monday, 3:35 PM: Overseas actuals have been logged for Lucy, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Hercules, Into The Storm, TMNT, The Fault In Their Stars, If I Stay, 22 Jump Street, Sex Tape, Deliver Us From Evil, Boyhood, How To Train Your Dragon 2, Let’s Be Cops, Step Up: All In, As Above, So Below, Transformers…

3rd UPDATE, Monday 12:46 PM: Final numbers are now in for The Expendables 3, Let’s Be Cops, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Guardians of the Galaxy, Into the Storm, Step Up All In, Hercules, Lucy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the animated How to Train Your Dragon 2, Boyhood, The Fault in Our Stars, and Neighbors. Sex…

The Expendables 3 is debuting this weekend in 40 territories including Russia, the UK, Mexico and Australia — and features a powerhouse ensemble that includes Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer and…

In a ruling that came as much as a surprise as bullets and one-liners flying in the Sylvester Stallone-led action franchise, Lionsgate today firmly shut down the online leaks it knows about of its upcoming The Expendables 3 pic. Less expected, the studio also widened its sphere of inquiry to some of the biggest tech…

Lionsgate says making London its international sales hub is a reflection of the “increasing globalization” of its business. The company has relocated from Santa Monica several key executives including Motion Picture Group EVPs of International Sales Wendy Reeds and Crystal Bourbeau. It’s also making a series of local…

The websites that Lionsgate says are making leaked versions of The Expendables 3 available have to stop immediately and could see their bank accounts seized, a federal judge ordered last night. "Lions Gate has established that it will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of immediate relief," said U.S. District…

A federal investigation has been opened into the source of the illegal downloads of Lionsgate action pic The Expendables 3, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE, has picked up the case after Lionsgate made calls to…

Last month, we saw a big swath of the Expendables 3 crew yukking it up during a massive stunt in Cannes. Today, they’re back with the first full-length trailer for the Millennium Films threequel. This episode reunites key cast members including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren…

When I exclusively reported earlier this month that Millennium Films was planning a massive stunt with the cast of The Expendables 3 storming the Croisette today, I had a feeling it would be rather extraordinary — but I didn’t know it would end up to be one of the most entertaining events I've attended in 17 years in…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the greatest assemblages of international star power — and muscle — that Cannes has ever seen, a baker’s dozen of Expendables 3 castmembers are set to hit town on Sunday, May 18 for a full day of events. Attending are Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Harrison Fo…