Le Vision Pictures USA has acquired the rights to Jayson Rothwell’s Zodiac: The Year Of The Snake and has brought on-board Bernie Goldmann (The Last Witch Hunter; 300) to produce under his banner Goldmann Pictures. The high-octane story follows a group of international peace keepers, who are inspired by the 12 Chinese…

UPDATED WRITE-THRU, 4:20 PM Monday: Thanks largely to the record-setting early rollout of the new James Bond adventure Spectre, international box office is up 30% across the Top 10 studio titles compared with last week, a far scream from Stateside’s Halloween weekend, which was the lowest-grossing frame of the year so…

While this weekend saw a pre-Halloween bloodbath at the domestic box office, activity in international markets was less fear-inducing. This weekend was a last bastion beachfront where films had a chance to motor ahead before James Bond and Spectre take center stage. That led to some intriguing developments — but not…

FINAL UPDATE, MONDAY 3:30 PM PT: Director Ridley Scott's The Martian, which returned to the top of international and domestic box office in its 4th weekend, is within shouting distance of $400 million worldwide with $385.66M. The 20th Century Fox picture's foreign cume is $218.47M and domestic comes to $166.19M…

5TH UPDATE, Sunday 8:20 AM Final: In a weekend with distributors offering five wide entries, most of which were paltry, audiences decided what was old was new for them as 20th Century Fox’s The Martian shot its way back to No. 1 with an estimated $15.9M and $166.4M. Sony’s Goosebumps chased behind in No. 2 with a…

If there was ever a weekend when distributors were looking to cannibalize one another this is the one, as five fresh wide releases are hitting theaters. What gives? One reason is that most distributors want to avoid Halloween next weekend (October 30-November 1), which is falling on a Saturday. The holiday is expected…

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Engelbrecht, who plays the Witch Queen in Vin Diesel’s Friday opener The Last Witch Hunter, has landed her next gig. She is set for a key role in director Claudio Faeh’s indie World War II thriller The Fourth Reich, from writers Robert Henny & Don Michael Paul. The pic revolves around British Special…

Lionsgate has confirmed what everyone already figured was going to happen: the studio is sending The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 to Comic-Con next month to drum up hype for the lucrative franchise’s final pic which is due out November 2o. The Hall H event July 9 will include another Lionsgate fall offering — the…

The witching hour will begin a year from now. An October 23, 2015, release has been set for Summit Entertainment’s supernatural actioner The Last Witch Hunter, from director Breck Eisner. The pic follows an immortal witch hunter (Vin Diesel) who partners with his natural enemy, a female witch, to stop the covens of…

EXCLUSIVE: German actress Julie Engelbrecht is set to make her American film debut in Lionsgate/Summit’s The Last Witch Hunter opposite Vin Diesel, Michael Caine, Elijah Wood, and Rose Leslie. Diesel leads the fantasy actioner as an immortal witch hunter who teams with his natural enemy, a witch, to stop the covens of…

Vin Diesel starrer The Last Witch Hunter has added Elijah Wood to its cast as filming ramps up to start this month. Pic tracks an immortal witch hunter who teams up with his natural enemy, a witch, to save NYC from a coven-conjured plague. The supernatural action film helmed by Breck Eisner also stars Rose Leslie and…

Summit Entertainment has hired Oscar-nominated scribe Melisa Wallack to do a polish on the Vin Diesel actioner The Last Witch Hunter, to be directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara, The Crazies). Wallack earned her first Academy Award nomination for last year’s Dallas Buyers Club, which she co-scripted with Craig Borten…