UPDATED with closing stock price. Sorry, haters, MoviePass has a bit more to say. Its parent company, Helios & Matheson Analytics, filed a very brief 8-K with the SEC this morning but it wasn’t the kind of gloom and doom the company has trafficked in lately. Today’s update said the company has already paid back the…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions' The First Purge has cleaned up over $100M globally, becoming the third film in the micro-budget franchise to reach the milestone. Through yesterday, The First Purge has also become the highest-grossing title in the franchise at the international box office. It’s…

In what is arguably unprecedented at Comic-Con, one panel will spotlight both a franchise’s film and TV editions. Blumhouse will be staging a Purge universe panel on Saturday, July 21 from 5:15-6:15 PM in room 6BCF. Producer Jason Blum, Purge creator James DeMonaco, and the director of the premiere episode of the new…

TUESDAY AM UPDATE, writethru with actuals: Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man And The Wasp took flight in 41 offshore markets over the weekend session, supersizing to $85.9M for its international box office bow. The Paul Rudd/Evangeline Lilly sequel buzzed in about 45% ahead of the first film and landed above Sunday estimates as…

6th Writethru, Sunday: Disney is seeing Ant-Man and the Wasp landing near the lower end of its tracking with an estimated $76M which is $500K shy of where rivals see it after a $23.6M Saturday that’s 31% down from Friday, a sharper decline than many were expecting which was around -15%. This now marks a 33%…

2nd update, July 5th AM: Overall it was a solid Independence Day at the box office with the top 20 pics clearing $43.3M, +27% over Tuesday’s business. New entry The First Purge from Universal/Blumhouse earned an estimated $9.4M in 3rd place, making 73% of its business yesterday which also includes $2.5M Tuesday night…

Look for Disney-Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp to overperform. That’s our gut feeling at this point in time. While one particular tracking service at the high-end is showing $85M, it would not be a shocker if the Peyton Reed-directed follow-up to the 2015 title heads toward $100M. Really. Global start is estimated to…

In telling the story of Universal’s The First Purge, which introduces the inauguration of the day when laws are unenforced and pent-up violence unleashed, director Gerard McMurray found inspiration in pulling from real-life events to underscore the film’s themes of abuse of power and resistance. “Right now we're…

Who knew the Purge could have been just a big, fun party? Don’t worry, it doesn’t stay happy and non-violent for long, as this first trailer for The First Purge gives a deathly blow by blow of how America’s deadliest holiday came to be. Amidst a general backdrop of protest and division not unlike our current age, the…

Blumhouse has titled its next Purge horror movie which it has slated for July 4 via Universal: The First Purge.  Essentially, it sounds like it will be more prequel than sequel with the logline reading “Welcome to the movement that began as a simple experiment: The First Purge.” The storyline further reads, “To push…