7TH & 8TH UPDATE, Monday 2:28 PM after 9:27 AM post with chart: Sony has officially reported that Hotel Transylvania 2’s opening weekend is $48.46M, which makes it Adam Sandler’s highest opening of his career on a FSS basis, pegging above 2005’s The Longest Yard ($47.6M). The animated sequel fanged a slew of…
After three up weekends in a row, September moviegoing continues to clickety-clack with Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 2set to take No. 1 with a FSS in the low $30Ms, maybe $40M at 3,752 theaters. The studio will be very happy if they hit $32M; in fact that would make it their highest opening calendar year to…
The Green Inferno marks Eli Roth’s return to feature directing for the first time since Hostel: Part II. From the look of things, the college students who thought they would visit the Amazon forest to save the natives from global catastrophe are greeted instead with something more along the lines of “Guess who’s…
An increasing bottleneck in the European exhibition sector — especially in France — sees as many as 15 theatrical releases a week, giving few movies the chance to separate themselves from the crowd, build and play out. French sales, finance and distrbution powerhouse Wild Bunch is eyeing a solution. In October, the…
Hostel director Eli Roth has launched a Vine contest online to scare up new international talent, with the grand prize winner getting a shot at developing an original idea with Roth and Chronicle/The Blacklist producers Davis Entertainment. “I wanted to create a global contest that anyone with a smart phone can enter,”…
Open Road Films released a full-length trailer to Eli Roth‘s highly anticipated The Green Inferno, opening on Sept. 5.  The first teaser last month showed us images of a girl, lost in the Amazon, being prepared for dinner by a local tribesman.  Here we see the story in full: A group of privileged New York City college…
Open Road Films is set to release the Eli Roth-directed The Green Infernoon September 5 after acquiring it at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. It’s Roth’s first directing gig since 2007’s Hostel 2, and he co-wrote the horror thriller with Guillermo Amoedo and produced the pic, which follows a group of students who…
Open Road Films will release Eli Roth‘s The Green Infernoon September 5. Roth directed, co-wrote (with Guillermo Amoedo) and produced the horror thriller which follows a group of students who travel from New York City to the Amazon to save a tribe from extinction. Unfortunately, when the group arrives they are taken…
Open Road Films is acquiring The Green Inferno, the horror thriller written and directed by Eli Roth that premiered over the weekend in Toronto in the Midnight Madness section. I’m hearing there is no minimum guarantee with a gross corridor but that the pic will get a wide release. Roth’s movies always make money…
Eli Roth has recently been producing, writing and acting, but The Green Inferno will mark his return behind the camera after his last feature as director, 2007’s Hostel: Part II. Worldview Entertainment has boarded the horror thriller to finance and produce. Roth just finished starring in Nicolás López’ earthquake…
